Sitemap - 2024 - Tom Ryan, Author

Look Who We Ran Into

Tonight, I Want to Hear from You

A Song Dog Greeting

We Found the Perfect Prayer Spot

Founding Members Exclusive Preview: Our Tucson Rental

Day 21: The American West Begins with White Sands National Park

Postcards: Hemingway’s 6-Toed Cats

We Needed To Be Where the Buffalo Roam

Postcards: We Ran Into a Gang of Key West Toughs

The Smallest Post Office in the US & Robert is Here

Everglades National Park

Day Two: Layers in the Berkshires

Postcards from the Open Road: The Great South Carolina Beach Wind

When Things Fall Apart, From Jackson to the Berkshires

Shenandoah National Park

Day 4 on the Road: Jeff & Seamus

Postcards from the Open Road: Chapter One

Coddiwomple Launch Day: 3-Hour Delay

Snow! Our Travels Will Begin In A Snowstorm

Final Details & Snow in Our Travel Forecast

We're Ready For The Open Road

The Grand Ending of Our Last Coddiwomple Sets Up the Opening Acts of Our Next One

One Way This Trip Will Differ

Thanksgiving 2024: We Were Told There Would Be Snow

A Question: What are you eating this Thanksgiving?

A Woodland Night Saunter

Question: What do you love about rainy November days?

Concerning Samwise

'Going Out I Found Was Really Going In'

November’s What Are You Reading?

Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock

The Love of Bare November Days

Finding Our Parks

Founding Member Exclusive: Christmas or Hanukkah?

November Gratitude

A Pre-Election Day Balm for Your Soul

Our Best Month

Re-Explaining Moab

Oh, The People We Meet: Anna, the Trucker

A Playful Interlude to Help with Your Stress

Emily's Day: Her Seventh Anniversary

It's Will's Day

An Introvert Fights Off Depression with a Prescription of Solitude

A Grave Admission

Postcards from Home: Eyes

Choosing October

As a Stroke, Kidney Failure, and Heart Attack Survivor, These Are the Foods I'll Travel with on a 5-Month, 20,000 Mile Road Trip

Founding Members Postcard Post

10/14/2024: Today’s Colors in Video

The Season of the Witch

Dawn at Thorne Pond

Lessons from Florida & Notes on Travel

Postcards from New Hampshire: October 8, 2024

Looking for Emily (Video)

🍁🍂Postcards from Our Area: the Color Parade Continues! 🍂🍁

An October Bliss Appetizer

Fall Foliage Postcards

Welcome, October: Fall Foliage, Tour Bus Flotillas, Wild Snakes, Hurricanes, Rescue Dogs, and Another Trip Reveal

Autumn’s Solitude

September’s What Are You Reading?

Video: Chased on the Trail

Reader Question: Fall Weekends

Dawn's Cloud & Light Show

The Infinite Yes! (with thanks to ee cummings)

Autumn's Refrain

Night Magic with the Beavers and the Geese at the Pond

Bad News, Good News

Countdown: 86 Days

Chapter Three: From Vermont East to California

Oh, September!

Coddiwomple 2024-2025 Anchor Stay #1 Revealed

Sharing September Peace For You

The Countdown Is On: 94 Days!

A Little Jung on Today’s Ramble

How was your summer? Are you excited about the fall?

"listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go"

Welcome, September!

Emily's Night Swimming

Will, Samwise, Emily & You!

Founding Member Questions Answered

Special Post: Scrambled Tofu Recipe

Oh, the Places We'll Go!

A Samwise & Emily Letter

Chapter Two: From Vermont East to California

A Desert Saunter

Chapter One: From Vermont East to California

Founding Member Exclusive: Bear Nights

A Vermont Adventure

A Reader Question: Which Photo Would You Choose?

Founding Member Exclusive

Samwise & Emily Consider the HMS Beagle

The Beavers Are Back!

Founding Member Exclusive: Early Travel Thoughts for Coddiwomple 2025

A Question For You

IMPORTANT: Exclusive Founding Member Letter

July's What Are You Reading(?) List: Four Books

Nineteen Photos

Yes, the News is Nuts, But We Have a Bear

Emily Knows a Good Statue

Founding Member Exclusive Letter: Early Trip Considerations

Finding Hope, When Needed Most, In Fiction

A Utah Daydream to Beat the Heat

Coming Attraction: The Birth of a Treasure Hunt

Summer Night, Summer Night!

Meeting Thomas Jefferson & The Racist

What are your top 3 summer foods?

Founding Members Exclusive Post

How Emily's Lobster Takes Us to Cape Cod, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edward Hopper

Crutches, Pain, Saying Goodbye to Clarence, and Hello to a New Chariot

The Day After

A Rough, Wilting Day

The Art of Skinny Dipping

Writing Two Books at Once

You Are Amazing!

