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Tuesday April 10, 2012

This one in from the RiverEarth Department of Eggs, Lubrication and Improvisation. The scene: Polly and I are traveling the back roads of eastern North Carolina when that annoying squeak catches my ear. Of course I don’t have any grease aboard. Baby, it feels like a break-down dead ahead.

Friday April 6, 2012

Funky camera week here on the wagon. The old Canon I’ve used for years is in its death throes. Makes for some neat shots. Sorta like the beautiful snapshot ravings of a dying person.

Monday April 2, 2012

Big shakedown this week at RiverEarth. com. As in hitch mule Polly to the wagon and drive 90-plus miles through sleet, rain and mosquitoes so fat on mule blood they resemble currant berries. I’m bushed which is why we’re going to cut right to how the end of the day looks inside the wagon.

Monday March 26, 2012

A departure from the script this week. Instead of finding mule Polly hitched to my wagon, she wound up towing a 21-foot sharpie sailboat through the village of Oriental, NC. Could be a century of so since a sight like that’s been seen around here.

Monday March 12, 2012

Yowza travel mates! This week I hitched Polly to her new wagon for a shakedown trip. Here’s a look at how the project has progressed in under a month. But life around here hasn’t just been all about welding and hame ball repair. I’m sneaking out of the barn a few hours on April 12 to do a bit of visitin’. Be great to see you if you’re around….

Monday February 27, 2012

Big progress on the wagon front in past days. The walls are up and I resisted turning the whole thing into a boat. Here’s a peek inside my barn…

Tuesday February 7, 2012

White oak, red oak, yellow pine and black walnut. Yep, just some of the local materials that are going into the new Expedition wagon. Lots of foam board, too, to keep the weight down. My mule Polly has to pull this thing you know.
No time to post more right now because it’s time to raise the roof. Check back in a little while to see my Northern Lights chasing machine. Yes, I might even get more specific on where I’m headed. Cheers!