We have adopted a ritual that our friend Bill Pollak started on his roadtrips, which is to play Willie Nelson’s … Continue reading On the road again….

  In December we completed a loop from Michigan to North Carolina, to Savannah Georgia, to Titusville Florida, to Ft. … Continue reading Southern Trip: The Great Outdoors

7,875 miles; 13 states; 13 national parks, forests, and monuments; 14 visits with friends and family; and many surprise detours … Continue reading Best and Worst of the West

Think Woodstock meets vehicle gearheads. Over 6000 people made a pilgrimage to Asheville, North Carolina, in October to meet fellow travelers, check out overland gear and vehicles, and learn about skills and techniques for distant and off-road ventures. Continue reading “Overlanders, Asheville → Great Smokies Van Trip”

Michigan has very under-rated recreation and fishing. Some of the best trout rivers and some of the most beautiful country … Continue reading Michigan fly fishing in a van

New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Maine (by extension) make up extraordinary coastline, fishing villages, national parks, and … Continue reading Best of the Atlantic Maritimes

  Hanging out on the docks in Chéticamp, Nova Scotia – in northern Cape Breton – we met a boat … Continue reading Dad’s Lads

I love to meet mission-driven people. Kim and Werner Venter are building a unique wilderness campground in Norse Cove on … Continue reading Norse Cove

      When hearing about our van life, so many people have harkened back to Chris Farley on Saturday … Continue reading Livin’ in a van down by the river…

If you do not live in the West or the Southwest, it is easy to overlook the significance of water politics in the day-to-day. Continue reading “Hydropolitics in the Southwest”

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed opening up new oil and gas leasing parcels immediately adjacent to Zion … Continue reading Oil and Gas Drilling at Zion?

Several new posts on our latest van roadtrip: our experience of Cairo, Illinois; observations about traveling in the South (and … Continue reading A Southern Loop

If you look at a map Cairo, Illinois, jumps out as a place where you should stop. Betsy has always … Continue reading Cairo, Illinois

Route:  St. Louis to New Orleans, back to St. Louis, mostly via back roads with van repairs in Jackson Mississippi. … Continue reading The Middle South

There are only three archeological World Heritage Sites in the United States. Poverty Point, in Epps, Louisiana, in the Northeast … Continue reading Poverty Point

Serendipity is the thing on road trips. The theater of driving and seeing such natural and social diversity is remarkable. … Continue reading On the road…

It is easy to be nostalgic about the road – and particularly Route 66 – from a distance. Before heading … Continue reading Erick, Oklahoma

The Centennial of the National Parks was the occasion for much celebration and appreciation of “America’s Best Idea.” To read … Continue reading Our National Parks

Canyon de Chelly is an important physical and cultural monument. Five million years of geological uplift and water erosion created … Continue reading Canyon de Chelly National Monument

We first heard about Glen Canyon and Powell Lake from a ranger in Bryce National Park. She had been stationed … Continue reading Glen Canyon National Rec Area

The rain and forecast in Oregon encouraged us to move south quickly. We wandered about a bit in upscale Ashland, … Continue reading Lassen and Central California