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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2020-01-22T20:43:18" itemprop="datePublished">January <span>22, 2020</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>I dislike traveling. </p> +<p>This will seem like a strange comment coming from someone like me, but it’s true. I don’t like traveling. By traveling I mean leaving home, leaving your sanctuary, your familiar. To leave is to disconnect, to be adrift. It’s exhilarating in one way, draining and tragic in another. </p> +<p>Maybe it’s neither and I complain too much. Still, I have never seen living in the big blue bus as traveling. My home is like yours. I am just as connected to it. It may move from place to place, but I never leave home. Or I try not to anyway. Sometimes you do though. </p> +<p>First I went to Las Vegas for work. Las Vegas is America turned to 11. It’s awful, but also hard to look away. The Strip, where I stayed, is strange place, like being inside a pinball machine, bouncing from bright light to bright light. At least there was good Thai food. I got to see some old friends and make some new ones. It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be, but Las Vegas is still just… too much.</p> +<p>The last night I was there I walked a couple miles to try to get a better sense of the city. I started from my hotel, went down the strip, and turned west at the first street. The desert air was sharp and clear, so dry you worry it’ll start crackling.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-07_200157_las-vegas.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-07_200157_las-vegas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-07_200157_las-vegas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-07_200157_las-vegas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-07_200157_las-vegas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-07_200157_las-vegas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-06_200157_las-vegas.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-06_200157_las-vegas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-06_200157_las-vegas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-06_200157_las-vegas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-06_200157_las-vegas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="the strip, las vegas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-06_200157_las-vegas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Once you’re fifty feet away from the strip Las Vegas becomes an ordinary western city. I walked broad highway-like streets designed never to be walked. I took a convoluted freeway overpass walkway lined with the tents of a homeless village. It was a warm night for January. Several people returned my hello from beneath nylon tarps.</p> +<p>After a while time ran out for my walk and I called a ride. I met some old friends for dinner. It was nice to be around normal people after a week on the strip. It’s exhausting being in crowds in Vegas. The desperation and longing are palpable and it seeps into you. Later I caught another ride straight back to the hotel. I took a cold shower and caught a plane back home before the sun rose.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-09_092955_las-vegas.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-09_092955_las-vegas_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-09_092955_las-vegas_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-09_092955_las-vegas_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-09_092955_las-vegas_picwide-med.jpg" alt="predawn las vegas photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-09_092955_las-vegas.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<p>A couple a weeks later the kids and I boarded a plane for Los Angeles to visit my parents. Corrinne went to Mexico to visit her parents.</p> +<p>Newport Beach, where my parents live, was warm. Warmth in January? Yes, please. The kids got to spend a week with their grandparents, nearly every day of it at the beach. It wasn’t always sunny, but it was never cold, and that was all that mattered.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-22_175044_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-22_175044_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-22_175044_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-22_175044_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-22_175044_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Kids on the jetty, newport beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-22_175044_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_165419_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_165419_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_165419_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_165419_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_165419_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="surfers, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_165419_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_172010_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_172010_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_172010_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_172010_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_172010_newport_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_172010_newport_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_172010_newport_picwide.jpg" alt="seagulls, newport pier, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_172010_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Even the gray, overcast didn’t dampen anyone’s enthusiasm for the beach. We tried going inland one day, to the La Brea Tar Pits, but despite the bones and fossils, it failed to generate much enthusiasm.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-23_145111_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-23_145111_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-23_145111_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-23_145111_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-23_145111_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="at the la brea tar pits photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-23_145111_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It was funny how much the drive and L.A. traffic dampened the kids’ enthusiasm for it. I’d never really considered it before, but our kids hardly ever spend time in a car. True, we drive all over the country, but it’s rare that they’re in the car for more than a couple hours. On the rare occassionas that they are, at the end of it there’s a whole new world to explore. And it doesn’t happen again for weeks after that. </p> +<p>Our kids have no idea what it’s like to sit in a car seat for hours on end, stuck in traffic after school, or running errands around a city, and the taste they got on this trip left them unimpressed. After that experience we stuck to the beach. Whole worlds to explore there. Even foggy days at the beach beat a car ride any day.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_181423_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181423_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181423_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181423_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181423_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sea anemone, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_181423_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_180750_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_180750_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_180750_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_180750_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_180750_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="climbing in the jetty rocks, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_180750_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-24_153120_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_153120_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_153120_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_153120_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_153120_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids on the jetty, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-24_153120_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing on the jetty, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-24_153845_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_153845_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_153845_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_153845_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_153845_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="black and white photo of boy looking out at sea, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-24_153845_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-24_155406_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155406_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155406_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155406_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-24_155406_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-24_155406_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Luckily the gloom only lasted two days. The rest of the time we got to live that luxury that is a southern California January — sunny and 75. We explored the jetties, ate plenty of tacos, and even managed to get some swimming in on the warmest day of our stay.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_172022_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_172022_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_172022_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_172022_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_172022_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing in the water, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_172022_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_183852_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_183852_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_183852_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_183852_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_183852_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing in the water, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_183852_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_181528_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181528_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181528_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181528_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181528_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing on the jetty, Newport Beach, CA photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_181528_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_181203_newport.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181203_newport_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181203_newport_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181203_newport_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-25_181203_newport_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing on the jetty, newport beach, ca photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-25_181203_newport.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>And then just when we’d found a bit of familiar we were yanked back out of it, disconnected. Slammed in a metal tube and shot back across the country. </p> +<p>I am convinced that future generations will look back, long after the cheap oil is gone and flying is a luxury, if it’s possible at all, and marvel at our extravagances and peculiar habit of air travel, wondering why we did it at all, and ostensibly for fun.</p> +<p>Which is to say, we were all glad to be back home, together.</p> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>Allen's Hummingbird </li> + + <li>Black Phoebe </li> + + <li>California Gull </li> + + <li>Double-crested Cormorant </li> + + <li>Heermann's Gull </li> + + <li>Marbled Godwit </li> + + <li>Ring-billed Gull </li> + + <li>Western Gull </li> + + <li>Willet </li> + </ul> + </ul> + </aside> + + + </div> + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" > + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a 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+
+This will seem like a strange comment coming from someone like me, but it's true. I don't like traveling. By traveling I mean leaving home, leaving your sanctuary, your familiar. To leave is to disconnect, to be adrift. It's exhilarating in one way, draining and tragic in another.
+
+Maybe it's neither and I complain too much. Still, I have never seen living in the big blue bus as traveling. My home is like yours. I am just as connected to it. It may move from place to place, but I never leave home. Or I try not to anyway. Sometimes you do though.
+
+First I went to Las Vegas for work. Las Vegas is America turned to 11. It's awful, but also hard to look away. The Strip, where I stayed, is strange place, like being inside a pinball machine, bouncing from bright light to bright light. At least there was good Thai food. I got to see some old friends and make some new ones. It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be, but Las Vegas is still just... too much.
+
+The last night I was there I walked a couple miles to try to get a better sense of the city. I started from my hotel, went down the strip, and turned west at the first street. The desert air was sharp and clear, so dry you worry it'll start crackling.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-07_200157_las-vegas.jpg" id="image-2273" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-06_200157_las-vegas.jpg" id="image-2272" class="picwide" />
+
+Once you're fifty feet away from the strip Las Vegas becomes an ordinary western city. I walked broad highway-like streets designed never to be walked. I took a convoluted freeway overpass walkway lined with the tents of a homeless village. It was a warm night for January. Several people returned my hello from beneath nylon tarps.
+
+After a while time ran out for my walk and I called a ride. I met some old friends for dinner. It was nice to be around normal people after a week on the strip. It's exhausting being in crowds in Vegas. The desperation and longing are palpable and it seeps into you. Later I caught another ride straight back to the hotel. I took a cold shower and caught a plane back home before the sun rose.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-09_092955_las-vegas.jpg" id="image-2274" class="picwide" />
+
+<hr />
+
+A couple a weeks later the kids and I boarded a plane for Los Angeles to visit my parents. Corrinne went to Mexico to visit her parents.
+
+Newport Beach, where my parents live, was warm. Warmth in January? Yes, please. The kids got to spend a week with their grandparents, nearly every day of it at the beach. It wasn't always sunny, but it was never cold, and that was all that mattered.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-22_175044_newport.jpg" id="image-2275" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_165419_newport.jpg" id="image-2281" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_172010_newport.jpg" id="image-2282" class="picwide" />
+
+Even the gray, overcast didn't dampen anyone's enthusiasm for the beach. We tried going inland one day, to the La Brea Tar Pits, but despite the bones and fossils, it failed to generate much enthusiasm.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-23_145111_newport.jpg" id="image-2276" class="picwide" />
+
+It was funny how much the drive and L.A. traffic dampened the kids' enthusiasm for it. I'd never really considered it before, but our kids hardly ever spend time in a car. True, we drive all over the country, but it's rare that they're in the car for more than a couple hours. On the rare occassionas that they are, at the end of it there's a whole new world to explore. And it doesn't happen again for weeks after that.
+
+Our kids have no idea what it's like to sit in a car seat for hours on end, stuck in traffic after school, or running errands around a city, and the taste they got on this trip left them unimpressed. After that experience we stuck to the beach. Whole worlds to explore there. Even foggy days at the beach beat a car ride any day.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_181423_newport.jpg" id="image-2285" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_180750_newport.jpg" id="image-2284" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-24_153120_newport.jpg" id="image-2277" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-24_155128_newport.jpg" id="image-2279" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-24_153845_newport.jpg" id="image-2278" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-24_155406_newport.jpg" id="image-2280" class="picwide" />
+
+Luckily the gloom only lasted two days. The rest of the time we got to live that luxury that is a southern California January -- sunny and 75. We explored the jetties, ate plenty of tacos, and even managed to get some swimming in on the warmest day of our stay.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_172022_newport.jpg" id="image-2283" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_183852_newport.jpg" id="image-2286" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_181528_newport.jpg" id="image-2289" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-01-25_181203_newport.jpg" id="image-2288" class="picwide" />
+
+And then just when we'd found a bit of familiar we were yanked back out of it, disconnected. Slammed in a metal tube and shot back across the country.
+
+I am convinced that future generations will look back, long after the cheap oil is gone and flying is a luxury, if it's possible at all, and marvel at our extravagances and peculiar habit of air travel, wondering why we did it at all, and ostensibly for fun.
