Anecdotally AccurateA life on the road
My Four Winds motorhome parked beneath a starry night sky.

Field notes from the motorhome · Autumn 2026

East, one
parking lot at a time.

The office has a steering wheel.
These are the logs.

Montana → South Dakota → the Ozarks → Daphne, Alabama

The journal

Mile markers

The changelog

Plumbing updates included.

The Day the Starlink Took Flight

The Walmart parking lot in Sheridan turned out to be an excellent place to spend the night. No reservation, no bill, and no particular reason to complain. I warmed up the motorhome and got moving in the morning, with Apple Maps pointing me toward Gillette. I even got a look at Sheridan’s old mill and the Mill Inn in the early light. The trip odometer was showing 139 miles since I reset it at the Billings fuel stop, a number that will eventually be useful once I have a reliable full-tank-to-full-tank comparison.

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A Workday in Billings, Then Sheridan

My first night on the road turned out to be a pretty good argument for free parking. I spent it in the Bass Pro/Cabela’s and Sam’s Club lot in Billings. There was a little highway noise, but nothing that caused a problem. I pulled out at 8:15 in the morning, with sunshine and an actual workday ahead of me.

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A Dry Run to Billings

October 25, 2026 After what felt like several geological eras installing batteries, wrangling the inverter, pulling cable through the motorhome, and discovering new opportunities to rearrange the electrical system, I finally did something that didn’t require a crimper: I drove it somewhere. Apparently the motorhome is meant for traveling, rather than providing increasingly elaborate opportunities to question my electrical decisions.

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