Life in a 1985 Isuzu passenger bus-turned-home isn’t so bad, once you become accustomed to bouncing around feet away from a wood stove which casts an eerie red glow and ominous crackles when driving in the dark. The fridge only swings open a couple times a day, and it only spilled peaches on the floor…

The past 3 days have shown complete disregard of the natural laws of space-time. I’ve had to count and recount the days, because surely I’ve been in New Zealand more than a week, or less than a day...or perhaps I’m actually somewhere in Ireland? Living life upside-down and across a dateline sure shakes up my…

My feet were shackled inside boots for 25 consecutive hours, my rations were sporadic (and at times unidentifiable), and an entire day was stolen from me. I signed up for this. 😊 Greetings from the Southern Hemisphere and the other side of the international dateline! After a brief stay outside Seattle (at what I considered…