Author: neil

Rocket launches were once a Very Big Deal. In a photo album at my parents’ house, there are multiple photos my dad took of our TV, showing a live network television broadcast of the Space Shuttle Columbia lifting off (in the pre-VCR days, that’s how you “recorded” TV!) It was SpaceX’s goal to end that…

Rett didn’t roll over and ask what time it was until nearly 8am, but that was fine because that meant we weren’t making breakfast in the freezing cold, and we didn’t need to be because we’d have another tailwind to push us on the day’s ride. Ok, 44 degrees at 8am was still pretty cold,…

The lighthouse, the alligator farm, Anastasia Island State Park: all things on our list that we didn’t get to see during our week in St. Augustine, and all things we passed on our way south out of town and still didn’t stop to see. Unfortunately we’ll never be able to see everything, but in this…

Days 2-4: Thanksgiving This is the 4th Thanksgiving we’ve celebrated as nomads, and it feels like we’ve now covered the entire range of possibilities. (Though maybe 2025 will best my imagination and further expand the range?) We booked a place (with a full kitchen!) in St. Augustine for a week, partly because we wanted to…

It looks like there is a direct route out of the Hanna Park campground to the quiet coastal street that would take us south, but it’s solidly blocked by a fence (the heatmaps almost fool you until you zoom in and see that the bright line of cyclist traffic has a tiny gap). From the…