+
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2020-01-08T17:13:20" itemprop="datePublished">January <span>8, 2020</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>We’ve never stayed at the beach front campground in Edisto. We prefer the marsh campground, back from the beach, on the inland side of the salt grass marsh. It’s not any less crowded, but there’s at least some vegetation between sites.</p> +<p>There’s a trail that makes a roughly mile long loop through the marsh. It’s partly boardwalk built over the water, and partly a sandy trail that follows a series of hammocks running half the length of the marsh. I managed to get out on it most mornings, partly for the birding, partly to experiment with a walking form of meditation. I tried to time it so I’d be in the middle of the marsh at or around dawn.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-28_073240_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073240_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073240_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073240_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073240_edisto_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073240_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073240_edisto_picwide.jpg" alt="Boardwalk trail, edisto marsh photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-28_073240_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-28_073428_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073428_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073428_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073428_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073428_edisto_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073428_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-28_073428_edisto_picwide.jpg" alt="Edisto marsh at dawn photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-28_073428_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It’s winter, which means many of the birds are well south, but there were enough around the make it interesting. I sat most mornings on the edge of the marsh for a few minutes marking all the slow waders that would disappear the minute I stepped out of the shadows. A kingfisher never cared what I did, it just fished and shrieked. As you do fishing.</p> +<p>I stumbled upon and startled the same hooded merganzer couple three mornings in a row. The first time it was a true surprise to all present when I rounded a corner and there they were. The second time we were all more startled that it had happened again, than startled I think. By the third morning it was no longer shocking, none of us flinched, we merely regarded each other for a while before moving on, they deeper into the water channels tracing their way through the marsh, me to the sandy side of the marsh walk. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-27_113622_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-27_113622_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-27_113622_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-27_113622_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-27_113622_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="marsh at dawn, edisto, SC photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-27_113622_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-27_113252_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-27_113252_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-27_113252_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-27_113252_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-27_113252_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Edisto Marsh at dawn, Edisto, SC photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-27_113252_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>One morning there was almost no bird life at all. I was standing in the middle of the boardwalk, wondering where everyone had gone, when a black glimmer of shadow shot across the water beside me. I knew it was an eagle before I ever looked up. I spent some time later trying to work out how I knew that, but I never arrived at anything beyond: I felt it. </p> +<p>By the time I found it with the binoculars it was on the far side of the marsh perched exactly where you’d expect an eagle to land, near the top of a huge dead pine, sitting on the most gnarled, skeletal branch. It sat watching the marsh, feathers ruffled, head cocked, unperturbed by cars passing on the road below. </p> +<p>As long as it was out there bird life in the marsh ceased. The kingfisher was still out fishing, but he was decidedly quite. Everything else made itself scarce. I walked the rest of the way back to the campground without touching my binoculars. When you see a bald eagle you see little else. It’s worth the trade off.</p> +<hr /> + +<p>Charleston is a good town for wandering. The main street is mostly shopping, but if you duck off on the side streets you’ll stumble across all sort of odd things, little parks, squares, churches, centuries old buildings abound. </p> +<p>We’ve always used the lack of laundry in Edisto as an excuse to drive up to Charleston. It’s like a tradition at this point — we do our laundry, eat some Thai or Vietnamese, and wander the streets of downtown, seeing what we see, including something new for us in our travels: a sunscreen dispenser. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-30_142546_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142546_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142546_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142546_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142546_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="downtown charleston SC photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-30_142546_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-30_142816_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142816_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142816_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142816_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142816_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ferns growing on tree, charleston, SC photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-30_142816_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-30_142759_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142759_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142759_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142759_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_142759_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Sunscreen dispenser, charleston, SC photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-30_142759_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I don’t know why I find this so disturbing but I do. There’s some kind of cautionary metaphor in this disgusting clump of caked white paste, but I’m not exactly sure what it is yet.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-30_143315_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_143315_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_143315_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_143315_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_143315_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Demosthenian Literary Society building, charleston, SC photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-30_143315_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-30_143725_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_143725_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_143725_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_143725_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2019-12-30_143725_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sign for Elliott House Inn photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2019-12-30_143725_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Sometimes, when you’re young, you’ve just had enough of walking. You just want to stand still and fish. Our friends Charlie and Allison have been coming down here for decades and they showed us the best fishing spots. This one was ridiculous. I’ve never fished somewhere you could throw out a line, wait less than five minutes and reel in a fish. Consistently. For hours. Best place to take your kids fishing ever.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1021.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1021_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1021_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1021_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1021_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy fishing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1021.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1020.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1020_pic66.jpg" alt="boy with a fish on the line photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1020.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1028.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1028_pic66.jpg" alt="girl hold a fish she caught photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1028.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1034.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1034_pic66.jpg" alt="catching a blue crab photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1034.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1036.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1036_pic66.jpg" alt="blue crab photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1036.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>Standing still has its place, but if you’re young and you happen to live with us, you’ll probably be walking again before too long. The world is too big to see standing still.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1050.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1050_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1050_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1050_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1050_picwide-med.jpg" alt="walking the beach at Edisto photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1050.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1071.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1071_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1071_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, 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We prefer the marsh campground, back from the beach, on the inland side of the salt grass marsh. It's not any less crowded, but there's at least some vegetation between sites.
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+There's a trail that makes a roughly mile long loop through the marsh. It's partly boardwalk built over the water, and partly a sandy trail that follows a series of hammocks running half the length of the marsh. I managed to get out on it most mornings, partly for the birding, partly to experiment with a walking form of meditation. I tried to time it so I'd be in the middle of the marsh at or around dawn.
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+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-28_073240_edisto.jpg" id="image-2251" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-28_073428_edisto.jpg" id="image-2252" class="picwide" />
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+It's winter, which means many of the birds are well south, but there were enough around the make it interesting. I sat most mornings on the edge of the marsh for a few minutes marking all the slow waders that would disappear the minute I stepped out of the shadows. A kingfisher never cared what I did, it just fished and shrieked. As you do fishing.
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+I stumbled upon and startled the same hooded merganzer couple three mornings in a row. The first time it was a true surprise to all present when I rounded a corner and there they were. The second time we were all more startled that it had happened again, than startled I think. By the third morning it was no longer shocking, none of us flinched, we merely regarded each other for a while before moving on, they deeper into the water channels tracing their way through the marsh, me to the sandy side of the marsh walk.
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+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-27_113622_edisto.jpg" id="image-2261" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-27_113252_edisto.jpg" id="image-2260" class="picwide" />
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+One morning there was almost no bird life at all. I was standing in the middle of the boardwalk, wondering where everyone had gone, when a black glimmer of shadow shot across the water beside me. I knew it was an eagle before I ever looked up. I spent some time later trying to work out how I knew that, but I never arrived at anything beyond: I felt it.
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+By the time I found it with the binoculars it was on the far side of the marsh perched exactly where you'd expect an eagle to land, near the top of a huge dead pine, sitting on the most gnarled, skeletal branch. It sat watching the marsh, feathers ruffled, head cocked, unperturbed by cars passing on the road below.
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+As long as it was out there bird life in the marsh ceased. The kingfisher was still out fishing, but he was decidedly quite. Everything else made itself scarce. I walked the rest of the way back to the campground without touching my binoculars. When you see a bald eagle you see little else. It's worth the trade off.
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+Charleston is a good town for wandering. The main street is mostly shopping, but if you duck off on the side streets you'll stumble across all sort of odd things, little parks, squares, churches, centuries old buildings abound.
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+We've always used the lack of laundry in Edisto as an excuse to drive up to Charleston. It's like a tradition at this point -- we do our laundry, eat some Thai or Vietnamese, and wander the streets of downtown, seeing what we see, including something new for us in our travels: a sunscreen dispenser.
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+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-30_142546_edisto.jpg" id="image-2253" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-30_142816_edisto.jpg" id="image-2255" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-30_142759_edisto.jpg" id="image-2254" class="picwide" />
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+I don't know why I find this so disturbing but I do. There's some kind of cautionary metaphor in this disgusting clump of caked white paste, but I'm not exactly sure what it is yet.
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+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-30_143315_edisto.jpg" id="image-2256" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2019-12-30_143725_edisto.jpg" id="image-2257" class="picwide" />
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+Sometimes, when you're young, you've just had enough of walking. You just want to stand still and fish. Our friends Charlie and Allison have been coming down here for decades and they showed us the best fishing spots. This one was ridiculous. I've never fished somewhere you could throw out a line, wait less than five minutes and reel in a fish. Consistently. For hours. Best place to take your kids fishing ever.
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+Standing still has its place, but if you're young and you happen to live with us, you'll probably be walking again before too long. The world is too big to see standing still.
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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2020-02-05T20:35:04" itemprop="datePublished">February <span>5, 2020</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>Winter is a good time to remain still and watch. The world is naked, dazzling in the winter light. It is easy to focus. Single flowers break through the frost. Buttercups, trout lily, dandelion, and Skunk Cabbage leaves in the wet bottomlands. You can count the buds on bare dogwood branches and still-leafed holly.</p> +<p>There is less of you here, more of the world around you. You learn by being quiet. Leaves fall one by one, each with a clatter as it lands, all winter long. Orange dust appears, grows and extends to reveal fungi, and returns to dust again. The wind tastes of rain long before the clouds appear.</p> +<p>All of this is to say, it is not you and the world, it is the world with you.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0025.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0025_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0025_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0025_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0025_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Georgia wood in black and white photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0025.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-19_154827_fort-yargo.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-19_154827_fort-yargo_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-19_154827_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-19_154827_fort-yargo_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-01-19_154827_fort-yargo_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lake at Fort Yargo photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-01-19_154827_fort-yargo.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1163_BXEDJ73.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1163_BXEDJ73_pic66.jpg" alt="boy looking through magnifying glass photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1163_BXEDJ73.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1181.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1181_pic66.jpg" alt="detail of fungi under magnifying glass photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1181.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>It is the world within you. There is no world without you. Existence is a relationship. It put you in it to learn. You put what you learn in it. It puts more in you. Give and give. No taking. You’re not here for long, there’s no time to take. Barely time to give what you can. Better still: remain motionless, watch, wait, listen, observe.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-26_081155_nikon-watson-mill.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-26_081155_nikon-watson-mill_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-26_081155_nikon-watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-26_081155_nikon-watson-mill_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-26_081155_nikon-watson-mill_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-26_081155_nikon-watson-mill_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-26_081155_nikon-watson-mill_picwide.jpg" alt="forest in fog photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-26_081155_nikon-watson-mill.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0024.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0024_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0024_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0024_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0024_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy climbing tree photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0024.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0044.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0044_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0044_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0044_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0044_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Watson Mill Covered Bridge in black and white photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0044.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Down below the falls I watched a great heron feed. It moved slowly, sometimes not at all for longer than I can endure sitting still. And then when it need to, it snapped so fast I could not see it move, only the head coming up with a fish.</p> +<p>This is the way to learn I think. Moments of sudden insight are rare. Rather there are a whole lot of moments that come together so gradually you don’t notice them. Even in hindsight they seem painfully slow in arriving. But then, at some point, you holding that fish in your beak and you <em>know</em>. </p> +<p>Watching the kids learn is like this. There is no day I could point to and say, this is when they learned to read, this is when they learned to write. There are simply days that pass, and more days, and more days, and then — fish.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1294.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1294_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1294_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1294_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1294_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Girls at table with notebooks, Homeschooling photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1294.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1311.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1311_pic66.jpg" alt="boy smiling, homeschooling photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1311.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1308.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1308_pic66.jpg" alt="homeschool playing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1308.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1391.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1391_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1391_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1391_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1391_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Children painting bark photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1391.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1405.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1405_pic66.jpg" alt="painted bark photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1405.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1450.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1450_pic66.jpg" alt="seashells, books, magnifying glass photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1450.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>When we decided to spend autumn and winter here it felt like another defeat to me, like spending summer in Texas, like we had once again failed life’s geographic climate test. We’re supposed to chase the weather, be in the sunny deserts of the west, or down at the beaches of Mexico. </p> +<p>Now though I am glad we were here. There is much to learn in not getting what you want. </p> +<p>There is much to learn from discomfort — like how fast you adapt to cold for instance — much to learn from the leaves falling, much to learn from herons fishing in the cold waters, much to learn from the forest when it falls silent for the winter.</p> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>American Crow </li> + + <li>American Goldfinch </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/barred-owl">Barred Owl</a> </li> + + <li>Black-and-white Warbler </li> + + <li>Black Vulture </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/brown-thrasher">Brown Thrasher</a> </li> + + <li>Carolina Chickadee </li> + + <li>Carolina Wren </li> + + <li>Chipping Sparrow </li> + + <li>Downy Woodpecker </li> + + <li>Eastern Bluebird </li> + + <li>Eastern Phoebe </li> + + <li>Eastern Whip-poor-will </li> + + <li>Great Blue Heron </li> + + <li>Killdeer </li> + + <li><a 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The world is naked, dazzling in the winter light. It is easy to focus. Single flowers break through the frost. Buttercups, trout lily, dandelion, and Skunk Cabbage leaves in the wet bottomlands. You can count the buds on bare dogwood branches and still-leafed holly.
+
+There is less of you here, more of the world around you. You learn by being quiet. Leaves fall one by one, each with a clatter as it lands, all winter long. Orange dust appears, grows and extends to reveal fungi, and returns to dust again. The wind tastes of rain long before the clouds appear.
+
+All of this is to say, it is not you and the world, it is the world with you.
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+<img src="images/2020/DSCF0025.jpg" id="image-2308" class="cluster picwide" />
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+It is the world within you. There is no world without you. Existence is a relationship. It put you in it to learn. You put what you learn in it. It puts more in you. Give and give. No taking. You're not here for long, there's no time to take. Barely time to give what you can. Better still: remain motionless, watch, wait, listen, observe.
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+<img src="images/2020/DSCF0024.jpg" id="image-2307" class="picwide" />
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+Down below the falls I watched a great heron feed. It moved slowly, sometimes not at all for longer than I can endure sitting still. And then when it need to, it snapped so fast I could not see it move, only the head coming up with a fish.
+
+This is the way to learn I think. Moments of sudden insight are rare. Rather there are a whole lot of moments that come together so gradually you don't notice them. Even in hindsight they seem painfully slow in arriving. But then, at some point, you holding that fish in your beak and you *know*.
+
+Watching the kids learn is like this. There is no day I could point to and say, this is when they learned to read, this is when they learned to write. There are simply days that pass, and more days, and more days, and then -- fish.
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+When we decided to spend autumn and winter here it felt like another defeat to me, like spending summer in Texas, like we had once again failed life's geographic climate test. We're supposed to chase the weather, be in the sunny deserts of the west, or down at the beaches of Mexico.
+
+Now though I am glad we were here. There is much to learn in not getting what you want.
