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- WHOA – STILL DWELLING IN OUR MOTORHOME – TWO YEARS NOT TRAVELING – FINALLY HAVE INTERNET WE CAN USE – ADAPTED MY NOVEL INTO A SCREENPLAY – THAT WAS FUN – HAD A LOT TO LEARN AND LEARNED WHILE WRITING – NOW READY TO SELL – DUH – PANDEMIC – YOU GOT TO BE KIDDNIG – STILL – OUR GOD REIGNS – THE LORD IS ALWAYS GOOD –
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- So Long – So Long – Not Goodbye but Too Long not to Post – We Live the RV Life – Data Costs More than We Like – Posting Requires Data – Almost Decided to Quit Posting – Catch Up Time –
- I Opened the Shades to See the Sun Rise – Black Storm Clouds Loomed – What Would Sunrise Look Like – Would the Light Shine Through – YES – Gloom Gave Way to Bursting Shades of Purple Pink and Lavendar – Reminding Me of Troubled Times that Shrink When Grace and Truth Appear – God Is Good – Hang on When Trouble Hides the Light – Ashes Blow Away – Beauty Remains –
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- Beginning Our 2018-19 Tour in our Motorhome – And the Excitement Builds – What Could Be So Exciting – For Me – Looking Out Our Windows Beholding New Surroundings – I Love It –
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- Bikes in Our Future – Steve Turning 80 Soon – Carol Ann 70 – We Think We Can Ride Them and Have Fun – Good Exercise – A Recap of Challenging Journey – Different from Our First Year that Happened without a Hitch –
- Las Cruces New Mexico – Destination for Fun with Friends – Fellow RVers Meet Us Here – We Dine Together at Local Restaurants – And There Are Plenty – Steve Had Coach and Jeep Washed after Five Days of Rain and Mud in Texas – Now They Shine Again –
- Long Time No Post – Spent All Our Time Having Fun with Family – But Then Moved on and Parked Here in Louisiana – View of the Bayou – Simple but Adequate RV Park – Staying Longer than Scheduled – Again Diverging from Our Original Plan –
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- Had to Share this Photo of Lake Erie Shore – We Arrived this Afternoon Greeted by a Wasp that Flew into the Small Window Used to Pay Tolls from the Driver’s Seat – Last Year Hornets Invaded the Cockpit – One Huge Wasp Was Just as Effective in Slowing Down our Progress until We Smacked it Silly and Tossed it in the Trash –
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- Camping on Little Pigeon River Makes Up for Being Canceled by Our RV Park on the Mighty Mississippi – Which Flooded Her Banks This Year – Here We Are on Another Riverbank – Enjoying the View –
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Stretching ourselves again – Lord – Leaving our comfort zone …. How I’ve settled here – Loving sameness – Loving stillness – Sometimes seeing the day we leave Our campsite as the day We launch our home on wheels … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir, Photos, Poetry
Tagged Author, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Comfort Zone, Faith, Horizon, Lord Jesus, Motorhome, No fear, Novel, Perspective, Point of View, RV, Suspense, Unknown
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First Tour of the United States of America Completed – We Made It Through Unscathed – We Feel Blessed and Grateful to the Lord for Success – What Was It Like – AWESOME –
We traveled 6,885 miles and camped at 35 RV parks over a period of six months. We visited family in Texas, Florida, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, and Michigan. Coming or going we passed through the additional states of Arizona, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir, Photos
Tagged Beautiful America, Camping, Church, Explore, Local sights, Motorhome, Movies, RV, RV parks, Shopping, Tour, Tour of America, Travel, United States of America, Visit Family
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Church on Sunday at East Stroudsburg United Methodist – Downtown East Stroudsburg – Continuing to Visit Churches in the USA – Camping in The Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania –
We arrived a few minutes late. GPS got us there but finding a parking place took some time. We put quarters in a meter but afterward noticed that other drivers apparently were parking free. Oh well, we got there and were … Continue reading
