After spending yesterday as the dumb American tourists in France, today we have a much more welcoming agenda planned ahead of us. Courtesy of no one else but Teta Milica. She has planned for us to go visit her daughter, Marlene’s second cousin, at a real working countryside farm that’s been in her husband’s family for many generations.
Our first morning in France we awoke to breakfast already made for us. This is something we can get use to. Teta Milica does not mess around. There were fresh pastries and hot coffee as well as mini cereal boxes with milk for the girls. It was immediately clear that our usual pace of strolling around inside the Airstream wearing our pajamas ’til lunch was not going to fly here. Teta Milica means business and we already have a full day planned.
First of all, I want to set things straight with this series of posts. Unlike our 2010 Cross Country posts, it is not likely I will write a post per day on this trip. Unlike a road trip, we don’t have a car and we stay in only a handful of places. That means a handful of days on this trip were not too different from each other. I will try to stay in chronological order though and highlight some of the days that were more significant. For example, our transit day from Los Angeles to Paris.
Last year we spent just about half of our nights in the Airstream. 4 months of them being continuously on the road when we traveled cross country and the rest of them were mostly week-long trips at nearby campgrounds. You know the old cliché, “Time flies when you are having fun.” I guess that is true to a certain extent. Time definitely crawls when you are waiting in line at the DMV or in a Wal-Mart checkout line on a Sunday afternoon. But, when we are at home, the days and weeks seem to be just carbon copies of each other. The mundane routines and household chores take up so much time that we wouldn’t even notice when suddenly several months have flown by. That is what the first half of 2011 have been like.
Is this kid bored or what?
If you are wondering why the blog has been so quiet lately, we have a good reason. We are on a little European adventure. We were planning on doing a daily blog but found that the internet here is too unreliable… so you will have to wait until we get Read more…
It’s no secret that I am in love with General Hospital. It’s written right there in my bio for the whole world to see. I’ve been watching that soap opera since as long as I can remember. Seriously. My mom would pick me up from elementary school at 2:35pm and we’d race back home in her gold Firebird (vroom!!!) so we could hunker down to watch the last couple segments together.
My love for that show is so bad that I actually follow most of the actors on my personal twitter feed. Dan thinks it’s ridiculous. At first, I added my actor “friends” to our joint Mali Mish twitter account. He got a little fed up and banished all my “friends” to my personal account. Curse you, Dan!
But then a little miracle happened. One of my favorite dudes, Ingo Rachmacher who plays Jax, asked all his twitter followers this question:
We are sad that we are not at Alumapalooza this year. We were on the fence about going this year… and last year too. But we have our sights on it for 2012. But this year, we will be sitting at home, patiently waiting for someone (anyone!) to post pictures on facebook, twitter or their blog. So yeah, we are jealous.
Enough of this techy stuff. It’s time to soften up this blog a bit!!
I am a huge fan of Etsy. As I am of Anthropologie. And this week my heart broke a little when Anthropologie’s big sister, Urban Outfitters, pretty much stole a line of necklaces from a small guy gal on Etsy. People were going nuts. But then a little article came out on Regetsy about people on Etsy stealing from others on Esty and it shut some of them up and for others, added more fuel to the fire.
But I am not hear to preach to you about how stealing is wrong. I am here to help you do a little shop shopping for your Airstream and/or home.
I’ve stumbled upon a couple awesome prints on Etsy that are fitting for those of us that enjoy the road. This first one by The Wheatfield is my favorite. It is currently sold out but I’m sure it will be back in stock soon. And when it is, I am buying one ASAP… unless you swoop in and get to it first. Damn, maybe I should have kept this my little secret.
The key to staying on the road is to live on the road. I know that probably sounds obvious but the definition of ‘living’ on the road means you will need to be financially sustainable while on the road. Luckily for me, I am self-employed and required only a steady and unlimited Internet connection to be able to do my job. But that is easier said than done.
Our blog friend Tiffany from Wandering Airstream just posted a little Q&A she did featuring us on her blog. She and her husband are traveling the country in their beautifully restored Argosy (pictured above). Stop by there and say hello! Mali Mish Q & A at WanderingAirstream.com
Everyone should know that the President of the United States flies in a Boeing 747 called Air Force One. Many people might also know that the vice president rides in a separate plane called Air Force Two that is usually a Boeing 757. So just how far down does the presidential line of succession do we have to go before we hit an Airstream? Well, apparently not that far. Air Force Six.
People have asked us about the insulation in the Airstream on a few occasions. Since we have not owned a ton of other trailers, it is hard for me to compare with others. But I could comment on how our experiences have been having traveled through various weather conditions in Read more…