Category: #vanlife
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Life’s Been Good: Tommy’s Story
On Atma’s maiden voyage, I parked the van in Santa Margarita, California to survey rock piles upon which artists over 4,000 years ago had scratched, scrawled, and painted pictographs; I parked the van in southern New Mexico on a lot next to Carlsbad Caverns, found the gaping opening that spiraled down in sweeping circles to the cold pit of an enormous cave. It…
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Half-naked Man on Campus
Maureen Muldoon texted me a few days before a Voicebox planned evening of storytelling, asking me if I could fill in for a scratched performer. The theme song for the month, appropriately was “September” by Earth, Wind, and Fire. I said yes before knowing what I might possibly contribute. I thought Maureen might bite on…
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How to Fulfill a Boyhood Dream in Cumberland Gap, TN
Routinely in the sixties and early seventies my parents would load me up with my kid brother in a borrowed station wagon and buzz down from Chicago to Asheville, NC as fast as centrifugal force and the likelihood of sliding sideways over the edge of a mountainous road would allow. Dad always drove and he…
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Ode to the Adventure Prone
Inaugural East Coast Cascade Campers Owners Convention I was among the privileged few, there were ten of us in all, to bring my Cascade Camper campervan to Western Virginia to convene for a few days of birds-of-a-feather style camaraderie combined with interludes of revelry. It was—to be precise—a “hoot”. The Cascade Camper van is a…