That said, there's not really a great e-commerce solution out there that's already built and integrates nicely with WP. Of course, you could always write your own, but that sounds crazy to me, it would be a full time job just keeping up with it. WP E-commerce is so buggy and every new version or two they break 50% of it fixing the previously broken 50%...I've been using WPMUdev.org's MarketPress lately, which is much, much simpler and less feature rich...but, it actually works, which I consider a bonus. :)

I just prefer how basic it all is compared to things like Jumla that have their own tagging / syntax systems that seem to make things more complicated in the end.

Agreed on the definition of travel. I'm a nomad, however long I tent in this town.

What's your least favorite thing about WordPress? (my tool of choice for a few years, though certainly not as long as you.)

Met a guy in Albuquerque who had two buses and two bugs, and he was lamenting the fact that it's not a poor man's ride any more. He'd found that parts were getting more and more expensive.

Since when is duct tape expensive? :)

No but the living places for a year or two thing is still "traveling" in my mind, it's an entirely different, no less interesting way to do it (vs. always being on the road). While having our two youngest babies, we called Manzanita, OR and Black Mountain, NC home for about 7 months at a time, and while I was always itchy to hit the road (well, technically we still live in Black Mountain, but we're there less and less as we make excuses for some place we just need to visit while we're back East), at the same time you get to be a part of a community, which is really the only thing I miss about stick house living. It's nice to have some people you can just call on the phone for a game of frolf or an afternoon beverage or whatever.

Thanks for the kind words on our sites. We just launched the wandrlymagazine.com one in an effort to move our income a little more away from my web design to something the whole family can partake in. Feel free to show us a little love on facebook.com/Wandrly, we sure could use it!

And let me know if you ever want to talk web design shop.

To be fair to Jersey (well, someone has to!) the deposit thing was one of the few issues we ran up against. Heard plenty of scary stories, but none of it came to visit us.

Wisconsin is beautiful. My daily walk (I'm working up from 2 miles to 3, and from twice a week to every day) takes me by the lake. A lake in Wisconsin on a sunny spring day is beyond breathtaking.

At the moment, we're not planning on traveling. But we're not planning on not traveling, either. We need to be here for a while, to get some things sorted in life (all good, but best done non-nomadic) and future traveling will probably be split between house-sitting gigs which are a perfect fit, and moving every year or two, but "settling" to some extent in between.

Of course, all that's subject to change depending on which way the wind blows tomorrow.

Hey, your sites are gorgeous. And while a pop-top isn't my favorite VW bus, any VW bus is better than most other things you could drive. Met a guy in Albuquerque who had two buses and two bugs, and he was lamenting the fact that it's not a poor man's ride any more. He'd found that parts were getting more and more expensive.

I miss my '61 beetle. I miss old cars, period.

Later I think I'll stalk your web dev work. Maybe there's a collaborative effort out there somewhere.

I've always thought Wisconsin was gorgeous.

Are you planning on traveling again at any point?