This road of life
steph A few days after we got the van back from Buenos Aires, our family was hit with some very bad news. A cancer that my mother fought ten years ago…
Coming home
My friends here have a specific term we use when talking about the act of returning from a long trip: re-entry. I’m not quite sure who coined it (Sam? Lindsay?),…
jbuhler San Francisco
As if a month in Buenos Aires hadn’t been enough of a respite from the trip, we are now spending one week in the Bay Area. I ate some of…
Goodbye to All That
We left San Francisco today. This is what the last two weeks have looked like. Cleaning out the apartment, I ate a can of tuna on the exact date of…
send-off
Yesterday we had our Westy community send-off at Ocean Beach. There were two blue Westies, FOUR maroon ones, two brown ones, a cream-colored one, and several white ones. Me in…
New transmission
The auto transmission in the Pony had been hesitating when going from 2nd to 3rd when hot. For the last year or so. The Pony’s main mechanic, Art in Richmond,…
Data collection
I’ve been using RoadTrip, an iphone app to keep track of the gas mileage of the Westy. One nice thing it does every time you fill up is record the…
important things
We saw this in Holbrook, Arizona: That’s right! A beetle-camper! And it’s for sale, by the way, for $8500. And you can tell I’ve been spending too much time with…