Someone was more ambitious about wood gathering than fire making. And while I'm on the subject, why fire rings instead of fire rect...

The suction doesn't change when you flip the switch between Super and Turbo. However, your dollar disappears faster.

At the end of the month I will have been living the van dweller life a year. Time flies. So here's a map of all the places I've stay...

This is the shore of Boca Reservoir. It's a good place to spend the day without trees blocking sunlight to the solar panel. If there h...

Driving in the Sierras, window open, sunny day with fluffy clouds, the temperature somewhere in the seventies, breathing in deliciously clea...

People who live with the benefits of plumbing often ask me how I do without. The answer is a five-gallon bucket, trash bags and a nifty lid....

After a few drizzly days, the cloud cover is breaking up. At least tonight.

They did not speed

While I'm on the subject of maps, routes and GPS, here's a request for the folks at Google. You show suggested routes in blue. The...

There's no short way to French Meadows Campground where Donna and Mark are working as hosts. It's in the mountains. Mountain roads a...

Mark and Donna, Thanksgiving 2013 My friends, Mark and Donna, are hosts at a Forest Service campground. They saw from this blog that I...

Yesterday was mostly cloudy with occasional showers. Not great for us solar users. In order to get an early start charging my batteries in t...

There are two places in Truckee, California where travelers can shower without getting a room. There might be others. The first is the Com...