Some birds, bugs and beasties seen recently in Florida.

Every time I return to Florida for the winter, I am reminded what a lovely city St Petersburg is.  🙂 Some photos from a walk along the waterfront.

[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.] Back in my younger days as a backpacker, we used almost no electricity at all. I sometimes carried a small … More Life in the Van: Electricity

For my first six years of vandwelling I was on the road fulltime, year-round, and had established a legal residency with my sister in Pennsylvania. When the pandemic hit I happened to be in Florida for the winter, so I bought a mobile home in Tampa Bay and holed up for a year until I … More Back in FL For the Winter

When I travel from one city to another in my camper van, my place of choice to spend the night along the way is Cracker Barrel, which allows campers and RVs to overnight in their parking lots.  Usually I just pick a Cracker Barrel that is roughly halfway to wherever I am going. But when … More Titan ICBM, Cordele GA

When I visited Oak Ridge this past spring, the tours to the National Laboratory were closed down due to the Covid virus. But they have recently reopened (at least for now), so I stopped by for a tour on my way back to Florida. In October 1939, President Franklin D Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein, … More X-10 Reactor and Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge TN

The NASA John C Stennis facility in Mississippi is where NASA develops and tests its rocket engines. Not as big as the Cape or Houston, but still has some cool stuff on display.  When President John F Kennedy announced in 1961 that the United States would begin a program to land men on the Moon, … More NASA John Stennis Space Center

[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.] So, how do I cook while living in the van? Often, I don’t. Parking lots are usually surrounded by … More Life in the Van: Cooking

Got my shots today: flu shot in one shoulder, Omicron booster in the other. Now both are throbbing.

This is a nice little nature center just a short distance from one of my camping spots in Slidell LA just outside New Orleans.  Walking trails and boardwalk. Some photos from an afternoon walk.