Easy day as it is Monday and a first official work-on-the-road day for me. I set up shop on a picnic chair near the river and only move to follow a shady spot. For the day’s meetings my background is Arkansas River and no, it is not MS Teams new fake background. The camp has …
Ambitious day. I attempt to not burn breakfast in the morning and we lift off to, first, meet Eric and Barry at the Nashville farmers market and eat ice cream at Jenny’s there (truly remarkable ice cream… I regret I did not try their goat cheese and cherry flavor) and then be back on the …
Tamara is in the bathing suit even before breakfast. Girls drag us back into the lake as we desperately try to finish our coffees. We are in luck. Everyone is still asleep and we have the whole beach and the lake to ourselves. We swim, meditate in the water. Girls spend some time chasing a …
Sol is up before 6 and we are back on the road with kids finishing their sleep on the back seat. Dog is happily tagging along with the plan. He is such a good sport. Another rest stop for breakfast right after we cross the Tennessee border and into Smokey’s! We pass straight through downtown …
Dog was too excited to sleep beyond 4 am. , so he woke up Sol. I fought to stay in bed till about 6:30. Kids managed to sleep in till 7:30 or so. In need of water and coffee Sol took the trailer to the water station to fill it to the brim for the …
Original plan for lift off was at around 1pm, middle of my work day. This would put us to our first stop – Shenandoah – in the early evening. Easy breezy break into travel with enough of daylight to set up at a first camp site. Little monkey wrench in the plans: today was my …
By early afternoon Sol transitioned the toilet and bath tub from our front lawn back into the trailer. In mere 4 hours after that we cleaned it up and staffed it with 2 weeks’ worth of food, clothes, bedding, towels, dishes, dog food and meds, books, 2nd monitor (can’t code on a laptop), enough tools …
Sol finds ‘a little bit’ of water damage in the sub-flooring of our retro. Packing is on hiatus until the problem is resolved. The trailer tub, toilet and surroundings move out of the trailer and onto our front lawn. Sol spends the good portion of the next 4 days cutting out the damaged parts and …
…it would be a colonoscopy prep. Crazy year. Surely, the one where nature sent humans to our rooms to think about what we have done. As we were talking one night Tamara, unimpressed by her last months of school experience, designated this year as the worst of her life. “It is not all bad?” we …