Dreams of The Thaw
It’s winter still, but we’re fattening the horses, bulking up supplies and getting the wagons ready for our first adventure across the mighty Mississippi into the wild west later this year. Most of America...
Author: David Rasmussen
Red Bucket in Siesta Key
It’s a little after three in the morning and I wake up with both of my hands pounding. It feels like someone took a Eastwing hammer and beat my palms. Perhaps I should turn on...
Sometimes I Fly Like an Eagle
In June of 2014 when we began our nomadic experiment and moved our happy selves into our 19′ camper, we thought it was just going to be a year long sabbatical tooling around the countryside...
The Drop
A cool morning breeze rustles the feathers of the sleeping bald eagle. His golden eye pops open just as the tip of the sun crests the earth. From his perch high on a...
Somewhere in Time – Mackinac Island Michigan
It’s raining softly and I quietly listen to each delicate drop find its way from the heavens onto the top of the ferry boat. I’m still in that mysterious place nestled between a dream and...
A Place Like Mayberry
“Sarah?…This is Andy Taylor. Fine how are you……Well, soak it Sarah. Soak it a lot in warm salt water. Uh, listen Sarah, get me Thelma Lou will ya’? I know she’s Barney’s girl…..Cause I...
50 Shades of Green – A Journey up the Natchez Trace
Two lane road. Tall pines and Live Oak trees with eerie looking Spanish moss dripping from their limbs, line the sides of the road as we curve and weave our way through the forest. It’s been...
Trail Magic
Trail Names, Trail Crossings & Trail Magic Almost every hiker on the Appalachian Trail gives up their name identity and takes on a new trail name. You won’t meet a Bob, David, Mary or...
The Accident
“It’s OK honey”, she reassured him. “You are doing this with dignity. You gave everything for them and it’s not wrong to ask for a little help back. ” He slips on his hat,...
Magic Dust
It’s 11:00 Saturday morning and Tom and Mary load their three kids into the mini van. The hatchback is filled with an overflowing cooler, lawn chairs, bathing suits, and countless toys that will soon be used...
