ADventure Bikes at the Barber Museum

Here’s another example of my #vanlife travels leading to a feature article. Birmingham, Alabama is far off my direct route between Florida and New Hampshire. But this life isn’t about taking the direct route, so I made a big inland detour to visit the Barber Vintage Motorsport Museum. I could write so much about this […]

Here We Go Again

It happens all the time these days, and it just happened to me again. I got laid off from FIXD last week. I’m doing okay. ADVRider is throwing me some more work. I’m already in touch with a couple of other websites about writing for them. Even if that wasn’t the case, between severance, unemployment, […]

Another Very Sporadic Update

A lot’s gone on, and I’ve been very bad at posting updates here. Since the last time, I’ve traveled all the way up the Pacific coast to Washington and spent a lot of time in Oregon. I went to Overland Expo PNW, enjoyed camping out for the weekend, and did a bunch of networking. To […]

Smokey Da Van

It seems I’ve been so focused on building up Smokey Da Van — the website, the YouTube channel, the Instagram, the Facebook page, the Twitter, and the cat’s Twitter — that I completely forgot to come back here and mention what I’ve been up to. Pretty much all of my creative efforts that haven’t been […]

Sometimes You Have To Break a Few Eggs to Make Lemonade

Yes, I know I’ve mashed two sayings together quite badly here, but that’s the point. That’s pretty much been my life since March 24, when I woke up to a smoke alarm alerting me that my apartment was on fire. Nothing has gone according to my previous plan since that point. The funny thing is […]