Eight months on the road!

Wassup, Traipser! Dakota here with my newsletter, which I started 13 years ago when typewriters were more popular than iPhones. AI wasn’t around then and I sure as hell don’t use it to write now. (It would scrub my jokes, probably comma splices too!) Vamoose, robots, this is MY newsletter about creativity, travel and living our best life.Kicking today off with a quote from novelist Hermann Hesse on what we all can do:“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.”Here in Airstream land, we’re continuing our Canadian summer adventure. Unfortunately, like half of North America and Europe, we spent some of July plagued by heat and wildfire smoke. There was at least solidarity in…