Hi, I'm Phil Schmidt, and welcome to my blog! Here I share my ponderings, wanderings and doings.
Final weeks in the camper, and now housed!
A mere eight weeks ago we made the decision to pivot from nomadic RV life to stationary home living, and now the transformation is complete. We closed on a house a couple weeks ago and promptly moved in. By the end of the day after closing we'd cleared out our …
... keep readingWe've come full circle and landed
I'll begin with the end here. The last seven weeks have been a whirlwind, starting in Oregon and ending in Iowa, where we are now, and where we will be staying for good. Yes, we are exiting RV life! We went into this knowing that it wouldn't last, and with …
... keep readingOur Democracy is on Fire
In the early eighties when I was in high school, a buddy and I feared that the U.S. and Soviet Union might go to war and exchange nukes. We decided that we needed a bomb shelter, and proceeded to dig a large hole - over several weeks' time - hidden …
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