Lori and I took a short trip down to Santa Cruz, about an hour and a half away. We are “test driving” a new cat sitter and didn’t want to go too far away or be gone for too long,…

My kids already know it and my wife already knows it, but it has to be said: I don’t know what I’m doing. Here is yet another example. The Noovo Plus is a beautiful van. Its beauty is on the…

Every beach has its own character, its own personality. Montara Beach, the beach at the edge of the town where I live, is known for its powerful surf, coarse sand, and Montara Mountain, which rises above it and slides into…

Back in February, months before we picked up our Noovo Plus, I was thinking through all of the ways that we might use our upcoming van, and I wrote a post on it entitled Mode Noovo. There are different modes…

You can spend your thousands on bushwhacking bumpers, you can mate your traction board’s magnets to the metal, you can rig your Rover box to the rear, but the best mod ever for your van is a stamped sheet of…

(This is a long post. It is worth it.) Nuclear weapons never went away, as any day’s headlines will attest. Why is the United States attacking Iran? Nuclear weapons. Why hasn’t the United States more directly supported Ukraine? Nuclear weapons.…

Conrad Hilton, the hotel magnate, is talking with Don Draper, in season 3, episode 9 of Mad Men. It’s the middle of the night, Draper, dragged out of bed by a call from Hilton, sternly inviting Don to visit him…

When we picked up our Noovo in April, we were ready. No one had yet made an inspection checklist, so I put one together, giving it a test run before sharing it with the Noovo community. (You can see the…

Convict Lake has a trail that runs all the way around it. It’s not a long walk and the views are unforgettable. Also unforgettable are the bathrooms.  My wife and I have traveled by car all over the United States…

We you don’t have much, the small things matter.  The driver of a Ram Promaster doesn’t get a heated seat, nor one that articulates much, or goes up and down, or goes back far enough, or even is that comfortable…