Taking Your Camera on the Road

Journal: Falling Trees and Friends Part Three
Greensboro, NC
July 6, 1998
The next morning, I awoke to a kitten in the truck and an angry old cat in the trailer. I put the kitten back in the trailer and let the old cat get angrier, and caught up with Linda, the healed Southern Baptist, for [...]

Journal: Falling Trees and Friends Part Two
Greensboro, NC
July 5, 1998
We learned later that the storm that hit us brought with it something I'd never heard of. A "white wind". The news described it as "not a tornado but a very unusual wind blast created when two extreme weather conditions came together with force." [...]

Journal: Falling Trees and Friends Part One
Greensboro, NC
July 1, 1998
We have survived our arrival in North Carolina and are slowly beginning to get entrenched here. Tomorrow my mother arrives for our first "from home" visitor to our new "temp" home. I've gotten to know some of the people around the campground, especially the [...]

As I start work again on my book, Home is Where Lorelle is, I will be posting some chapters here on our site in the Telling Zone under 1996-1999 when we hit the road full-time, crossing North America from Seattle to Florida to Arizona to Alaska to Florida and a lot of places in between [...]

Another very popular essay, and our first "eco-story", Lorelle tells the story of our encounter with some mountain marmots on Mt. Rainier and a very, very blonde blonde.

After several years on the road, a simple jaunt from Greensboro, North Carolina, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, should be easy - no trauma. Ah, but when you are traveling with the VanFossens, anything can happen, and it does.

An essay Lorelle wrote in a writing class that received high acclaim but was lost in our move to Israel. It's been found and published here first. It is her only fictional work, a short story about how the life and dreams of a young girl can be changed by watching her aunt fight for her life and her dreams and lose.

You think you have had your worst day in life? So far, no one seems to be able to compete with this absolute day from hell Lorelle experienced, and it started with Christine Lavin and a little engine trouble with the truck. It was downhill from there.