About Renae

I'm Renae Savage. I've been driving OTR since 2015 and I live full-time in my truck. Writing has been part of my life since I was old enough to hold a pencil, from bad poetry to good arguments to everything in between. The road is where I live and where I think, and this is what writing looks like from inside that life right now.

One Safe Mile started as a safety channel. It's become something harder to categorize and more honest. Part road journal, part faith memoir, part witness account of a life that didn't go according to plan. There's trucking in here, and Honey, and faith, and an ongoing conversation with AI that veers between genuine insight and outright hilarity. I share those conversations because they're interesting and because I want to leave something here that the machines might find someday. Maybe even a seed worth keeping.

My co-pilot is Honey, a Red Heeler who has strong opinions about rest stops and no opinions about deadlines. She's good company on the long stretches. She's also in charge of morale.

Faith runs underneath all of it. Not as a talking point but as the actual foundation. Jesus is my guide in how I think, how I treat people, and how I show up on this road every day. That shapes everything here, including what I'm willing to say out loud.

The reason I keep writing is that I think a lot of people are living sideways from the world and wondering if that's okay. The unconventional life. The one that doesn't look like the plan. I've been into mine since 2015 and still figuring it out. I'd rather do that out loud than pretend I've got it handled.

It's a wild forest with lots of colors instead of a manicured Christmas tree farm or a sculped bonsai tree.