+
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At first I try to downplay it for the kids. I don’t want them to be disappointed if it turns out to be just a couple flurries, which is all we’re likely to get in this part of the world. Still, the chickadees and titmice <em>were</em> particularly chatty and busy this morning. Maybe.</p> +<p>Driving back to the campsite though I can see it’s sticking to the ground in the colder areas, the tops of trees, on grass in open fields. The birds are on to something I think. I allow myself to get a little excited. The kids are way ahead of me, yelling about a real snow day. </p> +<p>By the time we get back to the site it’s coming down hard and clearly sticking to the ground. Jackets and gloves go on, everyone piles outside into the winter wonderland.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1501.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1501_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1501_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1501_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1501_picwide-med.jpg" alt="snow falling on bare trees and road photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1501.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1491.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1491_pic66.jpg" alt="girl in red jacket in the snow photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1491.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1537.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1537_pic66.jpg" alt="man in black hoodie in snow photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1537.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_114648_snow-day.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_114648_snow-day_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_114648_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_114648_snow-day_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_114648_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing in falling snow photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_114648_snow-day.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<p>Anyone living north of Georgia will probably chuckle at this amount of snow. I know. I lived in Massachusetts for a few years. It’s not snow much, but it’s enough to put smiles on everyone’s faces.</p> +<p>Maybe it’s more special because it is harder to come by snow in these parts. Six inches of snow in this part of Georgia somehow feels more miraculous than three feet ever did in Northampton. Maybe I am just weird though, I used to get excited every time it snowed up there too. Even when it snowed in May. There’s just something great about snow.</p> +<p>This was not the first time the kids have seen snow, but it might as well have been — it’s been years since they’ve been in it.</p> +<p>I always say we chase the weather, and we try to, but when you fail at that, then you might as well get some snow out of it. And for once, we did.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_125402_snow-day.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125402_snow-day_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125402_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125402_snow-day_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125402_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing in the snow photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_125402_snow-day.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_125430_snow-day.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125430_snow-day_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125430_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125430_snow-day_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125430_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing in the snow photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_125430_snow-day.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_130100_snow-day.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_130100_snow-day_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_130100_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_130100_snow-day_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_130100_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl in red jacket walking through the snowy woods photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_130100_snow-day.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>After an hour so the cold began to set in. We don’t really have the clothes for snow. Cotton is not your friend in a snowball fight. Wet and cold I was ready to warm up. Lilah was undaunted though. She made me take her for a snow hike. </p> +<p>We walked down the river to see snow on the covered bridge, but water was running high and cold made white vapor that all but obscured the bridge. On the hike back the cold finally overcame her and I carried her the last half mile up the hill. We caught a couple last snowflakes on our tongues and ducked inside to dry off and drink hot cocoa. And play a few intensely competitive games of Uno. As you do.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_125157_snow-day.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125157_snow-day_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125157_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125157_snow-day_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125157_snow-day_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125157_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_125157_snow-day_picwide.jpg" alt="dirt road through the snowy woods photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_125157_snow-day.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_124954_snow-day.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_124954_snow-day_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_124954_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_124954_snow-day_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_124954_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg" alt="snow on bare winter branches photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_124954_snow-day.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_133713_snow-day.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_133713_snow-day_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_133713_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_133713_snow-day_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-02-08_133713_snow-day_picwide-med.jpg" alt="watson mill bridge through heavy fog and mist photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-02-08_133713_snow-day.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1540.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1540_pic66.jpg" alt="girl trying to catch snowflakes on her tongue photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1540.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1541.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1541_pic66.jpg" alt="boy drinking hot cocoa photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1541.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>The world seemed to warm up with us. 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At first I try to downplay it for the kids. I don't want them to be disappointed if it turns out to be just a couple flurries, which is all we're likely to get in this part of the world. Still, the chickadees and titmice *were* particularly chatty and busy this morning. Maybe.
+
+Driving back to the campsite though I can see it's sticking to the ground in the colder areas, the tops of trees, on grass in open fields. The birds are on to something I think. I allow myself to get a little excited. The kids are way ahead of me, yelling about a real snow day.
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+By the time we get back to the site it's coming down hard and clearly sticking to the ground. Jackets and gloves go on, everyone piles outside into the winter wonderland.
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+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2020/DSC_1501.jpg" id="image-2313" class="cluster picwide" />
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+<img src="images/2020/DSC_1491.jpg" id="image-2312" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2020/DSC_1537.jpg" id="image-2314" class="cluster pic66" />
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+<img src="images/2020/2020-02-08_114648_snow-day.jpg" id="image-2317" class="cluster picwide" />
+</div>
+
+Anyone living north of Georgia will probably chuckle at this amount of snow. I know. I lived in Massachusetts for a few years. It's not snow much, but it's enough to put smiles on everyone's faces.
+
+Maybe it's more special because it is harder to come by snow in these parts. Six inches of snow in this part of Georgia somehow feels more miraculous than three feet ever did in Northampton. Maybe I am just weird though, I used to get excited every time it snowed up there too. Even when it snowed in May. There's just something great about snow.
+
+This was not the first time the kids have seen snow, but it might as well have been -- it's been years since they've been in it.
+
+I always say we chase the weather, and we try to, but when you fail at that, then you might as well get some snow out of it. And for once, we did.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-02-08_125402_snow-day.jpg" id="image-2320" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-02-08_125430_snow-day.jpg" id="image-2321" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-02-08_130100_snow-day.jpg" id="image-2322" class="picwide" />
+
+After an hour so the cold began to set in. We don't really have the clothes for snow. Cotton is not your friend in a snowball fight. Wet and cold I was ready to warm up. Lilah was undaunted though. She made me take her for a snow hike.
+
+We walked down the river to see snow on the covered bridge, but water was running high and cold made white vapor that all but obscured the bridge. On the hike back the cold finally overcame her and I carried her the last half mile up the hill. We caught a couple last snowflakes on our tongues and ducked inside to dry off and drink hot cocoa. And play a few intensely competitive games of Uno. As you do.
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+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2020/2020-02-08_125157_snow-day.jpg" id="image-2319" class="cluster picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-02-08_124954_snow-day.jpg" id="image-2318" class="cluster picwide" />
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The smell of salt on the wind, the slash and clatter of palms as the wind comes ashore. The muffled <em>thick thick think</em> of the first drops spitting on the sand. The lightning flashing far out at sea is always visible long before you hear any hint of a rumble. It blinks like Christmas lights on the horizon.</p> +<p>The waves of wind begin to swing ashore, it’s then that you can sense the life in the storm, the personalities, the intentions. Storms are alive too. They have a path to follow just like us. Just because something only lasts a few days, does not mean it doesn’t have intentions. Just because you can’t decipher the intentions doesn’t mean they aren’t there.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC02341.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC02341_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC02341_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC02341_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC02341_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC02341_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC02341_picwide.jpg" alt="storm clouds on the horizen photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC02341.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Tonight I sat by the fire feeling the barometer drop, feeling the stir of wind, watching the whirl of embers as the fire died down and the wind came up. I could feel it coming, I could sense its presence. </p> +<p>This storm comes from the southwest, a mix a southern and western personalities, a storm we all know in this part of the world. I never worry about a storm unless it comes from the north. Storms from the north aren’t more dangerous exactly, but they’re chaotic and unpredictable. You never know what a north wind will bring. Though around here the ones you really have to watch out for are the east and southeast winds. But we’re months from those. </p> +<p>This one we watched arrive. Storm clouds sweeping up from the southwest all day. One or two at first, floating lazily along. Then more, as if they were forming up around some kind of a plan. Whatever the plan was, it didn’t involve Edisto. Despite spitting rain a little during the night it was back to sunshine the next day.</p> +<p>I love a good storm, but not when I have to drive. That morning we headed down the coast a couple hours to Hunting Island State Park.The drive was sunny, fortunately. Uneventful. Beaufort proved to be a charming little coastal southern town. Or it looked that way anyway. By the time we drove through, the rest of the country was starting to lock down over the coronavirus. South Carolina remained in a state of blissful ignorance, but having watched the virus spread via stories of friends and family on the west coast, I wasn’t about to head out and wander the streets. </p> +<p>I’d just as soon strangers always keep a six foot distance from me. But South Carolina wasn’t about to make rules regarding that or anything else. South Carolina is the south’s “live free or die” state. There still aren’t helmet laws here, which I think is great actually. But a virus is not a motorcycle. A virus is not something you choose to do. A virus really has nothing to do with “rights”. A virus is a good reminder that rights are a thing conferred by communities of people to members of those communities. There are no “natural” rights.</p> +<p>It’s also important to dig too, because behind all the talk of rights, usually you find someone making money. As one of the camp hosts put to it when I asked if he thought the South Carolina State Parks would close, “These greedy bastards? Never.” And he was right. The parks down there remained essentially open through April 12. </p> +<p>So we missed Beaufort because the virus-exposure-to-fun ratio did not work out in its favor. We did get to spend a few days on Hunting Island though. By a stroke of pure luck we had the nicest campsite in the campground, which was good because otherwise it was packed in and crowded, as beach campgrounds tend to be. The best I can say for it was that the water was walking distance away. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1992.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1992_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1992_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1992_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1992_picwide-med.jpg" alt="ocean, hunting island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1992.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-16_153134_hunting-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_153134_hunting-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_153134_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_153134_hunting-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_153134_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="storm over the beach, hunting island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-16_153134_hunting-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The kids spent all day every day out on the sand. We even made in the water a couple times despite the cold. As you do.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2009.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2009_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2009_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2009_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2009_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids on the beach, hunting island state beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2009.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1989.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1989_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1989_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1989_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1989_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids running on the beach, hunting island state beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1989.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC02342.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC02342_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC02342_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC02342_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC02342_picwide-med.jpg" alt="jellyfish on the beach, hunting island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC02342.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-15_151306_hunting-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_151306_hunting-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_151306_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_151306_hunting-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_151306_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids in the water, hunting island beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-15_151306_hunting-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-15_145915_hunting-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_145915_hunting-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_145915_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_145915_hunting-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_145915_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids in the water, hunting island beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-15_145915_hunting-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The beach here was not nearly as forthcoming with treasures. There were shells, and a lot of jellyfish, but little of the fossils and other things we’d been finding in Edisto.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-16_151554_hunting-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_151554_hunting-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_151554_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_151554_hunting-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_151554_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids playing on driftwood, hunting island state park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-16_151554_hunting-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-16_150934_hunting-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_150934_hunting-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_150934_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_150934_hunting-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_150934_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="storm over the dunes, hunting island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-16_150934_hunting-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-16_153017_hunting-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_153017_hunting-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_153017_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_153017_hunting-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-16_153017_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="deer on the dunes, hunting island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-16_153017_hunting-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>And then our options began to fade. North Carolina shut down its parks, which killed our next plan, which was head to the Outer Banks for a few months. Then Florida shut down its state parks and we were starting to feel the squeeze. Competition for what few camping spots remained became much more intense. We full timers may fly under the radar for most people, but there are far more of us than you know. Take away public camping and the options get thin quickly. We decided it was time to get out of South Carolina. </p> +<p>At the time most people were not taking the virus very seriously. Here’s the thing. Maybe you can get Covid-19 and be fine. But what if you can’t? Do you really want to find out right now when there’s no treatment and hospitals are crowded? When we don’t even really understand what the virus does, <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/lilienfeld1/status/1251335135909122049">especially any long term effects</a>? Just because you survive it does not mean you go back to normal. Ask anyone who lives with Lyme, RSV, chronic fatigue syndrome, or any of the other virus-borne diseases with long term consequences. Viruses are nothing new, sickness and death are nothing new, but that doesn’t mean we should run full speed toward them without a care.</p> +<p>We decided to take steps we felt would best help us avoid coming in contact with SARS-CoV-2. Unfortunately that meant changing our plans. But it’s hardly the first time we’ve had to change plans. These things happen. Traveling around in RV isn’t a right you know, it’s a privilege that we’ve enjoyed, but right now it isn’t possible. 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The smell of salt on the wind, the slash and clatter of palms as the wind comes ashore. The muffled *thick thick think* of the first drops spitting on the sand. The lightning flashing far out at sea is always visible long before you hear any hint of a rumble. It blinks like Christmas lights on the horizon.
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+The waves of wind begin to swing ashore, it's then that you can sense the life in the storm, the personalities, the intentions. Storms are alive too. They have a path to follow just like us. Just because something only lasts a few days, does not mean it doesn't have intentions. Just because you can't decipher the intentions doesn't mean they aren't there.
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+<img src="images/2020/DSC02341.jpg" id="image-2356" class="picwide" />
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+Tonight I sat by the fire feeling the barometer drop, feeling the stir of wind, watching the whirl of embers as the fire died down and the wind came up. I could feel it coming, I could sense its presence.
+
+This storm comes from the southwest, a mix a southern and western personalities, a storm we all know in this part of the world. I never worry about a storm unless it comes from the north. Storms from the north aren't more dangerous exactly, but they're chaotic and unpredictable. You never know what a north wind will bring. Though around here the ones you really have to watch out for are the east and southeast winds. But we're months from those.
