Road Fables
& Highway Yarns
Stories about hitchhiking and Airstreams, raising kids on the road and VW Buses, full-time sailing… and building a place to call home when the adventures slow down. Musings on nature and thoughts on some of our favorite places.
We’ve hosted a plethora of blogs over the years, written by our own family and talented travelers from across the world.
Below are those stories, neatly organized. Or just get the latest posts as they’re written at the main blog.
Postcards 151 Posts
Short accounts of our family's travels organized as digital postcards. The places we love the most and the stories that we think make them so special.
Meanderings 142 Posts
Three years of our family of six living and traveling the US in a 1976 Airstream travel trailer.
Mosey Home 120 Posts
The story of the years our family lived in our 1978 VW Bus. From 2009 - 2011, making and raising babies, and again in 2016 & 2017, traveling Mexico and Belize.
Tumblewagon 74 Posts
A father and son during their first year on the road, in a Class C RV.
The Rising Road 31 Posts
Jo Magpie, and her husband, Hrach, hitchhike across Europe.
Zidar & Fabio 9 Posts
The story of a couple building and then living full-time on their sailboat, told by Kate Zidar.
In Search of... 8 Posts
Amanda Bloom lived out of a 1988 VW Golf as she traveled the country. This is her tale.
Notes from the Field 6 Posts
Nathan @ Wand'rly is obsessed with nature. From identifying birds to hugging trees, stargazing to fire safety, this is his nature journal.
Curry Compass 5 Posts
Questioning everything, a Mexican family shares their extraordinary stories of learning around the world, without a timeline or agenda and with a compass of hodgepodge: curry.
Roadsteady 2 Posts
Building a small place to call home in between the adventures.