Last week when we were getting that crap rainy weather Ali and I were looking skyward and talking about how it was about to rain. Lowe overheard us while sitting nearby with his cars and asked, “Is the bus gonna leak?” Imagine that coming out of a two-year-old’s mouth, “Zz-da-bus-gnna-leakin?” … Read More
The Sound
My cousin has a house sitting on amazing waterfront near Bremerton, and that’s where we found ourselves the past few nights. Pretty much the best camping spot in Washington, in his front yard with water, electricity, and a path right down to the beach. Kayaks included, as well as the … Read More
Washington
I’ve been buffing a little bit here and there lately. By hand it is pretty slow going—I really need to just buy a buffer. It looks really nice when that chalky top layer comes off, though. We continued north to Astoria, where we drove up the hill through town—something we … Read More
Columbia County Fair
We said goodbye to Grammy today, after almost a month. We always seem to stay a month with her. Part of it is because we love her, and part of it is because we love Portland. Portland summers anyway. And while we all love Grammy, it wasn’t her name we … Read More
Date with Strangers
We had a little get-together at the pub the other day. We do these every now and again—inviting Bum friends to drop in and say hi face-to-face instead of through our usual virtual reality. People always ask us, “Isn’t it kind of weird meeting a bunch of people you don’t … Read More
Mississippi Street
Note: If you’re in the Portland area, we’re having a little get together/bus open house at 2:00 Sunday. Hopworks on SE Powell. This is nothing new, just a re-split of an old scar. There’s something natural about a boy and a bloody cut—you know that each cut is just one of … Read More
ABCDEFGHJI…
Peanut-butter cookies this time. I thought this was pretty funny. Ali bought this LeapFrog alphabet pad thing at Target. Just a cheapo little item for Ouest to practice her letters on. She had finished it in the car, and when she got home she brought it over to show me. … Read More
Travco Time Machine
Remember a while back I mentioned that we had tracked down the original owners of the bus? Well today we got a little gift in the mail—a bunch of pictures from back in the day. Pretty amazing to me just how little has changed. Apparently the original owner added the … Read More
Poopy Hands
The other day we were at an RV park and I watched a man—for the hundredth time, at least—pull on an elbow length pair of rubber gloves before disconnecting his RV’s toilet hose. As I watched him all I could think about was what my grandpa would have thought if … Read More