This blog's purpose is to write about traveling in 'Rita (my camping van) in 2021 - for whomever is interested but mostly to write and post photos about experiences traveling across the country but also living in Arkansas for part of the year - a state that I've never lived in. My only experience with Arkansas prior to Mackenzie and Ted & Twins living there was in 1973 on a disastrous honeymoon in a foldable camper that was being pulled behind a station wagon. Not only was the honeymoon a disaster, but the marriage was too - but that's another story. This story begins at the end of Tony's time living with me in Oregon during the pandemic while he finished his masters degree in Music Performance. The following story about tells it all. (For the actual ink to this story, go to: ) Tony has left Oregon to go back to Vermont to teach at the piano music camp where he has taught for the past 4-