We’ve just returned from a 12-day camping trip, visiting west Texas and the southern reaches of New Mexico, Arizona, and California. On this trip, wedged between two birding tours to South America, we reached a milestone that has me thinking about the various natural history goals that Eileen and I have had over the years. […]
Category: Retrospectives
The Great Basin Revisited
After leaving the Huachuca Mountains in southeast Arizona, we got a cell signal for the first time in several days, and upon seeing the number of messages left by Eileen’s siblings while we were incommunicado, we knew that there was a family emergency. One evening after dinner, Eileen’s father, age 91, lost consciousness and never […]
Prairie Retrospective
Although earlier blog posts have covered our prairies trip in some detail, the purpose of this post is to provide a higher-level perspective on our trip as a whole, and to make recommendations for others touring the prairies. I normally impose on myself a 1000-word limit, for readability, but have allowed this one to go […]
Three-Month Retrospective
We’ve been on the road about three months now, and so have long since surpassed the length of our previous longest road trips (52 days each to the Arctic in 1999 and California in 2003). It seems like a good time to calculate some trip statistics, and in this post I’ll also provide some additional […]
Financial Strategy
The two questions I received most frequently, after people found out I was retiring, were “What are you going to do with yourself?” and “How did you decide you had enough money to retire?” The former question is essentially the focus of this blog in general, but in today’s post I will specifically address the […]
A New Blog: Background
Eileen and I have written a Christmas letter each of the 30 years we have been married. But with my retirement on Sept. 9, and our plans for nomadic travel across North America, quite a few people have suggested more frequent reporting. Hence this foray, our first, into blogging. Although some blogs involve essentially daily […]
Nomadic Naturalists 