Camp Mi Casa, Old Route 66, Carthage, MO,. (Jon Sall photograph)
Like a broken needle in a compass, selling my camper van left me lost in the slipstream. The blue converted 2015 Ford Transit van was the subject of 2018’s “The Camper Book (A Celebration of a Moveable American Dream)”with fine photographs from Jon Sall and a great foreword from actor-Detroit Tigers fan Jeff Daniels.
The van became a 10-year chapter of my life.
While looking back at the book and photos we took along the way, I arrived at the “what was I thinking?” moment. The van was likely a whiplash response to the passing of [...]
Gumby Jesus blesses the van, 2016 Eureka Springs, Ark. (Jon Sall photo)
You cannot outrun the road.
It took a while for me to get there. Route 66, Highway 61, Mississippi River Road, Pacific Coast Highway, Lincoln Highway. Nice memories and lots of pictures. Hair blowing in the wind on the way to Key West. Now I don’t have much hair. The high beams are closer than you think.
This marks the 10th anniversary since my blue Ford Transit Van rolled out of the Kansas City Assembly plant into my merry fate. This was the same factory that produced the van for “American Pickers.” In 2014 Ford invested $1.1 billion into [...]
