How to pay for your van

Disclaimer: Nothing here is financial advice, and I am certainly not a financial advisor, except to my own kids. To…

What to write on

The other day, I wrote about journaling, about treating your journal as an extension of your brain, not only as…

Comparing traction boards

There’s something about traction boards that calls out to the inner man. Before Overlanding was a “thing,” before #vanlife filled…

We begin again

I have two daughters. When the second one left for college, I started keeping a journal. My journals (plural, as…

Scouting the Valley of Fire

Forty-five minutes northeast of the van manufacturer Noovo, which is to say forty-five minutes northeast of Las Vegas, is the…