• Prototypes …

    When I’m building stuff that doesn’t quite turn out right, I have a ready-made excuse: “It’s just a prototype … if it doesn’t work, we can throw it away and start over.” So here’s my latest round of not-quite-right prototypes. New table: The campervan came with a tiny, near useless 12″ x 28″ table and…

  • The Free State of George Floyd

    The Free State of George Floyd

    Controversial. Interesting. For background, read: ‘It’s for the people’: how George Floyd Square became a symbol of resistance – and healing | George Floyd | The Guardian or The Changing Faces of George Floyd Square: Dispatch from Minneapolis – Reason.com

  • Wrapping up the Bayou Tour

    Wrapping up the Bayou Tour

    We focused on bayous and wildlife refuges on this trip. The woods and hills in the south are nice, but not so different than the woods and hills a few miles from my house, so we figure that if we want to camp in the woods we can do that without driving a thousand miles.…

  • Louisiana

    Louisiana

    We took the back roads through Southern Arkansas and Northern Louisiana. The really back roads. A hundred or two miles through the Ozarks and Ouachitas, up hills and down hollers. Twenty-five mile per hour curves for dozens of miles. We went from unnumbered paved roads, to unnumbered gravel roads, to unnumbered roads where the pavement…

  • Missouri Nice

    We often end up in State Parks when traveling and needing a place to stay for the night. I’d rather be a bit closer to nature and don’t mind supporting public parks by feeding them a few bucks. On this trip we’ve hit a state park in Missouri and a couple in Arkansas so far,…

  • Managing Data While Traveling

    We’re finally back on the road again, this time heading south to find something interesting in Louisiana or thereabouts. Part of our pre-trip activity is to set our devices up to minimize data usage. We’ve always had low limits on our cell phone data plans, so staying online without burning through our plan has been…