A slow-travel journal
Though our home is small, its windows open on a wide world.
David & Diane, a van named Walden, and the long way round. Field notes from a life lived a little differently.
Latest from the road
The journal
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In Praise of Plain Places: Finding Beauty near Keith
Some places don't announce themselves. On an ordinary morning near Keith in Moray, we found that the plainest corners of Scotland reward…
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Campervan Parking in Keith: The Quiet Economics of a Warm Welcome
Finding easy campervan parking in Keith, Scotland, and why a big, welcoming space brings outside money into small Moray towns. Practical notes…
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Vanlife Laundry Day: Everything Clean at Once in Forres, Scotland
How laundry really works when home is a van: where to go, what it costs, and the unexpected joy of everything you…
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Findhorn Beach: Sunset Walks and a Motorhome Stopover on the Moray Coast
Staying by the beach at Findhorn, Scotland, a lazy Moray village with a motorhome stopover a short walk from the sand, and…
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A Quiet Harbour on the NC500: An Overnight at Latheronwheel
Finding a quiet harbour to overnight on the NC500: Latheronwheel, on the Caithness coast, where fifty fishing boats once worked and now…
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Two Rainy Weeks in Orkney: Standing Stones, Native Beasts, and the Churchill Barriers
It rained at some point every single day for two weeks in Orkney, and it never once mattered. The people, the livestock,…
Featured series
A Scottish Summer, the Slow Way
Beaches on the Moray Firth, standing stones older than the pyramids, and quiet harbours on the NC500, met with beautiful people, wonderful history, and a bit of rain that never once dampened the welcome.
Postcards, occasionally
A letter from the road, once a month.
Where we've been, what we cooked, and the one road we'd drive again. No spam. We can barely find signal as it is.
Lately on Instagram @newnomads.van