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L(Oh)w Canada!

We’ve been trying to escape to Canada for a long time but it was like bumping our head against the wall. Now, with restrictions lifted and our vaccination cards full, we slipped in a Canadian vacation between dog sits. With the van gone, https://chosenfugue.wordpress.com/2022/05/15/van-gone/ we had to rent a car which was more head bumping.Continue reading “L(Oh)w Canada!”

The Dog Days of Summer

After shedding our van, apartment, and plans to restart our overseas adventures, https://chosenfugue.wordpress.com/2022/05/15/van-gone/ we decided the least we could do was go visit (bother?) our children and grandchild (she is not bothered). Travel required digging up some housing. Continued pandemic concerns combined with everyone else’s revenge travel made housing options limited. Without the option of ourContinue reading “The Dog Days of Summer”

Van Gone

It took us a while to update as we were busy waiting out winter in Olympia. We returned to Olympia to live out the last 3 months of our 7 month lease of our second-story studio-hovel, AKA the apartment of low back pain, unlike Santiago, there was just no comfortable space. Days were spent stickingContinue reading “Van Gone”

Musical Chairs

We haven’t posted in three months, where does the time go? We had been waiting for…… hmm, not sure what we were waiting for to post. Maybe, for something to happen? Two years plus of waiting, waiting becomes part of the daily routine where today is not much different than yesterday or tomorrow. You forget whoContinue reading “Musical Chairs”

Waits Motel

As medical students, during your surgical rotations, you learn the rules of surgery. They vary in number, and by institution, but the main ones are Since van life is very similar to surgery, we follow some of the same rules with slight modifications; The rules became harder to apply as we moved north and theContinue reading “Waits Motel”

Sight(un)seeing

Boosted by the balmy weather of the South, a Covid jab and fevery night on Chocolate Street, we headed toward the Hudson Valley, a long desired destination. Our hypothetical Hudson Valley trip had been a river cruise but in these Covid times that wasn’t considered . But realistically, that probably would not have happened, sinceContinue reading “Sight(un)seeing”

Par for the Coast

We made it coast to coast planning to coast up the Carolinas. A veer to Charleston, which like Savannah, has a beautiful, historic core (and again like Savannah built on a not beautiful past). South Carolina especially Charleston is known for a generalized rotten egg smell known as pluff, from the swampy bacterial (pluff) mud. Continue reading “Par for the Coast”

Savannah Squared

After being on Cloud Nine the only way to go is South https://chosenfugue.wordpress.com/2021/11/21/states-of-never-mind/.  Following our usual uncertainty principles we briefly considered heading slightly north toward Memphis with the lure of the Graceland Campground on the grounds of Graceland, but that would have veered us north too soon with the risk of colder weather. So, insteadContinue reading “Savannah Squared”

Ignore all of the posts today!

We ran out of space on our free Word Press site, so when cleaning out the trash, almost all of the posts went into the trash. They are all reloading, so .. sorry!

Uncertainty Principle

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is defined as never being able to tell the exact position and velocity of an object at the same time. That’s how we are traveling, that’s Santiago https://www.instagram.com/santiago_van_hovel/.  Each day is an uncertainty of how fast we should be traveling, where we are and where we’ll end up. As a resultContinue reading “Uncertainty Principle”