Author: Robert Shaw

  • Causality versus Free Will

    Causality versus Free Will

    Modern life depends on causality. You stomp on your car’s brake pedal and through a series of mechanical, hydraulic and electrical links your car rapidly slows. The chain of events began long before your foot touches the brake pedal. Perhaps millions of years before.

  • Ravioli with Eggplant

    Ravioli with Eggplant

    “Let’s find a new way to prepare ravioli,” I was encouraged. The recipe we found looked rather bland. Thus I immediately enhanced it with garlic and oregano. This version was rated worthy of adding to our expanding rotation. Yield: 2 generous servings in about 30 active minutes. Ingredients Procedure

  • Camping Diary 2024

    Camping Diary 2024

    Where will we go this year? The segments described below show our thoughts as of the date of publication above. The tables accurately reflect our plans. The maps from RV Life are screen shots during our planning. The green ring on each map is at 100 miles (the area we might explore while at a…

  • Fresh Water Maintenance

    Fresh Water Maintenance

    Campground water differs from City Water necessitating sanitizing and de-calcification of an RV’s freshwater system.

  • Citrus Poached Spinach

    Citrus Poached Spinach

    A winery in Michigan offered something like this as one course of a five course meal. Ever since I have speculated how I might replicate it.

  • Where Is Home

    Where Is Home

    “Don’t you ever go home?” a woman asked me after hearing about our nomadic lifestyle. After thinking about her question I decided I am home. See why my home needs an RV to experience its depth and its breadth.

  • Baked Tofu Hoisin-Sesame Salad

    Baked Tofu Hoisin-Sesame Salad

    The recipe below adds baking the tofu to amp up the flavor. This made a nutritious and tasty salad to eat on a travel day.

  • Vegetarian Quesadillas

    Vegetarian Quesadillas

    We found this one-pot meal to be refreshing and satisfying. This adapted recipe combines comments from another site plus a few of my own modifications.

  • Towing in the Wind

    Towing in the Wind

    After three days with the wind in Kansas and eastern Colorado blowing and gusting against the left side of our trailer as we traveled west gave me time to think about towing against the wind. When we headed west from Abilene Kansas the wind was a moderate 16 miles per hour from the south that…

  • Rain, Rain, Go Away

    Rain, Rain, Go Away

    When the rain threatened to spoil activities when I was a child we would chant: “Rain rain, go away! Come again another day!” Our hope was that the rain would go away. Now, as an RVer, that chant has a very different meaning.