This Is Drivel

Category: travel

  • never the twain

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    While on a road trip last week we stopped in Kansas City and this statue was just a block from our hotel. I would have kicked myself for the rest of my life if I hadn’t taken this photo. Read.

  • boxing

    The Camping Thing will eventually be a cluster of five boxes with hinged lids and a flat bridge piece that will double as a table, but right now it’s just one box and I’m still trying to figure out how to fit it into the back of the van. It’s forty-eight inches wide, as wide Read.

  • fridged

    We had some good weather today, so I spent some time outside trying to get The Camping Thing ready for the season. “Do you know how long you were out there?” My Darling B asked me, after I finally came in later in the afternoon. “Long enough for me to finish the last 15% of Read.

  • The Camping Thing: The Rebirth

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    The Camping Thing needs a complete do-over. Time to get started on that. Read.

  • bass beat

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    Ah, the sweet peace and restful quiet of staying in a B&B … NEXT TO THE DANCE CLUB WITH A FIFTY MEGATON STEREO SYSTEM Read.

  • home again

    Home again, home again. Left Dayton yesterday morning at 9:00 am (eastern time) and got back to our little red house at about 5:30 pm (central time). Hit a minor hitch when I missed a turn and had to drive through Gary, Indiana, but it didn’t set us back much and we didn’t miss any Read.

  • little boxes

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    I have spent another weekend cutting up lumber to make what I hope will be improvements to the camping thing. I’m still blinking sawdust out of my eyes this Monday morning. When I built the first iteration of the camping thing, I was inspired by a design I saw in a video on YouTube. I Read.

  • A Weekend at North Trout Lake, Sep 30 – Oct 2

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    I spent the weekend at the state park campground on North Trout Lake and it was glorious! Last time I was here it was, ah, not so glorious. It started raining shortly after I arrived, kept raining all night and all the next morning. It was still raining when I packed up and left. But Read.

  • Big Bay State Park, Sep 9 – 12

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    I took vacation on Friday, Sep 9, and Monday, Sep 12, so I could make a long weekend out of a visit to Big Bay State Park on Madeline Island, one of the Apostle Islands I’d been rained out of about half of all the camping trips I planned this summer and it looked at Read.

  • North Trout Lake, Aug 12-13

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    Rained out! I got to North Trout Lake about an hour before it started to rain. Had just enough time to take one quick bike ride, then spent the rest of the evening sitting under the overhang of the tent behind my van with a book until it was too dark to read. Still raining Read.

photo of the author and the author's best friend