+
+This one we watched arrive. Storm clouds sweeping up from the southwest all day. One or two at first, floating lazily along. Then more, as if they were forming up around some kind of a plan. Whatever the plan was, it didn't involve Edisto. Despite spitting rain a little during the night it was back to sunshine the next day.
+
+I love a good storm, but not when I have to drive. That morning we headed down the coast a couple hours to Hunting Island State Park.The drive was sunny, fortunately. Uneventful. Beaufort proved to be a charming little coastal southern town. Or it looked that way anyway. By the time we drove through, the rest of the country was starting to lock down over the coronavirus. South Carolina remained in a state of blissful ignorance, but having watched the virus spread via stories of friends and family on the west coast, I wasn't about to head out and wander the streets.
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+I'd just as soon strangers always keep a six foot distance from me. But South Carolina wasn't about to make rules regarding that or anything else. South Carolina is the south's "live free or die" state. There still aren't helmet laws here, which I think is great actually. But a virus is not a motorcycle. A virus is not something you choose to do. A virus really has nothing to do with "rights". A virus is a good reminder that rights are a thing conferred by communities of people to members of those communities. There are no "natural" rights.
+
+It's also important to dig too, because behind all the talk of rights, usually you find someone making money. As one of the camp hosts put to it when I asked if he thought the South Carolina State Parks would close, "These greedy bastards? Never." And he was right. The parks down there remained essentially open through April 12.
+
+So we missed Beaufort because the virus-exposure-to-fun ratio did not work out in its favor. We did get to spend a few days on Hunting Island though. By a stroke of pure luck we had the nicest campsite in the campground, which was good because otherwise it was packed in and crowded, as beach campgrounds tend to be. The best I can say for it was that the water was walking distance away.
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+<img src="images/2020/DSC_1992.jpg" id="image-2359" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-16_153134_hunting-island.jpg" id="image-2354" class="picwide" />
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+The kids spent all day every day out on the sand. We even made in the water a couple times despite the cold. As you do.
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+<img src="images/2020/DSC_2009.jpg" id="image-2360" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/DSC_1989.jpg" id="image-2358" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/DSC02342.jpg" id="image-2357" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-15_151306_hunting-island.jpg" id="image-2350" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-15_145915_hunting-island.jpg" id="image-2349" class="picwide" />
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+The beach here was not nearly as forthcoming with treasures. There were shells, and a lot of jellyfish, but little of the fossils and other things we'd been finding in Edisto.
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+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-16_151554_hunting-island.jpg" id="image-2352" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-16_150934_hunting-island.jpg" id="image-2351" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-16_153017_hunting-island.jpg" id="image-2353" class="picwide" />
+
+And then our options began to fade. North Carolina shut down its parks, which killed our next plan, which was head to the Outer Banks for a few months. Then Florida shut down its state parks and we were starting to feel the squeeze. Competition for what few camping spots remained became much more intense. We full timers may fly under the radar for most people, but there are far more of us than you know. Take away public camping and the options get thin quickly. We decided it was time to get out of South Carolina.
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+At the time most people were not taking the virus very seriously. Here's the thing. Maybe you can get Covid-19 and be fine. But what if you can't? Do you really want to find out right now when there's no treatment and hospitals are crowded? When we don't even really understand what the virus does, [especially any long term effects](https://mobile.twitter.com/lilienfeld1/status/1251335135909122049)? Just because you survive it does not mean you go back to normal. Ask anyone who lives with Lyme, RSV, chronic fatigue syndrome, or any of the other virus-borne diseases with long term consequences. Viruses are nothing new, sickness and death are nothing new, but that doesn't mean we should run full speed toward them without a care.
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+We decided to take steps we felt would best help us avoid coming in contact with SARS-CoV-2. Unfortunately that meant changing our plans. But it's hardly the first time we've had to change plans. These things happen. Traveling around in RV isn't a right you know, it's a privilege that we've enjoyed, but right now it isn't possible. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2020-03-04T20:37:45" itemprop="datePublished">March <span>4, 2020</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>After a winter in Georgia, we were ready for some warmer climes. We managed to book up a month of beach time at some South Carolina State Parks. Everything came together well, weather, work, and bus repairs. Like we did nearly three years ago, we split the drive down into two days. This time we stopped off for a night at a tiny state park on the Edisto River.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1860.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1860_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1860_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1860_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1860_picwide-med.jpg" alt="edisto river in flood. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1860.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>This part of the country, and upriver of here, has out-rained even the pacific northwest so far this year, and it showed. The river was ten feet over flood stage. It was difficult to even tell where the river was, it looked more like a lake. Another three feet and the campground would have been underwater. There wasn’t much land to explore, we settled for an early fire and some marshmallows.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1855.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1855_pic66.jpg" alt="roasting marshmellows over the fire photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1855.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1849.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1849_pic66.jpg" alt="roasting marshmellows over the fire photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1849.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1856.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1856_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1856_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1856_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1856_picwide-med.jpg" alt="high water edisto river photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1856.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<p>The next day we headed the rest of the way out to what I still think of as the <a href="/jrnl/2017/04/edge-continent">edge of the continent</a>. Edisto Island is remote, for the east coast anyway. It’s true, Charleston is only an hour and half away, but somehow Edisto still feels like the edge of the world. </p> +<p>Civilization falls away as you drive. The road winds through alternating stretches of muddy marshland and deep stands of gnarled oak trees, bearded with Spanish Moss. Chain stores and strip malls disappear, replaced by crumbling no-name gas stations, fish shacks, cinder block garages, old single story motels. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0173.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0173_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0173_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0173_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0173_picwide-med.jpg" alt="marshland, edisto island, sc photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0173.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0194.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0194_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0194_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0194_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0194_picwide-med.jpg" alt="oak trees with spanish moss, edisto island, sc photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0194.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0164.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0164_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0164_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0164_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0164_picwide-med.jpg" alt="edisto motel, shot while driving photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0164.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It’s not some idyllic world out here of course. The land and people here are abused like they are everywhere. Environmental destruction and the deep, unsolvable poverty that follows it linger everywhere in the shadows. The ruin of modern systems is always more obvious out here at the leading edges, the places where the supposed benefits never quite reached, just inexhaustible desires. These are the places from which life was extracted to enable comfort in some other place.</p> +<p>There’s a divide. I notice it every time we come down here. You cross a high bridge over the Intercoastal waterway onto Edisto Island proper and everything after that is magically fine, derelict buildings hidden away, poverty pushed off the main highway to some backroad most of us will never take.</p> +<p>Life here is different let’s say. And we’ll leave it at that. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-02_130659_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_130659_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_130659_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_130659_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_130659_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="dodge travco at edisto state beach campground photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-02_130659_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Humans are latecomers here anyway, newcomers to this world of sea and sand and muddy marsh. This is the time of year that other migrants are passing through. Every morning we get to wake to the <em>tea-kett-le, tea-kett-le</em> of Carolina wrens, the <em>chip chip chip</em> of cardinals, and the more elaborate songs of the warblers headed north to their summer homes. I can’t think of a better way to wake up than lifting your head, looking out the window, and seeing a Carolina wren staring back at you. </p> +<p>Our time at the beach here is starkly divided. I am a sitter. To me the beach is a place to come and watch the sea, the sky, the birds. For much of the rest of my family it’s a place to hunt for treasures from previous worlds. While I relaxed, staring up at the blue veil of sky, occasionally given depth by a passing gull or brown pelican, Corrinne and the kids wandered up and down the shore finding fossil shark’s teeth, bones, bits of black, fossilized turtle shells, and thoroughly modern seashells. </p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-13_125328_edisto-beach.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125328_edisto-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125328_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125328_edisto-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125328_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids walking the beach, edisto state park, sc photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-13_125328_edisto-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-11_111550_edisto-beach.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-11_111550_edisto-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-11_111550_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-11_111550_edisto-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-11_111550_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl holding a shell photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-11_111550_edisto-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1934.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1934_pic66.jpg" alt="kids playing on the beach, edisto state beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1934.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1950.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1950_pic66.jpg" alt="kids sitting in an oak tree photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1950.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1864.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1864_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1864_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1864_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1864_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1864_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_1864_picwide.jpg" alt="girls walking on the beach, edisto island state park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_1864.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<p>The temperature always hovered on the edge of warm, usually tipping over by late afternoon.Most days you could find a small depression in the sand to stay out of the breeze and it was warm enough to relax in shorts. Sit up though and the temperature dropped considerably. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-01_151817_edisto-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-01_151817_edisto-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-01_151817_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-01_151817_edisto-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-01_151817_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy playing in the sand, edisto state beach, sc photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-01_151817_edisto-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-01_151756_edisto-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-01_151756_edisto-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-01_151756_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-01_151756_edisto-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-01_151756_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl playing in the sand, edisto state beach, sc photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-01_151756_edisto-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-08_141242_edisto-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-08_141242_edisto-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-08_141242_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-08_141242_edisto-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-08_141242_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="seagull on the beach, close up, edisto state beach, sc photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-08_141242_edisto-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-02_145520_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_145520_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_145520_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_145520_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_145520_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy running on the beach, edisto state beach, sc photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-02_145520_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-02_145734_edisto.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_145734_edisto_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_145734_edisto_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_145734_edisto_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-02_145734_edisto_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl running on the beach, edisto state beach, sc photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-02_145734_edisto.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-08_141323_edisto-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-08_141323_edisto-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-08_141323_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-08_141323_edisto-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-08_141323_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="seagull in flight, edisto beach, sc photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-08_141323_edisto-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I did a lot of staring at the sky. I’m not sure if it’s the act of lying down and looking up, or the actual view of the blue sky, or warmth and light of the sun itself, or some combination of those things and more I haven’t sussed out, but there is something wonderfully cathartic and healing about staring up at the sky.</p> +<p>I did it every chance I got, which alas was not quite as much as the last time we were here. But things change, morph, I wouldn’t want them to stay the same. If they stayed the same it never would have warmed up enough to coax me off my back and out into the water.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-13_125446_edisto-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125446_edisto-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125446_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125446_edisto-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125446_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids running on the shore, edisto state beach photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-13_125446_edisto-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-13_125715_edisto-beach.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125715_edisto-beach_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125715_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125715_edisto-beach_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-13_125715_edisto-beach_picwide-med.jpg" alt="boy jumping on the shoreline photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-13_125715_edisto-beach.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The water was cold, biting cold when the wind hit you after you came up. But you have to get in. And not just when it’s easy, not just when everyone is swimming. </p> +<p>You have to get in even on the days when you don’t want to. Even when it’s so cold your teeth are chattering before you even get your shirt off. Those are the times when you have to reach down inside and find some way to get out there. The ocean pulls me in, it’s part of an understanding I’ve reached with it, with myself. There are certain rituals that must be performed or the world stops working. And so you get in. When it’s cold. When it’s not. It doesn’t matter. 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We managed to book up a month of beach time at some South Carolina State Parks. Everything came together well, weather, work, and bus repairs. Like we did nearly three years ago, we split the drive down into two days. This time we stopped off for a night at a tiny state park on the Edisto River.
+
+<img src="images/2020/DSC_1860.jpg" id="image-2326" class="picwide" />
+
+This part of the country, and upriver of here, has out-rained even the pacific northwest so far this year, and it showed. The river was ten feet over flood stage. It was difficult to even tell where the river was, it looked more like a lake. Another three feet and the campground would have been underwater. There wasn't much land to explore, we settled for an early fire and some marshmallows.
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+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2020/DSC_1855.jpg" id="image-2329" class="cluster pic66" />
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+</span>
+<img src="images/2020/DSC_1856.jpg" id="image-2327" class="cluster picwide" />
+</div>
+
+The next day we headed the rest of the way out to what I still think of as the [edge of the continent](/jrnl/2017/04/edge-continent). Edisto Island is remote, for the east coast anyway. It's true, Charleston is only an hour and half away, but somehow Edisto still feels like the edge of the world.
+
+Civilization falls away as you drive. The road winds through alternating stretches of muddy marshland and deep stands of gnarled oak trees, bearded with Spanish Moss. Chain stores and strip malls disappear, replaced by crumbling no-name gas stations, fish shacks, cinder block garages, old single story motels.
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+<img src="images/2020/DSCF0173.jpg" id="image-2346" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/DSCF0194.jpg" id="image-2345" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/DSCF0164.jpg" id="image-2344" class="picwide" />
+
+It's not some idyllic world out here of course. The land and people here are abused like they are everywhere. Environmental destruction and the deep, unsolvable poverty that follows it linger everywhere in the shadows. The ruin of modern systems is always more obvious out here at the leading edges, the places where the supposed benefits never quite reached, just inexhaustible desires. These are the places from which life was extracted to enable comfort in some other place.
+
+There's a divide. I notice it every time we come down here. You cross a high bridge over the Intercoastal waterway onto Edisto Island proper and everything after that is magically fine, derelict buildings hidden away, poverty pushed off the main highway to some backroad most of us will never take.
