Greetings from Lake Kabetogama

The trappings of a morning full of Kodiak cakes and Bloody Marie’s is strewn across our handmade van kitchen, milk pouring into the dry pancake mix and swirling together perfectly creamy. “When are the pancakes gonna be ready?” our 7 year old, Wylder Reisen, asks. “Soon,” his mama says, though I’m cooking this morning, “the

Greetings from Dinosaur National Monument

“Hi there,” I approach a young ranger behind a desk at the visitor center just a couple of miles outside of Dinosaur, Colorado. “I was wondering about camping at Echo Park.” “What are you driving?” she asks, not twenty years old and without the official ranger hat. I explain that we have a van, she

Greetings from Colorado National Monument

It’s been two years since we could say with meaning that we’ve been “on the road.” Certainly, a time or two spent weekending, a long road trip, or even a few months were spent disappearing into warmer climes by the names of Florida or Arizona were had. We just knew we’d be going home, which