Tag: #vanlife

  • En Plein Air: Tommy’s Story

    En Plein Air: Tommy’s Story

    On Atma’s maiden voyage, I parked the van in Santa Margarita, California to survey rock piles upon which artists had scratched, scrawled, and painted pictographs en plein air over 4,000 years ago; 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…

  • 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…