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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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- 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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- 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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Sunrise at Van Horn RV Park in Van Horn, Texas – Small Town – Excellent Park – We Are Resting Here – Calm Blue Skies in the Morning – Motorhomes and Fifth Wheels and Campers Coming and Going Each Day – We Love It –
This is our third tour in our Motorhome. We started this one in mid-April calling it our 2018-2019 tour. It will end April 30, 2019, making this tour a few days longer than a year. (This is the plan subject … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir, Morning
Tagged Brown Texas Sand, campers, Carol Ann Hoel, Fifth Wheels, Home, Looking out my window, Motorhomes, Mountains, People like me, RV Park, Surroundings change, Texas, Van Horn
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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
Home – Where Life Happens – Beginnings – the Middle – And Endings – Memories Are Made at Home –
Home is where life happens. Family, pets, the good stuff we talked about with one another and the stuff we tried to forget, it mostly happened at home. The days we remember about the people we love we frame in … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Thought
Tagged Believing, days we remember, Family, Forget, Home, Hope, Laughter, Life Happens, Memories, people we love, Pets, Silly stuff, stuff we tried to forget, times we cried, Together again
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Standing at the Threshold – Resisting the Force Pulling Me Back –
Standing at the threshold – Knowing I’ll never return – Hesitating – Wishing To know if I really want To go – Standing at the threshold – Thinking I should Turn around and run The other way – but I … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Poetry
Tagged Carol Ann Hoel, Excitement, Force, Forward, Free, Holding back, Home, Pulling me back, Resisting, Threshhold, Time runs out, Unknown, Unknown path, Wind, Wind at my back
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Visiting Our Japanese Friend – a Learning Adventure
Yesterday, after church, we were invited to a dinner prepared by our Japanese friend, Mari. She and her husband, Dave, entertained us in their attractive home, decorated in the simplicity of Mari’s homeland tradition. We removed our shoes at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, antique, antique china, Beer, Ceramics, china, china collection, collection, curry, dessert bowls, Dinner, distinctive, everyday Japanese fare, friend, guests, Home, Japan, Japanese, Japanese beer, Japanese curry, Japanese dinner, Japanese food, Japanese friend, Japanese tradition, Learning, Learning Adventure, Pieces, place settings, removed shoes, settings, shoes, Simplicity, tradition, unique, unique identity, Visit
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A Thankful Heart
God bless the people that bless others I thank God for help I’ve received I’ve given some and received a lot From people that care From those who dare To open their hearts Their homes and resources Who’ve shown me … Continue reading
Wandering (revised :)
Wilderness No way out Traveling Searching So long Alone Thought I found A home But no Still alone but for Carrying them My own To care for To feed And clothe My own Thought I knew The way But no … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Alone, Home, Jesus, Journey, Lost, Searching, Travel, Wilderness
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God’s Plan
One plan For His purpose (God knew all along My plan would fail) God has His plan That will not fail I will watch And Wait and Marvel as He works His plan for His purpose For He promises This … Continue reading
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