+
+Life here is different let's say. And we'll leave it at that.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-02_130659_edisto.jpg" id="image-2332" class="picwide" />
+
+Humans are latecomers here anyway, newcomers to this world of sea and sand and muddy marsh. This is the time of year that other migrants are passing through. Every morning we get to wake to the *tea-kett-le, tea-kett-le* of Carolina wrens, the *chip chip chip* of cardinals, and the more elaborate songs of the warblers headed north to their summer homes. I can't think of a better way to wake up than lifting your head, looking out the window, and seeing a Carolina wren staring back at you.
+
+Our time at the beach here is starkly divided. I am a sitter. To me the beach is a place to come and watch the sea, the sky, the birds. For much of the rest of my family it's a place to hunt for treasures from previous worlds. While I relaxed, staring up at the blue veil of sky, occasionally given depth by a passing gull or brown pelican, Corrinne and the kids wandered up and down the shore finding fossil shark's teeth, bones, bits of black, fossilized turtle shells, and thoroughly modern seashells.
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+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-13_125328_edisto-beach.jpg" id="image-2347" class="cluster picwide" />
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+
+The temperature always hovered on the edge of warm, usually tipping over by late afternoon.Most days you could find a small depression in the sand to stay out of the breeze and it was warm enough to relax in shorts. Sit up though and the temperature dropped considerably.
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+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-01_151817_edisto-beach.jpg" id="image-2331" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-01_151756_edisto-beach.jpg" id="image-2330" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-08_141242_edisto-beach.jpg" id="image-2336" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-02_145520_edisto.jpg" id="image-2333" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-02_145734_edisto.jpg" id="image-2334" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-08_141323_edisto-beach.jpg" id="image-2348" class="picwide" />
+
+I did a lot of staring at the sky. I'm not sure if it's the act of lying down and looking up, or the actual view of the blue sky, or warmth and light of the sun itself, or some combination of those things and more I haven't sussed out, but there is something wonderfully cathartic and healing about staring up at the sky.
+
+I did it every chance I got, which alas was not quite as much as the last time we were here. But things change, morph, I wouldn't want them to stay the same. If they stayed the same it never would have warmed up enough to coax me off my back and out into the water.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-13_125446_edisto-beach.jpg" id="image-2339" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-13_125715_edisto-beach.jpg" id="image-2340" class="picwide" />
+
+The water was cold, biting cold when the wind hit you after you came up. But you have to get in. And not just when it's easy, not just when everyone is swimming.
+
+You have to get in even on the days when you don't want to. Even when it's so cold your teeth are chattering before you even get your shirt off. Those are the times when you have to reach down inside and find some way to get out there. The ocean pulls me in, it's part of an understanding I've reached with it, with myself. There are certain rituals that must be performed or the world stops working. And so you get in. When it's cold. When it's not. It doesn't matter. 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Eventually</h2> + <div class="post-linewrapper"> + <div class="p-location h-adr adr post-location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> + <h3 class="h-adr" itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress"><span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="addressLocality">Hunting Island State Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/jrnl/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name" itemprop="addressCountry">U.S.</span></h3> + – <a href="" onclick="showMap(32.38554823164925, -80.44018688930863, { type:'point', lat:'32.38554823164925', lon:'-80.44018688930863'}); return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2020-03-18T09:21:54" itemprop="datePublished">March <span>18, 2020</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>There are days that are good for driving and days that are not. I prefer Wednesdays. This was a Thursday. Close enough. I took the day off work and we hit the road, back to Athens.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-15_101749_hunting-island.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_101749_hunting-island_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_101749_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_101749_hunting-island_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-15_101749_hunting-island_picwide-med.jpg" alt="on the road from hunting island photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-15_101749_hunting-island.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We didn’t want to go. But to avoid a pandemic you have to be willing to sacrifice. And where we were there were no sacrifices being made. There is a sense of entitlement that runs deep in this country. I can’t figure it out, but I see it all around me — this idea that you can get everything you want out of life without compromise or concession. It’s annoying when you’re talking about politics or economics, but it’s disastrous when it comes to community health.</p> +<p>Staying six feet away from other people is socially awkward, but if that’s all it takes to stop a pandemic, that’s not a big deal for a few months. People spent <em>years</em> avoiding London and Paris during the plague. If all we need to do is stay six feet apart, and remain at home for a few months, we’re getting off light. Unfortunately, even that wasn’t happening in the campground. Rather the opposite in fact.</p> +<p>We’ve already had a <a href="/jrnl/2018/01/escaping-california">bout of bad illness in the bus</a> and let’s just say it’s not an ideal place to be ill. If one person gets something, everyone gets it, there’s no way around that. We were not interested in dealing with that <em>and</em> having South Carolina State Parks close on us. </p> +<p>Our reservation at Hunting Island was up. We’d planned to go back to Edisto for a couple more weeks, but the uncertainty regarding public lands — would state parks in SC stay open? Would we be safe in them? Would groceries continue to make it to a small island at the edge of the world? Would the residents of that island mind our presence if things got real bad? — made it an easy decision. We decided to head for some private land.</p> +<p>Fortunately we had a friend back in Athens with a place we could stay for a while, so we jumped on it. We just had to make the four hour drive back. No big deal.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0074.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0074_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0074_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0074_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0074_picwide-med.jpg" alt="On the road in georgia photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0074.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0065.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0065_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0065_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0065_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0065_picwide-med.jpg" alt="On the road in georgia photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0065.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It started inauspiciously, as stressful drives inevitably do. I was dumping the tank when I noticed the driver’s rear tire was low. There’s two wheels in the back, so I wasn’t overly worried, but it wasn’t a great way to start. Still, it was only a couple hundred miles, what could possibly go wrong?</p> +<p>Nothing for the first 70 or so miles. I even managed to get the rear tire filled up at a truck stop. All my tires in fact. No charge. And the woman stayed well away from me while doing it. Perfect. For minute I thought, hey, maybe this will all work out.</p> +<p>Forty miles later the engine sputtered. At first I thought maybe my foot had let up off the gas pedal by accident. My knee had been swollen and driving was painful, so it wasn’t out of the question. But no. Ten minutes later, it happened again. This time it was worse. I pulled over. Naturally it was the only stretch of the drive with no cell service. </p> +<p>I knew from the way it behaved that the problem was gas, specifically not enough of it getting to the engine. I had a quick look and saw air bubbling into the fuel filter. Not good. I knew there was a little leak in the filling hose at the rear of the gas tank. I decided to start there, I got out old trusty — the rigged up combo of small hose clamps that, along with some aluminum foil and header tape, once let us limp along with a cracked exhaust manifold — and put it to new use on the rear of the gas tank. It stopped the leaking gas (a task I’d had on my list for the following weekend anyway), and for about ten miles I was pretty happy with myself.</p> +<p>Then it happened again. Damnit. Stopped again. Now Corrinne wasn’t just looking at me with that look that said, <em>really? today</em>, she actually said, “Really? Today?” I didn’t say anything. I opened up the doghouse again. There were still bubbles leaking up in the fuel filter, so I knew the problem was somewhere between that and the gas tank. About 18 feet of fuel line and one pump. I put on my headlamp, crawled under the bus, inhaled unholy amounts of grass pollen, and slowly worked my way up the fuel line to the pump. No leaks. I stared at the fuel pump. The very <a href="/jrnl/2016/06/engine">first thing I ever replaced in the bus</a>. It’s probably the fuel pump I thought as I lay there in the pollen. </p> +<p>Under ordinary circumstances I’d just hop in the car, drive to the nearest parts shop, get a new fuel pump and install it. But that would mean all kinds of potential exposure of me and the family to coronavirus. That would defeat the purpose of this drive, which was to get us away from people, not closer to them.</p> +<p>I considered the problem for a bit, lying there, staring up at the engine. If there’s extra air coming in, maybe if I tightened up the carburetor to cut the air coming in that way it would balance out? At least enough to let me limp back to Athens. I crawled out and did it. It didn’t help much — the real problem was not enough fuel, not too much air — but it helped enough that it got us back on the road, limping along. </p> +<p>After experimenting some I figured out how to accelerate in such a way that it would not stutter much and I could get up to about 50 miles an hour. It took a while, but I limped into Augusta. I decided to skip the interstate and drove through on surface streets. It was slow going, but the bus didn’t stutter as much at lower speeds, and eventually we got out of the city and back onto the highway to Athens. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0107.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0107_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0107_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0107_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSCF0107_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Ramshackle house in Georgia photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSCF0107.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>In the end it took an extra three hours, but we made it to the old farmhouse turned schoolhouse where we’ve been staying ever since. I was tired, but grateful to have made it. I squared the bus away, and made dinner. We put the kids to bed, and I went online and ordered a fuel pump from Rock Auto. 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Now, I don’t know you IRL, but personally, I’m swearing up a storm when SHTF. Are you mostly cool, calm, and collected in such circumstances? If so, what got you there? Just experience dealing with these issues in travel over your life, or is it more of a speed of life issue?</p> +<p>Glad you made it to a safe spot!</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-6302" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">May 05, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>classical_liberal-</p> +<p>haha, I definitely do some swearing when I’m under the bus at the side of the road. So there’s some element of me just leaving that out of the story. </p> +<p>It depends on the problem though. For this particular incident, I knew what the problem was, so there was some security in that (worst case scenario I could have gone to a parts place and purchased a fuel pump). When the problem is brake-related, I tend to freak out more, because there’s not much I can do about that at the side of the road.</p> +<p>In general though I think what keeps me calm is two things: experience (at this point we’ve spent many a day broken down at the side of the road, you learn to cope better every time), and having my kids there. I’m always more careful to keep it together when I know the kids are watching. I mean there’s nothing life-threatening in breaking down (usually). Most of the time the worst case scenario is we spend a night at the side of the road. That does suck, but you know, it’ll pass.</p> +<p>That said, I feel like I lose my shit way more than I should. I’ve been re-reading the stoics lately, especially The Enchiridion by Epictetus, because I find some those strategies for coping to be extremely helpful.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-6518" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="default"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/default.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Drew" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b>Drew</b></span> + <span class="when">May 14, 2020 at 3:38 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Yo! Just got caught up on your adventures- now you need to catch us up on how Farm/School living has been treating you! Are you all still there? With school out for the summer- and no end in sight for the virus- how long can you stay there? </p> +<p>Weve been threatening to take the bus camping, but every time I look the parks are overcrowded, esp in TN/GA- if and when they are open.</p> +<p>Sucks too- The bus is running great right now, with no destinations possible. By the time were ready to hit the road, i guarantee the bus will not have the same mindset.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-6731" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">May 25, 2020 at 8:12 a.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>Drew-</p> +<p>We are no longer at the schoolhouse, we only ended up staying there about a month. It was great when we thought we’d get back on the road soon, but not so great long term, so we moved on. I’ll write about that soonish. Oddly enough, we’re in another farm house from roughly the same era. 1880s farmhouses seem to be our thing lately.</p> +<p>And yeah, crowds. I have some thoughts on that. I think crowds are going to be real bad for some time to come, which convinced us it was time to shift gears. 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I prefer Wednesdays. This was a Thursday. Close enough. I took the day off work and we hit the road, back to Athens.
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+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-15_101749_hunting-island.jpg" id="image-2361" class="picwide" />
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+We didn't want to go. But to avoid a pandemic you have to be willing to sacrifice. And where we were there were no sacrifices being made. There is a sense of entitlement that runs deep in this country. I can't figure it out, but I see it all around me -- this idea that you can get everything you want out of life without compromise or concession. It's annoying when you're talking about politics or economics, but it's disastrous when it comes to community health.
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+Staying six feet away from other people is socially awkward, but if that's all it takes to stop a pandemic, that's not a big deal for a few months. People spent *years* avoiding London and Paris during the plague. If all we need to do is stay six feet apart, and remain at home for a few months, we're getting off light. Unfortunately, even that wasn't happening in the campground. Rather the opposite in fact.
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+We've already had a [bout of bad illness in the bus](/jrnl/2018/01/escaping-california) and let's just say it's not an ideal place to be ill. If one person gets something, everyone gets it, there's no way around that. We were not interested in dealing with that *and* having South Carolina State Parks close on us.
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+Our reservation at Hunting Island was up. We'd planned to go back to Edisto for a couple more weeks, but the uncertainty regarding public lands -- would state parks in SC stay open? Would we be safe in them? Would groceries continue to make it to a small island at the edge of the world? Would the residents of that island mind our presence if things got real bad? -- made it an easy decision. We decided to head for some private land.
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+Fortunately we had a friend back in Athens with a place we could stay for a while, so we jumped on it. We just had to make the four hour drive back. No big deal.