We Left Our Coach to Visit Steve’s Family – When We Arrived Back at Our Campground Four Days Later – Chelsea Knew – I Think She Thought We Lost Our Coach and Found It Again – I Believe I Heard Her Laugh
As we pulled into the RV Park, Chelsea got excited. We were not even near the coach yet, but she knew we were home again. (How do you like Steve’s pajamas? Hey, we are camping. Dress is casual early in … Continue reading
Another Small Town – This One in Pennsylvania – East Stroudsburg – I Do Not Get the Sense this a Tourist Town – But It Could Be – Great Restaurants – Charm – Pocono Mountains – Tall Trees – Natural Beauty in Abundance –
I snapped this photo from inside our Jeep. I sliced off the ceiling of the vehicle with the WordPress edit tool. I think it looks better that way. This is an example of the small town charm of East Stroudsburg, … Continue reading
Pennsylvania Campground Spectacular Experience – Surrounded by Beauties of Nature – Trees – Trees – Trees – Tall Shady Trees – Sunshine Slanting through Branches – Sunrise in Forest –
Sunrise in the forest. Pennsylvania woods. Campground spectacular. I don’t have time this morning for many words, but this picture and the following one tell the story. We will be here for awhile. This is the view looking outside our … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir, Photos
Tagged Campground, Forest Sunrise, Motorhome, Nature, Pennsylvania Campground, RV, Shady, Slanting sunlight, Spectacular Experience, Sunlight, Sunrise, Sunshine, Tall Trees, View from Window
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Dynamo Man Clears the Land with a Shovel – Overgrown Weeds Are No More – Job Is Nearly Finished – Steve – You Are Good –
Steve is in the left top quadrant of the photo clearing the land of overgrown weeds with his shovel one square foot at a time. I am amazed at the difference his labor has made in only four weeks of … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Photos
Tagged Buyer Choose, Clearing Land, Dynamo Man, Grass, Overgrown Weeds, Plant Grass, Progress, Shovel, Steve
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Ocotillo in Bloom – Arizona Blue Sky – Loud Whistling Bird – Beautiful Morning – God is Good – All the Time –
A whistle, loud and clear, broke my concentration. I looked up from the book I was reading to see which bird could produce such a piercing sound. I grabbed my phone and slowly approached the blooming ocotillo plant where this bird was perched. Other times I’ve tried … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Morning, Photos
Tagged Arizona Birds, Arizona sky, Blooming Ocotillo, Blue Sky, Breezes, Coffee, God is good, Loud Whistle, Ocotillo, photo, Piercing Sound, Reading, Sunshine, Whistler, Whistling Bird
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Five Hours Walking at the RV Show of All Shows – So Much to See – We Toured Many Coaches – Until the Right Moment Comes – We Will Continue Planning and Preparing –
This view shows a portion of the inside of the RV of our dreams. We drove more than an hour to get to the show. We had to ride a tram from the last parking lot to the massive area where hundreds … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir, Photos
Tagged Choice, Coach, Coaches on Display, Goal, Motor Home, New Friends, Outdoor Food Court, Recreational Vehicle, RV, RV Living, RV of our dreams, RV Show, Touring Motor Homes, Tram, Visiting Family
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Morning Walk – Early February in Arizona – Green Grass – Sunshine – and Shadow – Three Scenes that Caught My Attention – Three Photos –
Although a shadows is a reflection and not the real article, these seven trees outlined so clearly by the morning sunshine on the park grass held me in awe. Grass was the chosen landscape in all front and backyards in places I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Photos, Thought
Tagged Arizona, camera, February, February in Arizona, Fiery Sun, Green Grass, Landscape, Morning Sunshine, Morning Walk, park grass, Shadow, Stone cover, Summer, Tree Shadows, Winter
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Bichon Frise Chelsea Gets a New Do – Not Really – Same Classic Bichon Frizz We Love and Revere – She Wears It Well in Her Senior Years –
