For the last year I’ve just been living in San Francisco, I love the city. Everyone does. It’s awesome. I’ve had a lot of time to explore and become a part of the local culture. I’ve hung out in the Castro, surrounded by gays, in the Mission, surrounded by hipsters, Noe Valley, surrounded by strollers, and at the wharf, surrounded by tourists.

I did make it back from Ohio, and business has been going very well. I just returned from a month-long wedding tour. I flew into Chicago, where I meet my friend and his 7 Austrian groomsmen. We drove in a passenger van up to Petoskey, MI, where the sand dunes were amazing. After the wedding, we drove back to Chicago, where I met two friends who were there for a Pearl Jam concert, and they drove me back to my home town, Hudson, Ohio. I spent a week there just in time for my Dad’s 60th birthday. Then took the Amtrak down to Arlington, VA. I stayed with the groom of the next wedding for a few weeks to explore DC and work from coffee shops before playing groomsman on the 26th. Now I’m back in San Francisco, the home base. Life is good.

The weather has been phenomenal since I’ve been back, but I’m sitting in my RV right now, rocking back and forth and watching the flood and high wind warnings on TV. Oh yes, I remember last winter, never going outside, having to dodge rain stints just to collect a food stock from the grocery store 2 miles up the street. I don’t want to go through that again.

So, I remember Arizona having a pretty nice winter. And I just happen to live in a home on wheels. This is my current day dream.
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I’ll at least make it through LA, to visit my client from modernmataortiz.com, and hopefully to see Sunny, my old friend from my first stay in AZ. I could take the upper Route 10 since the weather isn’t as treacherous as my trip here was in the summer, when I took Route 8. From there it sure would be nice to hit up an entire West Coast loop. If things went perfectly, I’d save up enough to have solar panels installed, so that I could dry camp the whole way. Dry camping is living with out hook-ups, or water, electric and sewage. I have enough battery power to run lights, fan, and laptop for about a week. I can store 100 gallons of fresh water and 80 gallons of combined waste water. This means, along with a mobile Internet card, I can park on roadsides, parking lots, or national parks, and work on Websites. That saves a lot of money on rent, and trust me, it’s way more fun.