The Lure of Lithium Iron Phosphate

I will be “building out” Nautilus this spring and summer.

I named my Sprinter van after the submarine that Captain Nemo piloted in Jules Verne’s prophetic tale of adventure, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Consider that Step One in the camper van building process.

What’s Step Two?

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Parked on Pearl

By the time this year’s cicadas have vanished from the Connecticut landscape, I could be halfway to Oregon, where my middle daughter lives in a floating home with her wife and their two dogs — a shepherd the size of a wolf and a tiny Chihuahua — and a beta fish named Sailor.

Or I could be halfway back to Connecticut. 

That’s how fluid and casual things will be in my newly nomadic #vanlife.

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