Chelsea’s groomer makes house calls. Karen drives a mobile pet grooming vehicle, comes to the door, carries Chelsea to the driveway, bathes her, and trims her bushy white fur. She returns Chelsea to our door about 45 minutes later all fluffy white … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Pets, Photos
Tagged Bichon Frise, Bichon Frizz, Bushy White Fur, Chelsea, Chelsea Bichon Frise, Clean, Driveway Grooming, Eating, Fluffy White, Mobile Pet Groomer, New Do, Pet Groomer, Sleeping, White Fur
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Orange Tree – Lemon Tree – Inverted White Bucket Hanging Like a Lampshade – and – What I Thought Was a Power Line or Pipe Extending Over the Orange Tree – Steve Explained Strange Objects while Carol Ann Sampled an Orange –
Coming originally from the northern part of the Midwest, I had never seen an orange or a lemon tree. Many years later in another chapter of my life I lived in Florida, and there were orange and lemon groves, but I didn’t have a fruit tree … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Photos, Thought
Tagged Bucket, Converted Garage Frame, Explanation, Golf Cage, Home Weather Station, Lemon Tree, Orange Tree, Pole, Practice Golf Shots, Ripe Oranges, Shelter, Strange Objects, Sweet Oranges
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NOT in the Mood to Cook Today – Pressed Onward with Purpose – Chicken and Corn Chowder – What to Do When You’re NOT in the Mood to Cook – Keep It Simple –
Do you ever feel that way? No cooking today! How did I manage other than going out to a restaurant, which, I confess, we do too often? First, I chose meat the oven could cook while I did something else. I stuck half a chicken in a baking … Continue reading
Reclaiming Earth around Old Stump – Revitalizing Existing Landscape Using Reclaimed Rock and Soil – Steve Is Busy Shifting Resources in Our Front Yard –
Here Steve sifts the dirt he has taken by force (using a pickax) from the roots of a palm tree stump. First plucking stems and tiny tree branches from the mix, he next presses what’s left through the strainer. Only small stones remain, … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Photos
Tagged Gardening, Landscape, Landscape redesign, Palm Tree Stump, Pickax, Revitalizing Landscape, Rock and Earth, Roots, Shifting Resources, Sifting earth, Stony Soil, Water, Weeds
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Stuff Happens – You May Lose Your Way – Don’t Be Discouraged – Don’t Be Dismayed –
Stuff happens – You may lose your way – Don’t be discouraged – Don’t be dismayed – Jesus on his dying day – Had you on His mind – He said, Forgive them – Father – they don’t Know what they do – It … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Photos, Poetry
Tagged Blood of Jesus, Carried our sins, Christ Jesus, Discouraged, Dismayed, Don't be discouraged, Jesus, Jesus Lives, Jesus Reigns, Lord Jesus, Pain, Promises, Ransom paid, Righteousness, Sickness
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Good Morning from Arizona – Colorful Sunrise –
Have a blessed day…
Posted in Memoir, Photos
Tagged Colorful Sunrise, Early Morning in Arizona, Sunrise in Arizona
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Trench Digging Continues – Weeds Weary Steve – Steve Fights Back with Weed Killer – No – I’m Not an Environmentalist – But I’m Sympathetic to the Cause – I’m Not Against All Herbicides – But I Can’t Think of Any I Like – We Have Reduced the Use of Weed Killers this Year –
Here is my trenching project for today. I finished it except for a small portion behind the plant hidden from the camera lens. Steve began spraying for weeds and I could smell it. He sprays directly on the root of the weed, … Continue reading
Trench Digging with a Hoe – Woe Is Me – I Was Reassigned from Bush Trimming to Trench Digging – Yes – We Have a Good Reason to Remove the Stones from Around the Plants –
Life as a bush trimmer was easy. I thought it was hard, but now I know better. I was reassigned to trench-digging with a hoe before I could try my hand at tree trimming. Steve sprays for weeds around the plants. He believes he … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Humor, Memoir, Photos
Tagged Arizona, Bush Trimming, Carol Ann Hoel, Gardening, Hoe, Killing Plants, Michigan, Moving Stones, Point of Hoe, Reassigned, Sonoran Desert, Trench, Trench-digging, Trimming Bushes, Weed Killer
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