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+<img src="images/2020/DSCF0074.jpg" id="image-2363" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/DSCF0065.jpg" id="image-2362" class="picwide" />
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+It started inauspiciously, as stressful drives inevitably do. I was dumping the tank when I noticed the driver's rear tire was low. There's two wheels in the back, so I wasn't overly worried, but it wasn't a great way to start. Still, it was only a couple hundred miles, what could possibly go wrong?
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+Nothing for the first 70 or so miles. I even managed to get the rear tire filled up at a truck stop. All my tires in fact. No charge. And the woman stayed well away from me while doing it. Perfect. For minute I thought, hey, maybe this will all work out.
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+Forty miles later the engine sputtered. At first I thought maybe my foot had let up off the gas pedal by accident. My knee had been swollen and driving was painful, so it wasn't out of the question. But no. Ten minutes later, it happened again. This time it was worse. I pulled over. Naturally it was the only stretch of the drive with no cell service.
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+I knew from the way it behaved that the problem was gas, specifically not enough of it getting to the engine. I had a quick look and saw air bubbling into the fuel filter. Not good. I knew there was a little leak in the filling hose at the rear of the gas tank. I decided to start there, I got out old trusty -- the rigged up combo of small hose clamps that, along with some aluminum foil and header tape, once let us limp along with a cracked exhaust manifold -- and put it to new use on the rear of the gas tank. It stopped the leaking gas (a task I'd had on my list for the following weekend anyway), and for about ten miles I was pretty happy with myself.
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+Then it happened again. Damnit. Stopped again. Now Corrinne wasn't just looking at me with that look that said, *really? today*, she actually said, "Really? Today?" I didn't say anything. I opened up the doghouse again. There were still bubbles leaking up in the fuel filter, so I knew the problem was somewhere between that and the gas tank. About 18 feet of fuel line and one pump. I put on my headlamp, crawled under the bus, inhaled unholy amounts of grass pollen, and slowly worked my way up the fuel line to the pump. No leaks. I stared at the fuel pump. The very [first thing I ever replaced in the bus](/jrnl/2016/06/engine). It's probably the fuel pump I thought as I lay there in the pollen.
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+Under ordinary circumstances I'd just hop in the car, drive to the nearest parts shop, get a new fuel pump and install it. But that would mean all kinds of potential exposure of me and the family to coronavirus. That would defeat the purpose of this drive, which was to get us away from people, not closer to them.
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+I considered the problem for a bit, lying there, staring up at the engine. If there's extra air coming in, maybe if I tightened up the carburetor to cut the air coming in that way it would balance out? At least enough to let me limp back to Athens. I crawled out and did it. It didn't help much -- the real problem was not enough fuel, not too much air -- but it helped enough that it got us back on the road, limping along.
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+After experimenting some I figured out how to accelerate in such a way that it would not stutter much and I could get up to about 50 miles an hour. It took a while, but I limped into Augusta. I decided to skip the interstate and drove through on surface streets. It was slow going, but the bus didn't stutter as much at lower speeds, and eventually we got out of the city and back onto the highway to Athens.
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+<img src="images/2020/DSCF0107.jpg" id="image-2364" class="picwide" />
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+In the end it took an extra three hours, but we made it to the old farmhouse turned schoolhouse where we've been staying ever since. I was tired, but grateful to have made it. I squared the bus away, and made dinner. We put the kids to bed, and I went online and ordered a fuel pump from Rock Auto. 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return false;" title="see a map">Map</a> + </div> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post-date" datetime="2020-04-18T09:35:08" itemprop="datePublished">April <span>18, 2020</span></time> + <span class="hide" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">by <a class="p-author h-card" href="/about"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></a></span> + </div> + </header> + <div id="article" class="e-content entry-content post--body post--body--single" itemprop="articleBody"> + <p>April 1, 2020 marked three years on the road for us.</p> +<p>For all practical purposes our time on the road really ended in October 2018 when we <a href="/jrnl/2018/09/big-exit">flew to Mexico</a>. After that we’ve continued to live in the bus, but we haven’t traveled like we did those first 18 months. Still, three years of traveling and living in the bus is far longer than we intended <a href="https://live.luxagraf.net/jrnl/2017/04/april-fools">when we set out</a>. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2017-06-16_102451_trinidad-and-around.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2017-06-16_102451_trinidad-and-around_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2017-06-16_102451_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2017-06-16_102451_trinidad-and-around_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2017-06-16_102451_trinidad-and-around_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Driving into Colorado photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2017-06-16_102451_trinidad-and-around.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Living in the bus was always about far more than traveling. It would not be inaccurate to say that traveling was really a byproduct of living in the bus. A nice fringe benefit if you will. </p> +<p>More importantly living in the bus was more about stepping outside, literally and figuratively. Stepping back from life, taking stock, and critically evaluating the assumptions that had been handed to me about how to live a good life. </p> +<p>Do you need a house to live a good life? What about a car? What about a refrigerator? What about a fixed address? What about a phone? Oven? Books? Speedometer?</p> +<p>Living in the bus very quickly became about living with less. When you have less than 160 square feet of space — with only about a third of that truly “livable” — everything becomes about doing more with less. That’s what we wanted to learn how to do, which is why the bus was perfect.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest_picwide-med.jpg" alt="inside the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It eliminated a lot of things by necessity. We did without and got to see if any of that stuff mattered. It is one thing to sit around and wish you could get rid of things because they cost money or you think you might be able to get along without them.</p> +<p>It’s another story entirely to actually do it. </p> +<p>Living in the bus provided a way to experiment in doing without, but offset any sense of loss with the adventure and excitement of travel and living on the road. If you want to eliminate something and learn to do without it, fill that open niche in the ecosystem of your life with something you <em>do</em> want. Otherwise the weeds will take over.</p> +<p>You might miss having a hot bath for instance, but you know, it’s also nice to be sitting here on this perfect white sand beach in the Gulf of Mexico. Or you can think, gosh I’d really love to have some ice in this drink, but… since I was willing to forgo it I get to sit here in the amazing smelling pine forest 8000 feet up in the mountains of Colorado watching thunderstorms roll in all afternoon. And I could get ice actually, but I no longer need it.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands_picwide-med.jpg" alt="lifitng elliott high above the waves photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It’s harder to notice what’s missing when you’re surrounded by the beauty of the world. You spend less time thinking of what you miss when you can’t wait to see what’s over the next hill. It also helps to know you couldn’t get over the next hill — you can’t have that feeling of freedom and peace — without having given up those old requirements. </p> +<p>So your mindset shifts over time. The things that you were “giving up” turn out to be things you don’t need. There’s no giving up in the end, you free yourself of those unnecessary burdens — those burdens you didn’t even realize were burdens.</p> +<p>I could see the beginnings of this before we left. I could read it in between the lines of some of the long term travelers I follow, like Rolf Potts, Wade Sheppard, the Bumfuzzle crew, and others. But you don’t really know something until you live it yourself. Happily, I was right. And it grows. The further you go, the more any sense of loss fades and the sense of gain grows. </p> +<p>Having less became really wonderful quite quickly. By the time we made it to <a href="/jrnl/2017/04/gulf-islands-national-seashore">Fort Pickens the first time</a>, about a month into our trip, I don’t think we were missing anything. And we didn’t have solar power, a water tank, or even a working shower yet.</p> +<p>To even get on the road in the first place we had to get rid of a ton of stuff. And that is helpful, but I think it was more important to take that step back, to, as I said above, think critically about the assumptions your culture has handed you, and to question those assumptions. Once you do that deliberately for a while it becomes second nature. You start to look at everything a little sideways. </p> +<p>So we questioned everything, trying to look at it sideways and see if there was another way to solve the problem. In doing so we learned all kinds of things about how we live. Do we need a large living space? No. Provided we have a large outdoor space we don’t really need any more than a place to sleep and get out of the rain. Did we really need an extra car? No. Do we really need air conditioning? No, but it can be really nice at times. How about refrigeration? No, but again, nice for some things. The list here is very long, but you get the idea. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_194321_patricks-point.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194321_patricks-point_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194321_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194321_patricks-point_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194321_patricks-point_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194321_patricks-point_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-10-26_194321_patricks-point_picwide.jpg" alt="pacific ocean, patrick's point, humbolt photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-10-26_194321_patricks-point.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It took a bit longer to extract overarching principles from these small lessons, but I think there are two very important things I’ve taken away from this experience so far. </p> +<p>The first principle is: accept the environment for what it is and learn to live in it. </p> +<p>One of our unspoken cultural values is that we can shape the environment the way we want it and that this is good. This is barely-consciously a part of our daily lives in very subtle, seldom-noticed ways. Take air conditioning for example. For the entirety of human history no one had air conditioning. Somehow, those people did not all expire of heat exhaustion<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. </p> +<p>If you don’t turn on the air conditioning, eventually you won’t need it. The first time you get hot make it a point to sweat. Deal with a little discomfort and let your body adapt to the heat. In the end you’ll be cooler and have no dependency on air conditioning. This frees you up to explore and exist in places others cannot. You body is phenomenally well-designed, it is capable of miraculous things if you give it a chance to adapt. </p> +<p>This principle — adapting to, rather than changing, the environment — also applies at the micro level. Don’t change the environment around you by adding an extra fork, wash the one you have. Don’t bother fixing your oven, <a href="/essay/waffle-world">buy a waffle iron</a>. And so on. This is something that, once I saw it, I was never able to unsee it. I see it everywhere I look in the world, ways to make do without abound when you’re looking for them.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-04-12_131425_winterville.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-04-12_131425_winterville_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-04-12_131425_winterville_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-04-12_131425_winterville_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-04-12_131425_winterville_picwide-med.jpg" alt="banana bread chocolate chip waffles. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-04-12_131425_winterville.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Banana bread chocolate chip waffles."> + </a> +<figcaption>Banana bread chocolate chip waffles.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>The second principle is really just an extension of the first: stop worrying about what you can’t control.</p> +<p>How do you do that? You learn to adapt to things. You let go of the need to make the “right” choice and you make the best choice you can based on the best information you have at the time. You make a choice and you move on. You can always adjust and chose differently when conditions change.</p> +<p>Are you going to make it to that campsite you wanted to get to? Maybe? Maybe not? Okay, then where are we going? Well, on the map there’s something over there… let’s try that. If I had a dollar for every time this played out I could buy you a couple dozen tacos.</p> +<p>Are you going to have enough water to stay another night? Maybe? Are the tanks full? Maybe? There are dozens of unknowns like this every day in traveling, you either make peace with the uncertainty of it or you become stressed out and miserable. It’s not for everyone. </p> +<p>It’s not a matter of solving all the unknowns. That’s not an option. There are always more of them. You have to learn to be at peace with them because you know you can adapt. That is peace, knowing that whatever happens, you’re going to adapt to it.</p> +<p>That’s not to say I don’t have moments of stress and misery because my world falls apart. I would actually say there’s been far more world falling apart situations on the road than there ever were before. If your house has a engine, expect your world to fall apart frequently.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Dolores River photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Part of adapting is learning when you <em>should</em> do something. Traveling has made me very suspicious of myself whenever I say “no”. Whenever I don’t do something I force myself to stop and think, why not? Why not go swim in the river with the kids? Why not take a walk to watch the birds at dusk? Why not sit around the campfire half the night? Too many times there is no good reason for not doing it. It’s painful to admit, but sometimes I’m essentially refusing to go swimming because I don’t have a towel. That’s crazy.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2002-12-08_120000-27__.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2002-12-08_120000-27___picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2002-12-08_120000-27___picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2002-12-08_120000-27___picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2002-12-08_120000-27___picwide-med.jpg" alt="broken axle bolts photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2002-12-08_120000-27__.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>That said, sometimes the answer to the question <em>why not?</em> is <em>because your axle is falling off genius</em>. The picture above is of our rear axle mount, which supports about 5000 pounds, with three of the four pins sheared off. I don’t care how comfortable you get with uncertainty, how much you can push aside worry, how much you say yes to, there’s no way to stop yourself from freaking out when your axle hangs by a single, obviously weak pin. Ditto when your head gasket blows and takes out a cylinder, or when you run out of money in Mexico, or any of the other things that will come up in life whether you travel or not. There are times you will not be able to stop yourself from worrying to some degree.</p> +<p>What I’ve learned is that the things worth worrying about are fewer and farther between with every passing year. After the axle almost broke and the head gasket blew, I wasn’t all that concerned when the exhaust manifold cracked in half. I’ve built a tolerance perhaps. </p> +<p>I’ve also learned that worry is often a way of avoiding the work that needs to be done. Worry and stress don’t fix anything.</p> +<p>If you want to have any control over which future you get, you have to figure out how to turn your worry into action. You have to stop freaking out and get to work. When your axle mount is about to shear off you have to turn that worry (actually more terror in that case) into action. Call a tow truck. Call a friend. Call everyone you know. In our case, <a href="/jrnl/2017/10/trains-hot-springs-and-broken-buses">my uncle came to our rescue</a>). When there’s a pandemic and you have nowhere to park your rig, figure out your options, pick the best one, and make it happen. Call a friend. Call everyone you know. Spend all day pouring over Zillow and Craigslist. Do whatever you need to do to find the solution. </p> +<p>Someone said to me the other day that things always seem to work out for us. I won’t argue, but I take except to the implication that this is solely the result of luck. We are very lucky, and yes that does help, but to be completely honest the main reason we’ve had so much good “luck” is because Corrinne works very hard to make things happen for us. </p> +<p>I might write more about coaxing the engine along, but she’s the one who spends long hours solving all the other, much more frequent problems we encounter, like where to live in Mexico, what to do when the budget has to stretch farther than you thought, or where to go and what to do when the world shuts down. To figure those things out you have to set aside the worry and do the hard work.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>It is true that in many case their homes were more intelligently constructed than ours, and they understood their land and its microclimates at lot better than we did, which gave them more ways to escape the heat. These are things worth exploring should you decide you want to free yourself of tyranny of air conditioning. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +</ol> +</div> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>American Robin </li> + + <li>Blue Jay </li> + + <li>Brown-headed Cowbird </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/brown-thrasher">Brown Thrasher</a> </li> + + <li>Canada Goose </li> + + <li>Carolina Chickadee </li> + + <li>Chipping Sparrow </li> + + <li>Downy Woodpecker </li> + + <li>Eastern Bluebird </li> + + <li>Eastern Towhee </li> + + <li>Gray Catbird </li> + + <li>Great Blue Heron </li> + + <li>Hooded Warbler </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-mockingbird">Northern Mockingbird</a> </li> + + <li>Red-bellied Woodpecker </li> + + 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+
+For all practical purposes our time on the road really ended in October 2018 when we [flew to Mexico](/jrnl/2018/09/big-exit). After that we've continued to live in the bus, but we haven't traveled like we did those first 18 months. Still, three years of traveling and living in the bus is far longer than we intended [when we set out](https://live.luxagraf.net/jrnl/2017/04/april-fools).
