This park is on the shores of lake Michigan along Milwaukee’s waterfront. It’s a nice place to walk around and have a picnic lunch. Some photos.

Someone in another forum asked to see some photos of my sink setup, so I’m posting them here. My sink went through several versions over the years. When I first started out, I made a sink bowl by cutting a hole into the bottom of a stainless steel mixing bowl and adding a plain ole … More My Sink

This state park is located on Lake Michigan along Milwaukee’s waterfront. There’s a paved walking/biking trail, and most of the park has been replanted with native grasses and wildflowers. It’s a great place for an afternoon walk. Some photos from a visit.

I’m not a gearhead, and I’ve never driven a motorcycle in my life, but I like “history”, and since 1903 Harley-Davidson motorcycles have been an icon of “American culture”, for better or worse. The Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee celebrates that history. Some photos from a visit.

[NOTE: I’ve blogged all these “how-to” posts before, but am gonna re-run them on occasion, since folks may have missed them, and many of them have been updated or expanded since they were first posted.] There is one weather condition about which a van-dweller can do very little: when it is hot outside for a … More Life in the Van: Condensation and Cold Weather

This is a very very nice museum in downtown Milwaukee. Three floors of exhibits that include fossils, taxidermied wildlife, geology, and displays of Native American, South American, African, and Asian native cultures. I spent the whole afternoon here—I could easily have spent an entire day. Some photos. (Okay, there’s a LOT of photos. Lots of … More Milwaukee Public Museum

This is a nice science museum in Milwaukee, right on the shore of Lake Michigan. It’s aimed mostly at kids, but there was lots of stuff here I liked (I’m just a big kid). Some photos from a visit.

This is a very nice zoo in Milwaukee (technically, I think it is just outside of Milwaukee, but I don’t know the geography here). It has all the favorites, and also some species that I haven’t seen before or haven’t seen in a long time. Damn, it feels good to be traveling again.  🙂 Some … More Milwaukee County Zoo

Took me a bit longer to get here than I planned, but here I am. 🙂 I’ll be spending a few months in the Great White North until it starts getting cold, then I’ll work my way back south towards Florida for the winter.

[NOTE: I’ve blogged all these “how-to” posts before, but am gonna re-run them on occasion, since folks may have missed them, and many of them have been updated or expanded since they were first posted.] Before you can set off on your cross-country journey, there are some bureaucratic paperwork issues you will need to deal … More Life in the Van: Bureaucracy