posting index

2006

• August—simple living in 95 sq ft
  August—more on simple living—dreams and cutting down on possessions


• September—simple travel—between the roads


• October—packing for the road


• November—choosing a rig


• December—tread lightly

2007

• January—one foot in the grave - get back in shape and experience the Outdoors


• March—lake powell


• June—home sweet home - summer job in Kanab, UT and the Kaibab Plateau


• September—seasonal work - ideas and resources
  September—use of time


• November—heading south—Moab, UT and down rt.191 to southern AZ and Anne LaBastille

2008

• January—southern new mexico state parks—full moon, mug, and bowl walks, don’t act your age, and meeting other campers
  January—let others know - lettering for the outside of your rig


• February—the lifestyle—what it’s like to live like this & security
  February—odds and ends for off-the-grid vagabonds living in small rigs


• March—heading north—weekday asphalt, second mesa on the Hopi reservation and BLM


• April—not quite limbo - short stay in Heber, UT while teaching a class


• June—campground host


• July—life in south willow canyon, UT—rattlesnakes, pack goats, didgeridoo, prayer flags, connect-the-campers, and Rizzlo


• August—evicted - evacuated for a couple weeks due to a forest fire and Rizzlo is found


• September—chompin’ to hit the road - big eyes at night, homemade trailer, onyx and turkeys


• October—campground manager position - what such a job entails
  October—maybe it’s time to roll - installing solar panel
  October—heading south to new mexico and ‘my canyonlands – the adventurous life of Kent Frost’


• November—heron lake state park, canaries, snagging, and custom doormats
  November—fulltiming in RV parks


• December—villanueva state park and meeting new people
  December—conchas lake state park
  December—ute lake state park

2009

• January—santa rosa state park
  January—sumner lake state park, pet deer, a racoon, and the wolf moon


• February—oasis state park, clovis points, LEDs, and the snow moon
  February—bottomless lakes state park
  February—brantley lake state park, cold butt, the back way, in-town bicycling, living desert, not into travel


• March—year of the ox, a new trans, and the worm moon


• April—back to city of rocks state park, historic district, and wait wait
  April—RVwest magazine article - following a free spirit
  April—back to bisbee, nixing the A/C, and the pink moon
  April—ravens, one life less for onyx, and bikes


• May—meandering north up NM rt.181with a little blue bird, too many mice, san francisco mountains, rough roads, almost lost the starter, and the flower moon


• June—living alfresco and the strawberry moon


• July—one last time in south willow—the german, housesitting, mudslide, seals, an ungrateful Rizzlo, and the buck moon


• August—evicted once again—yungas road, feed pan, take your last breath, pulse, the book thief, cretin with a horse, and the sturgeon moon
  August—onyx thwarted, skiers cabin, where am i


• September—rock climbers, EDELAC, rotor rooter, raccoons, more seals, the cabin comes down, and the harvest moon


• October—meadow and onyx, horses, deer, turkeys, ‘a walk in the woods’, ruth’s with pam, hiking with cathy, du pre books by peter bowen, and the hunter's moon
  October—out of here


• November—moab, documentaries, deck plate, dipping bars, uncertainty, and the beaver moon
  November—canyon rims area, bored?!, rockland, cowpie fires, and a new bed


• December—navajo lake, heron, water heater flush, day-to-day variances, three ravens, onyx and the shower bag, LaMontanita coop, villanueva, thanksgiving, and the cold moon
  December—santa rosa, oasis, bottomless, more déjà vu, and five great lessons

2010

• January—seasonal friends, teardrop, winter solstice, christmas with the cows, and oliver lee hike


• February—back to bisbee II
  February—granite gap
  February—out and about south of silver city and onyx in hyperdrive


• March—big burro mountains
  March—easy to be active at city of rocks


• April—cold weather dry camping in small fiberglass trailers
  April—jacks peak, caches, salida, grapes, wanderlust, and retirement


