My first day back in Reno with the dream-mobile, and already life seems more complicated: Prospective condo-buyers want to see the place, so I have re-tidy it (having littered the place with van manuals and other road trip detritus) and be absent by 10am. An hour before I left van-land, they helpfully told me that [...]
I am off to Oregon to get my camper van next week! The imminence of actually having to deal with parking that sucker has finally gotten me in gear to start the process of selling my condo. As per my plan, I’ve done a pretty good job of de-cluttering over the last coupla months – [...]
Half Full report: I started the process of getting the camper van of my dreams last month, to be completed next month. Half Empty report: I drove up to Oregon, wrote a very big check to a guy I’d never met before, … to buy a delivery van that won’t fit in my garage, … [...]
(I had so much fun yakking about my health, but with luck there won’t be much more of that to yak about in the future, so this is your notice that I will be more and more yakking about just random stuff in my life) I’ve been home almost six weeks, and I have been [...]
Well, here we are, the day before the big day. There is one more test this morning, some kind of sonogram-ish thing to check the condition of my cardioid arteries, and I am good to go. In the evening the barber shows up for my full body shave. He was a funny little dude that [...]
Saturday May 23 (still working on the travelogue part of this below) This is a new-ish hospital (five years old) out in the far suburbs – the countryside really – and they are working hard to attract an international clientele. It is right on the Sea of Marmara, my new favorite place, and every room [...]
100614 – Howard’s Gulch CG
The six months I’ve owned the van have been winter and this unusual cold, wet spring, so it has mostly been parked by the river outside my condo, and I have mostly been not using it. But today, I have embarked on a road trip to Oregon, to the shop that built it, and I [...]
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