+
+<img src="images/2020/2017-06-16_102451_trinidad-and-around.jpg" id="image-2365" class="picwide" />
+
+Living in the bus was always about far more than traveling. It would not be inaccurate to say that traveling was really a byproduct of living in the bus. A nice fringe benefit if you will.
+
+More importantly living in the bus was more about stepping outside, literally and figuratively. Stepping back from life, taking stock, and critically evaluating the assumptions that had been handed to me about how to live a good life.
+
+Do you need a house to live a good life? What about a car? What about a refrigerator? What about a fixed address? What about a phone? Oven? Books? Speedometer?
+
+Living in the bus very quickly became about living with less. When you have less than 160 square feet of space -- with only about a third of that truly "livable" -- everything becomes about doing more with less. That's what we wanted to learn how to do, which is why the bus was perfect.
+
+<img src="images/original/2017/2017-10-23_165008_shasta-forest.jpg" id="image-931" class="picwide" />
+
+It eliminated a lot of things by necessity. We did without and got to see if any of that stuff mattered. It is one thing to sit around and wish you could get rid of things because they cost money or you think you might be able to get along without them.
+
+It's another story entirely to actually do it.
+
+Living in the bus provided a way to experiment in doing without, but offset any sense of loss with the adventure and excitement of travel and living on the road. If you want to eliminate something and learn to do without it, fill that open niche in the ecosystem of your life with something you *do* want. Otherwise the weeds will take over.
+
+You might miss having a hot bath for instance, but you know, it's also nice to be sitting here on this perfect white sand beach in the Gulf of Mexico. Or you can think, gosh I'd really love to have some ice in this drink, but... since I was willing to forgo it I get to sit here in the amazing smelling pine forest 8000 feet up in the mountains of Colorado watching thunderstorms roll in all afternoon. And I could get ice actually, but I no longer need it.
+
+<img src="images/original/2017/2017-04-27_123622_gulf-islands.jpg" id="image-388" class="picwide" />
+
+It's harder to notice what's missing when you're surrounded by the beauty of the world. You spend less time thinking of what you miss when you can't wait to see what's over the next hill. It also helps to know you couldn't get over the next hill -- you can't have that feeling of freedom and peace -- without having given up those old requirements.
+
+So your mindset shifts over time. The things that you were "giving up" turn out to be things you don't need. There's no giving up in the end, you free yourself of those unnecessary burdens -- those burdens you didn't even realize were burdens.
+
+I could see the beginnings of this before we left. I could read it in between the lines of some of the long term travelers I follow, like Rolf Potts, Wade Sheppard, the Bumfuzzle crew, and others. But you don't really know something until you live it yourself. Happily, I was right. And it grows. The further you go, the more any sense of loss fades and the sense of gain grows.
+
+Having less became really wonderful quite quickly. By the time we made it to [Fort Pickens the first time](/jrnl/2017/04/gulf-islands-national-seashore), about a month into our trip, I don't think we were missing anything. And we didn't have solar power, a water tank, or even a working shower yet.
+
+To even get on the road in the first place we had to get rid of a ton of stuff. And that is helpful, but I think it was more important to take that step back, to, as I said above, think critically about the assumptions your culture has handed you, and to question those assumptions. Once you do that deliberately for a while it becomes second nature. You start to look at everything a little sideways.
+
+So we questioned everything, trying to look at it sideways and see if there was another way to solve the problem. In doing so we learned all kinds of things about how we live. Do we need a large living space? No. Provided we have a large outdoor space we don't really need any more than a place to sleep and get out of the rain. Did we really need an extra car? No. Do we really need air conditioning? No, but it can be really nice at times. How about refrigeration? No, but again, nice for some things. The list here is very long, but you get the idea.
+
+<img src="images/original/2017/2017-10-26_194321_patricks-point.jpg" id="image-938" class="picwide" />
+
+It took a bit longer to extract overarching principles from these small lessons, but I think there are two very important things I've taken away from this experience so far.
+
+The first principle is: accept the environment for what it is and learn to live in it.
+
+One of our unspoken cultural values is that we can shape the environment the way we want it and that this is good. This is barely-consciously a part of our daily lives in very subtle, seldom-noticed ways. Take air conditioning for example. For the entirety of human history no one had air conditioning. Somehow, those people did not all expire of heat exhaustion[^1].
+
+If you don't turn on the air conditioning, eventually you won't need it. The first time you get hot make it a point to sweat. Deal with a little discomfort and let your body adapt to the heat. In the end you'll be cooler and have no dependency on air conditioning. This frees you up to explore and exist in places others cannot. You body is phenomenally well-designed, it is capable of miraculous things if you give it a chance to adapt.
+
+This principle -- adapting to, rather than changing, the environment -- also applies at the micro level. Don't change the environment around you by adding an extra fork, wash the one you have. Don't bother fixing your oven, [buy a waffle iron](/essay/waffle-world). And so on. This is something that, once I saw it, I was never able to unsee it. I see it everywhere I look in the world, ways to make do without abound when you're looking for them.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2020-04-12_131425_winterville.jpg" id="image-2366" class="picwide caption" />
+
+The second principle is really just an extension of the first: stop worrying about what you can't control.
+
+How do you do that? You learn to adapt to things. You let go of the need to make the "right" choice and you make the best choice you can based on the best information you have at the time. You make a choice and you move on. You can always adjust and chose differently when conditions change.
+
+Are you going to make it to that campsite you wanted to get to? Maybe? Maybe not? Okay, then where are we going? Well, on the map there's something over there... let's try that. If I had a dollar for every time this played out I could buy you a couple dozen tacos.
+
+Are you going to have enough water to stay another night? Maybe? Are the tanks full? Maybe? There are dozens of unknowns like this every day in traveling, you either make peace with the uncertainty of it or you become stressed out and miserable. It's not for everyone.
+
+It's not a matter of solving all the unknowns. That's not an option. There are always more of them. You have to learn to be at peace with them because you know you can adapt. That is peace, knowing that whatever happens, you're going to adapt to it.
+
+That's not to say I don't have moments of stress and misery because my world falls apart. I would actually say there's been far more world falling apart situations on the road than there ever were before. If your house has a engine, expect your world to fall apart frequently.
+
+<img src="images/original/2017/2017-08-07_161821-1_dolores-river.jpg" id="image-725" class="picwide" />
+
+Part of adapting is learning when you *should* do something. Traveling has made me very suspicious of myself whenever I say "no". Whenever I don't do something I force myself to stop and think, why not? Why not go swim in the river with the kids? Why not take a walk to watch the birds at dusk? Why not sit around the campfire half the night? Too many times there is no good reason for not doing it. It's painful to admit, but sometimes I'm essentially refusing to go swimming because I don't have a towel. That's crazy.
+
+<img src="images/2020/2002-12-08_120000-27__.jpg" id="image-2367" class="picwide" />
+
+That said, sometimes the answer to the question *why not?* is *because your axle is falling off genius*. The picture above is of our rear axle mount, which supports about 5000 pounds, with three of the four pins sheared off. I don't care how comfortable you get with uncertainty, how much you can push aside worry, how much you say yes to, there's no way to stop yourself from freaking out when your axle hangs by a single, obviously weak pin. Ditto when your head gasket blows and takes out a cylinder, or when you run out of money in Mexico, or any of the other things that will come up in life whether you travel or not. There are times you will not be able to stop yourself from worrying to some degree.
+
+What I've learned is that the things worth worrying about are fewer and farther between with every passing year. After the axle almost broke and the head gasket blew, I wasn't all that concerned when the exhaust manifold cracked in half. I've built a tolerance perhaps.
+
+I've also learned that worry is often a way of avoiding the work that needs to be done. Worry and stress don't fix anything.
+
+If you want to have any control over which future you get, you have to figure out how to turn your worry into action. You have to stop freaking out and get to work. When your axle mount is about to shear off you have to turn that worry (actually more terror in that case) into action. Call a tow truck. Call a friend. Call everyone you know. In our case, [my uncle came to our rescue](/jrnl/2017/10/trains-hot-springs-and-broken-buses)). When there's a pandemic and you have nowhere to park your rig, figure out your options, pick the best one, and make it happen. Call a friend. Call everyone you know. Spend all day pouring over Zillow and Craigslist. Do whatever you need to do to find the solution.
+
+Someone said to me the other day that things always seem to work out for us. I won't argue, but I take except to the implication that this is solely the result of luck. We are very lucky, and yes that does help, but to be completely honest the main reason we've had so much good "luck" is because Corrinne works very hard to make things happen for us.
+
+I might write more about coaxing the engine along, but she's the one who spends long hours solving all the other, much more frequent problems we encounter, like where to live in Mexico, what to do when the budget has to stretch farther than you thought, or where to go and what to do when the world shuts down. To figure those things out you have to set aside the worry and do the hard work.
