Collect Moments, Not Things.

Today, we have a quote about breaking the power of consumerism in your life and living a simple, minimal life filled with joy and not with things. So, this is another kind of unknown quote. No one knows exactly who said it; it’s just out in the ether. The quote goes,...

Put One Foot in Front of the Other

This is a condensed and clarified transcript of a video Bob made three years ago. *  *  *  *  *  * Today, we’re going to have a quote from Abraham Lincoln. When I think back at Abraham Lincoln and his life and what he has accomplished, I just have the most profound...

Developing Intuition on the Road

This is a condensed and clarified transcript of a video Bob made last year *  *  *  *  *  * EVERY HUMAN BEING ALIVE HAS INTUITION. If you learn to tune into it, your life will be far safer and I believe far better. My journey with intuition began in 1995 when I had to...

I Want a Futility Detector

THE SOLITAIRE APP on my phone is kind enough to inform me when a particular shuffle has no solution. “No useful moves detected,” it says. I love that phrasing. No useful moves. “Sure,” it implies, “you could keep moving cards around, hoping for a breakthrough, if that...

A Few Words from Swankie

Longtime nomad, kayaked in all 50 states, multiple hip and shoulder surgeries, supporting actor in Nomadland style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7662527707655081" data-ad-slot="8472325861" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"...

Something Is Better Than Nothing

I GREW UP among people who insisted perfection was the only acceptable goal. Anything even one molecule shy of perfection was a distant second—so distant it was indistinguishable from utter failure. Ironically (or predictably) the only thing these perfectionists did...

Sunday Short: A Way Out

THE BRITISH ARE RATHER… BRITISH. So the exit signs in the London Underground (and perhaps elsewhere in the country) don’t say EXIT, they say WAY OUT. As in “this is the way out of here.” Cheap RV Living is like those signs, pointing to a way out of a life that...