Category Archives: The Nomad Experience

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”-Henry David Thoreau “But I won’t know where the stores are!!” I stared quizzically at my friend. Really?? You find out you get to … Continue reading →

“Home’s where you go when you run out of homes.”-John le Carre 2025 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Somehow, I made it through 4 years of high school honors English and a few … Continue reading →

Vagabond: [vag-uh-bond] adj. 1. wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic. 2. leading an unsettled or carefree life. The definition for vagabond can really go two ways. On one hand, it can be viewed negatively with words … Continue reading →

“Not all who wander are lost”-Gandalf Future me may refer to these last few months as the Winter of Waiting. It certainly has been a time of waiting and upheaval and confusion and waiting and changed plans and unknowns and … Continue reading →

PIVOT! So… I’m not sure if Kansas was a tornado or a non-event. Due to some issues with the site and with the calendar/scheduling, Barry never even went to the job site here. Instead, after just over a week, they … Continue reading →

“and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! ” – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol This … Continue reading →

Well, our destination for the next few months has been determined. Not the Arctic, and not the beach. (for reference, see my post “ok God, so what’s the plan?”) And now the packing has begun. One day we were told … Continue reading →