Hi, I'm Jenna. I'm a Georgia peach who traded a fixed address for Daisy - a Bronco Sport - and a rotating cast of other people's homes, other people's pets, and a lot of unfamiliar kitchens. These days I'm usually somewhere between a desert two-track and someone else's guest room: house-sitting my way around the world, pointing her at whatever backroad looks worth it, and writing in the gaps.
Far From Idle is where all of it lands - the trails and the two-tracks, the three-hour feeding schedules, the time zones, the strange comfort of a house that isn't yours. I write about what this life is actually like: the freedom and the logistics in roughly equal measure. Pull up a stool.
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