Disclaimer: BC Ferries and Camping and RVing in BC sponsored our travels.
It’s big. It’s silver and maroon. And it’s upholstered in many shades of brown and tan with oak front cabinets and parts that slide out to make it even bigger. It’s got outlets and burners and a toaster, even, which you have to ask for but don’t have to pay more for.
And now, it’s our home for the week. Our bags are stowed in aforementioned oak fronted cabinets, our groceries are in the fridge.… continued…
It’s many months back that I got the pitch mail from BC Tourism. Camping is in, it said, or something like that, and BC is an awesome place to camp. I summarize, of course, they were considerably more poetic, as those pitching tourism are wont to be. The crux of the matter was this: Did I want to go camping in BC in a loaner RV? Did I ever!
I couldn’t make the summer round of BC Tourism sponsored trips, but I knew I’d have time come fall.… continued…
Fargo is flat, really, really flat. It’s a grid city with wide avenues that are seemingly all under construction. There are neat little houses with neat little yards, but more than that, there are cookie cutter developments, row after row after row of beige homes that all look exactly the same, with drying lawns out front, with trucks in the driveways, with young moms. Fargo is dusty and the air is cool and it reminds me of frontier towns in Alaska more than anything, were frontier towns in Alaska surrounded by the suburbs of my nightmares.… continued…
Do people keep telling you that video is the “new thing for your blog!”? Yeah, they keep telling us that too. I have personally been terrified to head down that path, fearing that I will be lured in to a false sense of confidence about the ease of producing decent short video and then, I will waste countless hours trying to unravel the tools and processes of video editing. No way, I said, no way, repeatedly quoting a speaker I heard at a blogging conference: “If you’re going to do video, do it well.”
You know where this is going, right?… continued…
Iowa is flat, mostly, and covered with corn. It is not, like some folks have been telling us, boring. The towns are small and far apart and yes, it kind of repeats on you — small town, corn field, feed lot, stand of trees, small town, corn field, feed lot, stand of trees. Every now and then there’s a grain elevator or a slightly bigger town, we saw six stories buildings today and they looked huge from the horizon.… continued…