Walk with Us

Looking Backward & Forward

How do you do breakfast?

A Selma Memory

May's What Are You Reading?

Introducing 3 New Framed Photos

Memorial Day Weekend Story: Sacraments of Travel

Instant Summer

Postcards from Petrified Forest National Park

Our Literary Pilgrimage

Samwise & His Spring Renewal

Proof of Healing

Awakening

Sunshine & California Poppies Along the Merced River Trail

Getting Back to Normal

My Dear Sam

Beginnings

Someone felt playful today

Samwise Health Update, Part 1

Returning Home

Mark Twain’s Grave

Leaving Lexington

A Fun Announcement

Samwise Health Updates Through the Week

Postcards from the Open Road: The Gateway Arch

3 Minutes of Peace

Hookers, the Waffle House, Friends, and a Dead Trappist

My Birthday Weekend

A Mini Preview from Today’s Travels

Our Final Western Hour

Our Final Western Sunset

Prairie Sublime

Theodore Roosevelt National Park Vibes

Yellowstone Brings Samwise the Medicine He Needed

Yellowstone Medicine

Samwise, Emily & I Visit Hemingway's Grave

Bend, Oregon

Travel Day: Redwoods Bound

“I am not asking for a topless photo, Donna!”

Postcards from the Open Road: Sunrise on John Muir’s Farm

Visiting John Muir's Grave

April’s What Are You Reading?

Founding Member Travel Day Post

This Mariposa Golden Light

Jackass Hill & Mark Twain

A Change in Travel Plans

Reset Coming

Surprised in Mariposa

Mariposa Week: A Good Time Coming

A Spectacular Sunday Rates as the Best Day of Our Trip

John Steinbeck's Cannery Row

A Confession: I've Been Traveling with a Secret

The Monterey Peninsula: John Steinbeck Country

Cards & Postcards Continue to be Sent

Travel Day Post 🧳

A Return Hike to the Elephant Seals

Carmel by the Sea, Monterey Peninsula

A Familiar Ache

We Could Live Here

We See These Two Locals Most Mornings

We Saw God Today

Your Choice

Adopted by Chapo & Oscar

Sights Along Our Dawn Hike of Black Hill

Founding Member Exclusive: Oscar & Chapo

Happy Birthday, Emily (& Atticus)!

Heading to the Lush Life

Founding Members Calendar Poll

Postcards from the Open Road: Early Trail Hours in Valley of Fire State Park

A Most Remarkable Twenty-Four Hours, Part 2

Founding Member Exclusive: This morning

A Most Remarkable Twenty-Four Hours

Founding Member News

Our Final Video

Postcards from the Open Road: Our Final Sonoran Day

Coincidence

Death in West Barnstable

When Wrecked Plans Sparkle

Traveling Mercies: Dominic

Founding Member Exclusive Poll

Postcards from the Open Road: Sonoran Desert After the Rain

The Curious Coyote

February's What are You Reading?

My Father Visited this Week

Rachel Carson and Her Gentle Refrains Reach Us in the Sonoran Desert

A Question: What is one favorite travel memory?

Why the Sonoran Desert Holds Me So!

Postcards from the Open Road: I am in Love

A Founding Member Exclusive Preview of the Next Five Weeks

A Clarence Update & $2,000 Repair Bill

An Announcement: Come for the Winners, Stay for the Photos and Herman Hesse Poem

The Waiting Game, Why We Choose Hilton, and Meeting Debbie

Where We've Been; Where We're Going

A Weekend Electronics Respite

A New Hat, a Tour of Our February Casita & a Good Cause

Horror on the Highway

Founding Members Exclusive Preview: Video Tour of our Tucson Casita

Thank You, Utah

Messing About in Ghost Canyon

Navajo Blessings on the Road to Nowhere

A Little Joy for Your Winter Night

Dispatches from the Road

These Moab Days

Postcards from the Open Road: Sunrise at Moab’s Corona & Bowtie Arches

Eating a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet on the Road

Meeting Eitan at Monument Valley

Founding Members Exclusive: Wilson Arch

Monument Valley

An Epic 6 Miles at the Grand Canyon

'Mudded Out' in the Four Corners

Three Stages of Our Day

Samwise's Blood Test: A Wake-up Call

Happiness is…

We’ve Arrived: The American West

Postcards from the Open Road: Isle of Palms

Reunion!

Our D.C. Dance, Part 2

Rest Area Perfection

Enchanting Hours in Washington, DC

The Power & the Glory

A Founding Member Exclusive: A 4 am Scene from Today

Postcards from the Open Road: Our Last Day on Cape Cod

Question: What’s your go-to road trip food?

The Storm Rages & We Hunker Down

Attempting the Provincetown Breakwater

Wind!

Waking Up in Provincetown