I'm feeling the rumble. I've been house-sitting and couch-surfing for a couple of months. Sitting, surfing and more recently shoveling. Solo, my 4 legged best friend's vitality is waning. He is lumpy, bumpy, warty, a little off kilter. This once …
Category: vandwelling

Crumblebee
UPDATE on Rumblebee now Crumblebee.... At about 3 am we got hit with some crazy rogue wind, thunder and lightning. It was scary and hunker down was what I did. At 5 am I looked out to check on my …

Rumbles in Wonderland
The crows and seagulls on the roof on the van made enough noise that I thought I was having my own Alice In Wonderland moment. Wake up in an alternative universe where birds are as big as people. What else …

If Boyfriends Were Cars
First boyfriend had an honest little work truck insured by the parents, a blue Mazda 4 speed stick shift. It always had firewood, or fishing nets or even a chainsaw in the back as we lived on a small northerly …

Gathering Qi
I've got lust, the wandering kind. This crazy year of family tragedy and loss, while the planet yells MAYDAY, MAYDAY with every element at its disposal, has made me pause. Fire, wind, flood, earth. I've been sitting in a safe …

Sticky lifters and Old Nipples
Title Here That was the diagnosis that Dean the mechanic gave me the day I saw the little drip, drip, drip underneath the front of my 1984 Vanguard camper van... goes by the name of Rumblebee. I told him about …