• May—5 felines, snow, desperation, and feet
  May—trippin’ and fallin’, solitude, sacaton, sailplane, and expenses
  May—change of plans, creek coffee and wine, codgerspace, and sirius


• June—camping spots heading north, breakdown, and seeing the house
  June—learning to fly


• July—house sitting in cañones valley


• August—don't sit on your ticket


• September—little beaver pow-wow, paige bridges art, this and that, and cherishing each day
  September—learning to fly—part two—starting to get past the crashing


• October—chama to moab


• November—designs by owen
  November—tucked away in the mountains with felines and birds


• December—campgrounds

2011

• January—tally, between the roads, radio classics, what to write, and the bricklayer


• February—flats, shoot the pilot, cold spell, a 20 year old Cherokee, and how to wash the cat


• March—back to bisbee III—mucho eating, stoned and stuffed,
  independent ladies, honk and holler, no F150, mating and peanuts, and if


• April—the new turning radius, M&M out of the cage, cookes peak, rattles, and christian or thief


• May—aging and disuse


• June—short segment north through NM and what a woman finds attractive in a man
  June—diana’s sixty minutes sixty years challenge


• July—bone marrow transplant, stairwell saga and newly weds
  July—one pot meals, virtual choir, wingin’ it, the winds, way too many porker carts, an evil god, and shootin’ the boss


• August—moose in the window, doa, carefree children, turkeys in the night, not my realm, and dear cats and dogs


• September—more moose, might as well be dead, a dead sony, mesa's bear, another challenge, and children’s books


• October—art deco, on the rim, flaming cow sh*t, check the water, nasty body fluids, it's a hard life, extended time off the grid, and games for when you are older


• November—small world, coyotes, running of the bulls, IZ, salmon run, an empty park, fresh cup, and George Washington and the axe


• December—disaronno, blue cover, eton, notebook, a fisherman, sandbags, and chicken little

2012

• January—solstice and silver jewelry of the southwest Indians


• February—an old man and the norm


• March—podcasts, grave robbers, the rhino, and wash hikes
• April—back to Bisbee IV, spending, all on wheels, food from plants, old fogies’ pass, recycling ravens, and more time in the burros
• May—night life, wimpin’ out a bit, email, dragging my feet, cushion covers, flash backs, too old, and ravens (again)
• June—last two rattlers, eclipse, single burner, javelina, blocked panel, back out where I feel best
• July—one less life for Meadow, physical travel, meth, two-niner, and cutting down
• August—first 6 weeks in the white mtns, up close bobcat, road closures & the chinese, and semester at sea
• September—last 3 weeks in the Whites, plinking, more mud, logger, and felines
  September—bear at the door, 2 postings, bow drill, 3-week stints off the grid, the Kaibab, living for single-tracks, and mushrooms
• October—back in the dirt for M&M, mail call, little chuckles, thrilling but nuts, scootin’ mesa, water containers, john’s eclipse, triple 18
  October—canyon rims, trees for M&M, and macraven
• November—sweat lodge, a mistake, a second shelter, cryptobiotic soil, and 2nd spot in the canyon rims area
• December—back to NM, time for a new trailer, up to Oregon? and pdf stories

2013

• January—defroster, trailer saga, Bordeaux, story for tomorrow and not gonna settle for less
• February—my first goat, record snow fall, bottle cutter, new tunes, decided, think different, and a thanks
• March—lookin’ good, maybe in a tree, LOL, and SHAFF
• April—salida in ’14, winter parks, outdoorsy, coffee with a tang, mother earth, blog to com, and bounding
• May—one trailer, two trailers, one trailer

I tend to go back from time to time and add to past entries. Sometimes it’s new paragraphs on something else I thought of and sometimes it’s changes to what I originally wrote. I might have changed the way I look at something or how I do something. Sometimes it’s more info on a particular area where I camp. Whatever, things change and so does this text.

They say you can make a wish when the moon paints the waves.
If you don’t tell, it will come true.

RVwest article ‘Following a Free Spirit’