+
+[^1]: It is true that in many case their homes were more intelligently constructed than ours, and they understood their land and its microclimates at lot better than we did, which gave them more ways to escape the heat. 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It was hot, the middle of summer in the Utah desert. I waded out into the cold water and floated along for a while, half my body in the Yampa River, half in the Green River. </p> +<p>The Green River was true to its name. The Yampa was muddy brown. The brown and green waters met at a surprisingly sharp line you could see and feel.</p> +<div class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/Yampa-Green-Confluence.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, (min-width: 751) 750px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/Yampa-Green-Confluence_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/Yampa-Green-Confluence_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="Confluence of the Yampa and Green Rivers, Utah photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/Yampa-Green-Confluence.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>I floated along for maybe five minutes. Ten at the most. It was a pit stop on a long day’s paddle, but I think about that confluence all the time. I think about how sharp the division was there, and how utterly it vanished two hundred meters further down the channel. Two very large, incomprehensibly powerful things join together and become one in a matter of feet. </p> +<p>What’s perhaps more startling, having started out on only one river, is to suddenly see that second one join in. A world you didn’t even know existed suddenly arrives and blends into what you thought was the world. Everything changes in an instant and then carries on toward the sea as if nothing happened. Rivers of thought, rivers of possibilities, rivers of history, rivers of choice all coming together, opening and closing worlds in ways that are sometimes difficult to predict. Everything always heading toward the sea.</p> +<hr> +<p>We spent some time at the beginning of the pandemic lockdown in an old farmhouse that had been converted into a schoolhouse. It seemed in keeping with our general strategy that, when the world zigs, you should zag. In a world where no one was going to school anymore, our kids, who have never been to school in their lives, suddenly lived in one. Zig, zag.</p> +<p>While everyone else struggled to entertain their kids at home, ours suddenly had access to swing sets, climbing structures, stages for plays and magic shows, and every STEM-related learning toy and tool you can imagine. There was even a zip line. From my kids point of view, for a few weeks, the pandemic was the best thing that had ever happened to them.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-21_151255_double-helix-school.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-21_151255_double-helix-school_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-21_151255_double-helix-school_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-21_151255_double-helix-school_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-21_151255_double-helix-school_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids stitting on a climber photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-21_151255_double-helix-school.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-26_162928_double-helix-school.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-26_162928_double-helix-school_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-26_162928_double-helix-school_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-26_162928_double-helix-school_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-26_162928_double-helix-school_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Kids putting on a magic show on a stage photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-26_162928_double-helix-school.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-21_150000_double-helix-school.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-21_150000_double-helix-school_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-21_150000_double-helix-school_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-21_150000_double-helix-school_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/2020-03-21_150000_double-helix-school_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids on a zip line photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/2020-03-21_150000_double-helix-school.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2043.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2043_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2043_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2043_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2043_picwide-med.jpg" alt="girl riding a zip line photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2043.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We tried to make the best of things and not let the pandemic intrude on the kids’ life too much. We were isolated of course, no campground playmates to run and bike around with, no campground even, but otherwise we tried to stick with our normal routines — school and work in the mornings, playing outside, climbing trees, zip lines, swings in the afternoon. Then after the kids were in bed I finished up work. Naturally there was plenty of time for waffling.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2087.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2087_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2087_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2087_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2087_picwide-med.jpg" alt="kids reading books photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2087.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + <span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2126.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2126_pic66.jpg" alt="girl climbing tree photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2126.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2127.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2127_pic66.jpg" alt="girl climbing tree photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2127.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + </span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2077.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2077_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2077_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2077_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2077_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing guitar orangewood oliver jr photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2077.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + <span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2062.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2062_pic66.jpg" alt="Waffle iron grilled cheese photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2062.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2131.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2131_pic66.jpg" alt="boy playing chess photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2131.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + </span> +</div> + +<p>When it became apparent that the lockdown would last more than a few weeks, we started looking around for a place to hole up a while. The school house lacked beds, and its future was uncertain. It also had a ghost that liked to walk around smoking a cigarette.</p> +<p>As so often has happened to us in our travels, someone we barely knew offered us a place to stay. We took them up on it for a few weeks while we tossed around ideas for the future beyond that. </p> +<p>It turned out to be a perfect place for us, plenty of room for the bus, and a huge yard for the kids to play in. There was even fancy stuff like an oven, which we used to make brownies, because brownies don’t work in a waffle iron, we’ve tried.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2198.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2198_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2198_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2198_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2198_picwide-med.jpg" alt="playing in the yard photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2198.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + <span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2179.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2179_pic66.jpg" alt="kids painting photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2179.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2339.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2339_pic66.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2339.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + </span> + <span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2149.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2149_pic66.jpg" alt="combing photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2149.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2385.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DSC_2385_pic66.jpg" alt="brownies photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DSC_2385.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + </span> +</div> + +<p>We toyed with a variety of plans, but we’re more strategy people. Broad sweeping life aims are pretty well defined around here. We know what we want, but there are a lot of ways to get what you want. </p> +<p>Consider for instance this trip. We had a few goals, but one of the biggest things that’s emerged over time is that we like to spend time in the wilderness, undisturbed by the trappings of modern culture. A plan to achieve this would be to look at BLM land and maps. A strategy to achieve this would be to modify your life in such a way that you can get to the BLM land, or get it to you.</p> +<p>One day Corrinne ran across a Zillow listing for an 19th century farmhouse for rent in the middle of a 300-acre forest. I dismissed it out of hand because real estate descriptions are usually nothing but lies. Still, it did get me thinking. Thinking strategically. Instead of wondering when we’d get back on the road again, I began to wonder if getting back on the road again was the best strategy.</p> +<p>What if you could rent the wilderness for a while? Bring the wilderness to you so to speak.</p> +<p>Those two rivers swirled around me for a while. On one hand there was the comfort of the familiar, life in the bus. But <a href="/jrnl/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again">you can’t go home again</a>, things are always changing. With international travel largely shutdown we knew people would turn to camping. RV sales went up 600% in April 2020. This year is shaping up to be an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September">Eternal September</a> for RVing in the U.S. and I was not at all sure I wanted to be part of that.</p> +<p>There was also a parallel current that’s been pulling at me for some time, one that seems to want me away from the road for a while. We flirted with this in Mexico, but that didn’t work out quite the way we wanted. We were not able to get the things done that we intended to get done. At the end of the day, we were still on the road in Mexico.</p> +<p>One of the strange things about writing about travel is that it’s very tough to do when you’re actually traveling. To write you need long uninterrupted periods of nothingness, which travel generally fails to provide. Most writers I know travel in bursts, then retreat to write about it. And to be clear, I mean writing longer projects. Creating a site like this on the road is a lot of work, but it happens in short bursts so it’s not too tough to do.</p> +<p>Eventually, these two streams for ideas began to mingle. Both Corrinne and I have projects we want to get off the ground that we just can’t swing from the road. And that property? It turns out the description wasn’t all lies. It really was an old farmhouse in the middle of 300 acres of pine forest.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DJI_0149.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DJI_0149_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DJI_0149_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DJI_0149_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DJI_0149_picwide-med.jpg" alt="farmhouse from the air photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DJI_0149.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DJI_0147.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DJI_0147_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DJI_0147_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DJI_0147_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DJI_0147_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DJI_0147_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2020/DJI_0147_picwide.jpg" alt="pine forest from the air photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2020/DJI_0147.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + </div> + + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" class="page-border-top"> + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2020/04/reflections" rel="prev" title=" Reflections">Reflections</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + <div class="article-afterward related"> + <div class="related-bottom"> + <h6 class="hedtinycaps">You might also enjoy</h6> + <ul class="article-card-list"> + <li class="article-card-mini"><a href="/essay/waffle-world" title="Waffle the World"> + <div class="post-image post-mini-image"> + + <img sizes="(max-width: 728px) 100vw, (min-width: 729px) 520px" + srcset="/media/images/2017/2017-05-22_150233_huntsville-tx_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w, /media/images/2017/2017-05-22_150233_huntsville-tx_picwide-sm.jpg 720w" + src="/media/images/2017/2017-05-22_150233_huntsville-tx_featured_jrnl.jpg" + alt="waffle cake! 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Can’t wait to find out how this works.</p> + + </div> + </div> + + <div id="comment-7449" class="comment"> + <noscript class="datahashloader" data-hash="d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac"> + <img class="gravatar" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/gravcache/d64f4854965b2b1c3ecafee4b2a66fac.jpg" alt="gravatar icon for Scott" /> + </noscript> + <div class="comment--head"> + <span class="who"><b><a href="https://luxagraf.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott</a></b></span> + <span class="when">July 26, 2020 at 9:30 p.m.</span> + </div> + + <div class="comment--body"> + + <p>@gwen- haha, I enjoy dropping things like that in there. Unfortunately, there’s not a whole lot more to the story. It happened quite frequently, we’d be sitting there, inside, all the windows closed because the pollen was insane outside, and out of nowhere all the sudden all of us would smell cigarette smoke. There was no one else around. I went out and walked around the property once just to make sure. Then I realized the room we stayed in was an add on that had enclosed what would have originally been the back porch, where presumably people would have sat and smoked. Then, when we were looking for a place to stay, we ran across an ad that mentioned this phenomena in the exact same context, different house. But again it was a ~100-year-old house where the porch had been enclosed. The current owners smelled smoke on a regular basis. As this ad said, ‘yes there’s a ghost that smokes, no we don’t mess with it, it doesn’t mess with us’, which pretty well describes our experience as well. ¯_(ツ)_/¯</p> +<p>So far no ghosts smoking or otherwise were we are now.</p> +<p>@jake- We like to keep people guessing. But so far it’s working out great. Corrinne is much more industrious than me. She’s already almost done with what she wanted to do. 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It was hot, the middle of summer in the Utah desert. I waded out into the cold water and floated along for a while, half my body in the Yampa River, half in the Green River.
+
+The Green River was true to its name. The Yampa was muddy brown. The brown and green waters met at a surprisingly sharp line you could see and feel.
+
+<img src="images/2020/Yampa-Green-Confluence.jpg" id="image-2368" class="picfull" />
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+I floated along for maybe five minutes. Ten at the most. It was a pit stop on a long day's paddle, but I think about that confluence all the time. I think about how sharp the division was there, and how utterly it vanished two hundred meters further down the channel. Two very large, incomprehensibly powerful things join together and become one in a matter of feet.
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+What's perhaps more startling, having started out on only one river, is to suddenly see that second one join in. A world you didn't even know existed suddenly arrives and blends into what you thought was the world. Everything changes in an instant and then carries on toward the sea as if nothing happened. Rivers of thought, rivers of possibilities, rivers of history, rivers of choice all coming together, opening and closing worlds in ways that are sometimes difficult to predict. Everything always heading toward the sea.
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+We spent some time at the beginning of the pandemic lockdown in an old farmhouse that had been converted into a schoolhouse. It seemed in keeping with our general strategy that, when the world zigs, you should zag. In a world where no one was going to school anymore, our kids, who have never been to school in their lives, suddenly lived in one. Zig, zag.
+
+While everyone else struggled to entertain their kids at home, ours suddenly had access to swing sets, climbing structures, stages for plays and magic shows, and every STEM-related learning toy and tool you can imagine. There was even a zip line. From my kids point of view, for a few weeks, the pandemic was the best thing that had ever happened to them.
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+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-21_151255_double-helix-school.jpg" id="image-2370" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-26_162928_double-helix-school.jpg" id="image-2371" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/2020-03-21_150000_double-helix-school.jpg" id="image-2369" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2020/DSC_2043.jpg" id="image-2372" class="picwide" />
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+We tried to make the best of things and not let the pandemic intrude on the kids' life too much. We were isolated of course, no campground playmates to run and bike around with, no campground even, but otherwise we tried to stick with our normal routines -- school and work in the mornings, playing outside, climbing trees, zip lines, swings in the afternoon. Then after the kids were in bed I finished up work. Naturally there was plenty of time for waffling.
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+When it became apparent that the lockdown would last more than a few weeks, we started looking around for a place to hole up a while. The school house lacked beds, and its future was uncertain. It also had a ghost that liked to walk around smoking a cigarette.
+
+As so often has happened to us in our travels, someone we barely knew offered us a place to stay. We took them up on it for a few weeks while we tossed around ideas for the future beyond that.
+
+It turned out to be a perfect place for us, plenty of room for the bus, and a huge yard for the kids to play in. There was even fancy stuff like an oven, which we used to make brownies, because brownies don't work in a waffle iron, we've tried.
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+
+We toyed with a variety of plans, but we're more strategy people. Broad sweeping life aims are pretty well defined around here. We know what we want, but there are a lot of ways to get what you want.
+
+Consider for instance this trip. We had a few goals, but one of the biggest things that's emerged over time is that we like to spend time in the wilderness, undisturbed by the trappings of modern culture. A plan to achieve this would be to look at BLM land and maps. A strategy to achieve this would be to modify your life in such a way that you can get to the BLM land, or get it to you.
+
+One day Corrinne ran across a Zillow listing for an 19th century farmhouse for rent in the middle of a 300-acre forest. I dismissed it out of hand because real estate descriptions are usually nothing but lies. Still, it did get me thinking. Thinking strategically. Instead of wondering when we'd get back on the road again, I began to wonder if getting back on the road again was the best strategy.
+
+What if you could rent the wilderness for a while? Bring the wilderness to you so to speak.
+
+Those two rivers swirled around me for a while. On one hand there was the comfort of the familiar, life in the bus. But [you can't go home again](/jrnl/2008/06/you-cant-go-home-again), things are always changing. With international travel largely shutdown we knew people would turn to camping. RV sales went up 600% in April 2020. This year is shaping up to be an [Eternal September](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September) for RVing in the U.S. and I was not at all sure I wanted to be part of that.
+
+There was also a parallel current that's been pulling at me for some time, one that seems to want me away from the road for a while. We flirted with this in Mexico, but that didn't work out quite the way we wanted. We were not able to get the things done that we intended to get done. At the end of the day, we were still on the road in Mexico.
+
+One of the strange things about writing about travel is that it's very tough to do when you're actually traveling. To write you need long uninterrupted periods of nothingness, which travel generally fails to provide. Most writers I know travel in bursts, then retreat to write about it. And to be clear, I mean writing longer projects. Creating a site like this on the road is a lot of work, but it happens in short bursts so it's not too tough to do.
+
+Eventually, these two streams for ideas began to mingle. Both Corrinne and I have projects we want to get off the ground that we just can't swing from the road. And that property? It turns out the description wasn't all lies. It really was an old farmhouse in the middle of 300 acres of pine forest.
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+<img src="images/2020/DJI_0149.jpg" id="image-2384" class="picwide" />
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