I’m sitting in Denny’s where a very large number of people are crowded into the back room with laptops and a daisy chain of power strips. We are full of chocolate and caffeine and the world’s unluckiest waiter just served us. I have no idea what I’m going to be writing in 30 minutes’ time. [...]

I’m having a little trouble with my routine: a classic attack of writer’s block. What I am finding is that when I get into that mode of “should” and “must” write my inner stubborn git comes right out and complains by refusing to let my words flow. So, I’m just writing this here for the [...]

1. I started laughing when I saw, on Amazon’s listing for Irish Spring soap in bulk, a price “used and new.” Hey! You can buy used soap at Amazon! Woo-hoo! 2. Don, in the back office (as opposed to this, the front office), is chuckling: he’s reading my blog. In the same RV. Not six [...]

Several years ago Chris Baty decided to write a novel, and the only way he could think of to make it happen was to sit down and do it in a month. Several of his friends played along, and each year it’s grown and grown. This event is called NaNoWriMo and it rocks. His book [...]

Found this at one of the motels, which had a resident feral colony. One of the cats was having a nice little drink from the swimming pool. The sign in the background reads “no pets” ;)

This is a thank-you post to all who voted for Raven’s Roads in the best travel blog category at the Bloggers’ Choice Awards. Voting ended on the 18th of October. The site came tenth which actually chuffed me no end because I wanted the site to finish on the first page and it did. :) [...]

Another week, and it’s been one of those oh-wait-my-life-is-now-dramatically-different ones. We picked up our RV on Monday. It is a ’90 Coachmen Leprechaun, 26′ long, and we like it very much. We drove it to a couple of “free campgrounds” (the first night was at Wal-Mart which allows, for the most part, overnight camping and [...]

We’re not sure what they were doing, but one of the rooms down from us had ejected all its furniture. Maybe they were going for the “outdoor living” style.

Last week after putting a deposit on the RV we headed down 99 to Merced, where we thought we would be spending the night. We had stayed in Tracy, Stockton (two different motels), Fremont, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara by that stage, and wanted to do something different. However, when we got to Merced we didn’t [...]