One Year on the Road

When we bought our RV, we were given a year’s membership to Thousand Trails, an RV resorts club. It gives us 30 free overnights per year, and after that it’s only $3 per night. The catch is it has to…

When we left Linda’s Land near Port Arena, she headed north back to Eugene, and Kelly followed us to our next destination on the Russian River (near Cloverdale). Even though Cloverdale is directly east of Port Arena, there is no…

Point Arena is a small, cozy village 35 miles south of Mendocino on the Northern California coast. It has a quaint downtown strip that includes the basics: café, organic market, thrift shop, bar, garage, and an incredibly nice library. Linda’s land,…

Then… I first came to Mendocino in 1976. After graduating college with a degree in theater and no idea what to do with it, I’d decided I couldn’t survive one more Ann Arbor winter. I bought a used Dodge van,…

By the time we got to Linda’s land near Point Arena on Friday, we were so exhausted by three days of white-knuckle driving that we were ready to stay put for a while. Linda had to leave the next morning…