Author: Steve Ainslie
A posting experiment
A Good Life?
Spartan
Sleep Tight
The Ebbs and Flows of Friendship
A Little Bit Inconvenient
On the road, very little went the way I planned. After driving hundreds of miles to a campsite, I’d find it closed. Despite having a 4WD truck and an off-road camper, I still got stuck in the mud. After just a few days of nature and solitude, I missed human companionship A bigger realization was that…
The Next Chapter
Big changes are coming. As I settle back into civilization in Raleigh, I realize that it is time for me to start rebuilding my life -without Ellen, without Zack, without my cats and without many of the wonderful (and some not so wonderful) parts of my life before my wife died. I learned a lot…
Savoring The Moments
Fifteen years ago, my wife was undergoing a year long treatment for an advanced infection. Every Friday night she’d inject herself with medicine and take a handful of pills. Saturdays and Sundays she’d be nauseous, feverish, and in pain with flu-like symptoms. She’d start to feel better by midweek and then we’d start the…
It’s Over
After two months of full time travel, my life on the road has ended. I drove 8000 miles from coast to coast, visited 10 states and camped out for 54 straight days. I slept in truck stops, deserts, mountains and forests. I learned how to use GPS coordinates, to read topography maps and how to find…