Author Archive: tkscovill
Simplicity, Found?
November 5, 2012 So much time has gone by since I last wrote here that I really don’t know where to start. So I guess I’ll start over. I named this blog “Ontheroadtosimplicity,” thinking that one day I might actually find it. Simplicity, I mean. Little did I know how hard it would be to …
Simplicity?
What is simplicity? Where do we find it? Can we hold onto it? Simplicity will be the theme of this blog for a while. It’s time for me to complete this journey
But first, a few details…
Ten days ago we flew out to California, rented a Penske truck, drove up to the Northwest corner of the state and started packing what I thought would be our last truck. It took three days to pack. It didn’t all fit so we left the rest there. The truck is full to the brim, everything solidly …
Spreading out
This is the house we will be renting for the next year. At this moment it is filled with boxes and disheveled furniture, waiting for us to return from our second UHaul trip with even more stuff. I’m guessing it will take us at least a month to settle in. I am looking forward to …
Catching up…again
We are halfway through the second “UHaul” trip. This time we are using a Penske truck, but “UHaul” just sounds better somehow. Anyway, the last week and a half has been filled with so much activity that it has been impossible for me to keep up with my own thoughts, much less write them …
My Great Grandmother’s house
Today we went to lunch at my great grandmother’s house. This house is very special to our family. My great grandfather built it with his own hands in 1928, and then the two of them continued to raise their children there. Here are a couple photos that hang on the wall inside what is now …
What I did instead of writing today
OK. I didn’t catch up with my blogging today. But I did do something productive, and then, something delightfully relaxing. Sam and I agreed that the RV is getting a bit tight for us, especially when we both want to work on our computers. There is only so much space on our little table, and …
In process….
I said I would take a couple weeks and process. Well, it’s been more than a couple of weeks, and I am still processing. The thing is that every day we are seeing more and more and adding to the pile of stuff to integrate. Since arriving we haven’t stopped exploring–campgrounds, big towns, small towns, …
What about those five senses?
Written July 8, 2012 When I started this blog in March I said I would record what my five senses gave me to record. Mostly, for this part of the story, I have written about what I have seen, but now and then a smell or a sound was the focus. The smell of thousands …
on the road to simplicity 