Former President Jimmy Carter in my thoughts
byWith former President Jimmy Carter in the news lately concerning his cancer diagnosis, I have been reflecting on the time I came in contact…
Jimmy Smith’s Another View
RVer Jimmy Smith muses on a misty spring morning
byRVer Jimmy Smith has been waking earlier and earlier as the sun eases it way north on its seasonal journey. “Years ago I started…
RVer Jimmy Smith reflects on a rainy day on the Coastal Bend of Texas
byOur rolling cottage is resting for a month in its site at the Sandollar RV Park on the Coastal Bend of Texas. We returned…
RVer Jimmy Smith remembers a stormy December night 35 years ago on a small Maine island
byIt was 1979 when the 118-pound Jimmy Smith spent the summer bicycling from Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast to Camden, Maine, on the…
RVer Jimmy Smith’s musings on frogs, new rig, cozy Timber Valley SKP Park
byIn a reflective mood, fulltime RVer Jimmy Smith muses on the songs of frogs, the acquiring of our latest rig, and the cozy RV…
Jimmy Smith … listening to the crickets
byJimmy and I are into the first week of our sixth year of RVing around America. This Autumn we are heading East from Spokane…
Nez Perce Bear Paw Battlefield … “I will fight no more forever” — Chief Joseph
byIt was 137 years ago on Oct. 5, that Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrendered following the final battle of the four-month Nez Perce War of…
RVer Jimmy Smith muses about camping by a lake, watching eagles soar, catching trout
byAfter more than three months of a self-imposed writing sabbatical, RVer Jimmy Smith returns to reflect on our week-long boondocking trip to a sweet little…
RVer Jimmy Smith sews first spring seeds
byAs much as RVer Jimmy Smith loves traveling the two-lane highways of America and boondocking near small mountain lakes–he lives to get his hands…
RVer Jimmy Smith rethinks his whole concept of leisure
byIn Jimmy Smith’s latest entry in his on-going reflections about nothing in particular and his “own internal landscape” in general, he continues to…