We’ve had a busy travel week since leaving Gary, Minnesota, and the harvest season behind. We stayed one night in Shakopee at an Airstream Courtesy Parking location, then headed to my aunt and...
We’ve had a busy travel week since leaving Gary, Minnesota, and the harvest season behind. We stayed one night in Shakopee at an Airstream Courtesy Parking location, then headed to my aunt and...
We haven’t had much to report from Gary, Minnesota, while we’ve been here for the corn silage and sugar beet harvest. On the one hand, it’s been a disappointing season. We’ve had more rain this year...
Our Airstream’s original patio awning served us well. For twenty-one years, and especially the last ten years, it has provided shade and shielded us from rain. Over the past few years, however, the...
You would think sitting still for two months in a rural area while Carl works 60+ hours hauling corn silage, alfalfa, and sugar beets during the harvest season would be a quiet venture. A time to...
Week 2 in Gary has been a mix of long shifts, long drives, and one perfect afternoon on the water—reminding us why this lifestyle works for us. Carl started shift work this week, hauling corn silage...
A yard sign on the side of the road in the summer of 2021—spotted as we drove east from Montana toward Wisconsin— led us to Carl’s regular harvest gig starting in 2022. For five years now, at the end...
There aren’t many repairs on our Airstream that Carl won’t tackle himself. Rear-end separation, however, is one of them. Front-end and rear-end separation occurs when the frame (the bottom part)...
We drastically changed our travel plans for this August. The original plan was to leave St. Clair, Michigan, head to Cheboygan for a Boondockers Welcome stay, take a day trip to Mackinac Island, then...
