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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 –
- Our Rocking Rolling 2018 Tour in Our Motorhome – Living Life – Like Everyone Else – Lots of Good Times – Some Trials and Tribulations – But in the End – It’s All Good – God is Good –
- 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 –
- 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 –
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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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Tag Archives: Motor Home
Quick Post – Out for Our Morning Walk with Chelsea – Thinking How Much We Have Enjoyed Our Stay Here – Our Farewell Is Drawing Near – Then Back Next Year –
Steve is on the sidewalk, Chelsea, too, but not visible. I am lagging behind taking the photo. We will return here each year to spend the winter seasons. We’ve lingered long enough to watch many RVers arrive and depart, which is quite a … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir, Morning
Tagged Arrival, Departure, Morning, Motor Home, Moving On, Quick Post, Return, RV, RVers, Travel, Walking Chelsea, Winter Season
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Walking Along the Canal Making Plans to Begin Our Journey – We Must Get Serious – I Should Be Booking Our Stops –
Walking Chelsea, our pet Bichon Frise, along the canal in the morning, we contemplated how we were going to begin our RV adventure. Which direction should we take, north to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and then to South Dakota, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Humor, Memoir
Tagged Adventure, Bichon Frise, Canal, Florida, Motor Home, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, RV, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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What If There Is Nothing to Do – What If There Is Too Much to Do – Life Is Full of Stuff to Do – Just Do It –
One issue that puzzled us as we planned to begin life on the road in a motor home was whether there would be enough to do in a day to keep us busy. It seems that finding enough time to fit in all … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged Awning, Busy, Ladder, Life on the Road, Motor Home, Nothing to Do, Shade, Strong Arms, Stuff to do, Tasks, Things to do, Too much to do
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Breakfast at Sunrise – We Do It Everyday – Early Risers – We Sip Coffee and Watch the Sun Rise in the Sky –
Hubby and I are up before daylight everyday. We enjoy being awake when the day breaks. We raise the shade that covers the window at the table in our motor home while darkness still lingers. By the time coffee brews … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Morning
Tagged Blessings, Breakfast, Coffee, Early Risers, English Muffins, Light, Morning, Motor Home, Resort Park, Sky, Sunlight, Sunrise
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Adjustments – Chelsea Rules – She Thinks – We Share – Where Have I Been – Good Question – Life Is Good but Never Without Challenges –
Ta da! This is my office space. It’s a much smaller area in our motor home than the room we shared as office space in our former stick-and-brick home. Steve uses the kitchen table when he works on his … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir, Pets
Tagged Bichon Frise, Carol Ann Hoel, Cellular Usage, Chelsea, Computer, Data Use, gigabytes, Hot Spot, Internet Connection, Motor Home, Office Space, Posting, RV, Sharing
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Camping on Site 73 for a While – Are We Having Fun Yet – Yes – Life Is What We Make It – Isn’t It – We Are Enjoying Special Moments as Life Goes On in its Ordinary Way –
Our motor home barely fits on Site 73, but here we are. I love the tree, probably a grapefruit or an orange tree, which Steve had to trim before we could open our door without branches hitting us in the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged Camping, Clothes Hamper, Coach, Combo, Dryer, Hamper, Having Fun, Laundry, Laundry Room, Motor Home, RV, Site 73, Space, Tree, Washer
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We Found a Coach – Itasca Ellipse Made by Winnebago – This Is Our New Home – Moving Has Begun Again – Are We Having Fun Yet- Uh – Almost –
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged Adventure, Bichon Frise, Carol Ann Hoel, Chelsea, Coach, Hauling boxes, having fun yet, Itasca Ellipse, Motor Home, Moving, packing, RV, Steve, unpacking, Winnebago
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Are We Having Fun Yet – ALMOST – Getting Online Has Been Difficult – Typing without My Right Hand Even More Difficult – Oh – Did I Mention that I Broke My Wrist – Notice the Blue Skies of South Dakota – America the Beautiful Shines in SD –
South Dakota was lovely and not cold when we arrived. The Black Hills peeked at us from the horizon shown in the background of this photo. We were in the Rapid City area about a week and will return sometime … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged America the Beautiful, Black Hills, Blue Skies, broken wrist, Carol Ann Hoel, Details, Having Fun, Injury, Motor Home, Pain meds, Slip and fall, South Dakota, Swelling
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Getting Up Close and Personal with my Laptop – Preparation for Posting on the Road – (The Fox Photo Is a National Geographic Wallpaper) –
Getting up close and personal with my laptop? Until recently I have never used my laptop computer on my lap. (My lap is up close and personal. Well, kinda.) I have always treated my laptop like a desktop PC. My laptop has … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged Auxiliary monitor, Change, Computers, desktop computer, Keyboard, laptop computer, Motor Home, Mouse, New Trick, Old dog, Posting on the road, Printer, RV, Speakers, Up Close and Personal
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Luxury Defined – Beauty – Convenience – New Appliances – Ample Living Space – Bath and a Half – All This in a Winnebago Journey Motor Home – Almost but Not Quite – Will Extreme Adventure Make the Difference for Us – We Think Yes –
Steve is a stickler on preparation. His idea to photograph every inch of storage space in our intended RV is helping us determine intelligently what to take along and where in the coach to store those articles we deem important. I would like … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged Adjustment, Adventure, Alone Time, Basement, Luxury, Motor Home, photo album, Photo Albums, RV, RV Lifestyle, Solitude, Stick-and-Stucco Home, Storage Space, Togetherness
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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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RV Planning Continues – Changes Were Bound to Happen – Not Looking for Fifth Wheel – Now It’s a Motor Home We Think We Need – But – Perplexing Matters Persist – Like – How to Fit in a Pool Table – And Chelsea Wants a Doggy Door –
Our dream for the future, our plan, our destiny has changed from a fifth wheel to a motor home. The authors of a book about RV living advise people to buy their third RV first. It seems people often purchase an RV and trade it in a … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Humor, Memoir
Tagged Changes in life, Destiny, doggy door, Dream, Fifth Wheel, Future, Motor Home, Plan, Planning, Pool Table, Recreational Vehicle, RV, RV Living, RVers
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Yellowstone Park – Anywhere USA – Prescott AZ (Photo) – Traveling as a Lifestyle – Does that Interest Anyone – We Are Thinking about It – Someday –
Have you ever thought of traveling as a lifestyle in a motor home or a five-wheel recreational vehicle (RV)? Some people do it after retirement. We know a few who have done it and enjoy it. Would we? We are … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir, Photos, Thought
Tagged Campground, Camping, Fifth Wheel RV, Lifestyle, Motor Home, Prescott AZ, Recreational Vehicle, Retirement, Roughing it, State Park, Tent, tent camping, Traveling, Yellowstone Park
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