“I just can’t do it … I just can’t, my brain just is not wired that way. I give up”, snuggles was just off the trail looking completely demolished. “I think it is just fear, you have to make that connection to trust” We walked the drop again. The roll-in was a bit squirrely and…

This may just be my weirdness slipping out. Living in Livingston one finds out pretty quickly that they must wave to everyone and for goodness sake always stop to talk. When we lived in other communities people wouldn’t even acknowledge us. Now I am starting to think. I’ll bet that built into us as humans…

Every morning I go out for a walk. The weird thing is that I get this hankering to take my shoes off and walk through the park. And today I was wondering … Why is that us humans do everything possible to get away from the earth? We make sidewalks, we have cars, and our…

It’s been a month since my birthday. Right smack dab at the start of the lock-down. I have to say that even with being chained to a cell I have things to appreciate. Like the person who made me a flour-less and sugarless cake, which I may add is my favorite treat. And I am…

It’s nearly over. They are about to release us back out into freedom. This morning’s walk is a little bit more enjoyable. I’m seeing the beauty. I’m seeing spring elements. I am seeing hope. Everything is more beautiful. And everything is more positive. And we are going to pack #buttonsthevan. And go camping.

The gravel has been wet but insanely delicious. Weirdly enough it snows every day but then it dries. We go out to a gravel haunt and it is dry. So all the while it is depressing to be on lockdown and consistently look out the window to a depressing scene, the afternoons seem to work…

Three days ago there was a knock on the door. Would it be the testers. Comming to find if you HAD IT and if you did cart you away to a cell in solitude. Today we are now opening the box that the delivery person left at our door. IT was extremely relieving that it…

Of course, our couch is a bike seat. And tv, well it is the outdoors. We are not traveling but we do travel. On two wheels. Livingston is a paradise for gravel grinding. And here in Montana, our counties are HUGE. We can go out all day and not leave home. Yea, binge-watching at the…

I am in #buttonsthevan. Been here for two days. I just had to get out of the apartment. I’ve been working on a couple of things. I’ve insulated. One wall and the ceiling. I have created more headspace by taking out a wall and using the window covering. I’ve installed lights and a bike rack.…

We will be closed for a while said the sign at our favorite movie theater. I remember the empty stores as I pull the last sheet of toilet paper. A concerned look washes over my face before changing to complete bliss. A challenge. We will go out and make our movies and adventure. And we…

Three weeks ago Snuggles went to Costco to only find it gutted. We knew something was afoot. Then the Governor told us to stay home. Besides my daily attempts to escape via adventure bike, this is what we have been doing. Every day it is the same. I head out on Orca only to succumb…

With things the way they are it is really hard to think back to a time when adventure was so easy. An idea was born. Then executed. Just like that. Now it is like we are not allowed to go out to explore. And we slip into a convict mentality. How long would it take…

Quarantine is hard. Simply the most difficult thing to give up is our freedom. So today I’m thinking back to a time when we just jumped into buttons and took off for some Adventure. Freedom to Adventure. Adventures to Freedom. I miss Adventure. I missed the freedom to Adventure.

I’m up early and nothing much to see here. Only disgruntles with their loud pickups driving the streets looking to run down violators. I’m too fast for them. Slipping in and out of alleys. I make it to the tracks were Honkie, our friendly engineer honker, lays on the horn to wake up Livingston. I…

Deadman’s Basin. It’s a reservoir just outside of Shawmut Montana. As a child. I don’t know if I was told or what, but I thought that people would die in this lake because the winds would kick up and capsize fishing boats. And that people will get swept away in the overflow drain. But the…

Living … in … a … van … down … by … the … river. That Saturday Night Live skit was hilarious. But really what if someone we knows does actually live in a van down by the river. I have been hearing the word “old” a lot lately. “My teacher is so old they…