Jenny on the Moonstone Beach Boardwalk, Cambria, CA: April, 2025 So, I sort of stopped blogging because, you know, cancer, but I was getting ready to send a message to those I love with the latest update, and as I have at least one funny photo, I thought I would share the news here and…
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Trying to stay in the Moment
Jenny on January 28th, early in the morning, with the Bus about to start radiation. Note the Nancy skull pants! January 28-April 10 So, I wasn’t posting because I was having radiation and chemo for cancer, which was, as you might expect, not a very fun time. I am so blessed to have such…
The Story of The Quilt
The Story of the (First) Sea Turtle Quilt December 2024 It was sometime in November I when I came across the terrapin Grateful Dead fabric in the clearance rack at JoAnn’s, a place passes for a fabric store here in my neighborhood. Some voice in my head—Squishy the sea turtle—told me to buy all…
May You Have A Friend Like This: The Christmas Banana
This has been a rough holiday season because I found out I had cancer. I don’t want to go into the particulars, but it is scary, likely treatable, and untimely. So, I was not exactly feeling the Christmas cheer this season, although I was trying! The Wednesday before Christmas I went out with my awesome…
The Haunted Bus
October 31, 2024 We have some dear friends who live on Hill Drive in Eagle Rock, and this is an area that attracts trick-or-treaters at Halloween, and Halloween is my favorite holiday (besides Dia de Los Muertos, my birthday), so this year and last year we brought the Bus. This year was awesome because my…
The Last Post from the Trip
Jenny on the scary road…just in time for Halloween! Coming Home Day 16 August 10, 2024, Pacific Grove to Cayucos, 139 miles (without the nowhere road) A note: It has taken me so long to finish this, but now I must because the Bus will be the haunted Bus for Halloween, and I must get…
Almost Home: Marin to Santa Cruz
Day 15, August 9, 2024, Back to Borg’s’, Olema to Pacific Grove, 163 miles I slept in in the morning then woke up in the field—ah, yes, we were in Olema again—and I sat in my old camp chair to write earlier entries in this blog in the notebook, watching the fog and sun in…
Hallelujah, We Are Bums!
Day 14: August 8, Russian Gulch to Point Reyes Adjacent (Olema) 136 miles (but more with 128 detour added) so 163 miles? Robert at Olema Ranch, feeling his inner Utah Phillips The morning was so wet, I woke to the drizzle dripping off the aspen leaves onto the tent of the Bus and getting up…
Respite at Russian Gulch
Day 13: August 7, Russian Gulch Respite We were safe in the arms of the Bus and in Russian Gulch, one of my favorite Nor Cal parks, and we woke to rare morning sun, and I walked to the beach to sit on my beach rock and meditate, look for seal, but there were…
Getting on Down the Line
Jenny at Russian Gulch State Park, Mendocino, CA Day 12: Crescent City to Russian Gulch, August 6, 229 miles I was feeling terrible in the morning—my stomach—and at Crescent City by the beach we realized we needed new reservations for the trip, but some were solid, including our landing at Russian Gulch State Park,…
This Bus Could Be Our Life 