Friendships. Dave and I just returned from an amazing one week trip to Costa Rica (CR), only because our friends, Greg & Helen, who we met on our Great Loop adventure, invited us to join them at their Airbnb condo (they were staying in CR for 6 weeks). We felt comfortable leaving Murphy in Florida […]
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More fun in the Everglades! After leaving its northern boundary, we drove 3 1/2 hours south to get Flamingo Campground where one of the guides said “you’ve reached the end of the road”. And boy did we! It was 38 miles from the main Everglades visitor center near Homestead, FL to the Guy Bradley Visitor
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Although I have lived in Florida for over 30 years, I have never been to the Everglades. With our Mini-T in tow, Dave, Murphy, and I headed south. Our Mini-T is a smaller travel trailer we recently purchased for our trip to Alaska this year. We wanted to be more nimble in getting around Alaska
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I’ll share a bit later on my broken back recovery, but first for the big news. Drum roll… Dave and I just purchased another RV (yes another one). And no, we didn’t sell our luxurious (to us) 5th wheel. Why you ask? Are we going through some mid-retirement crisis? Well, the answer is more of
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Dave and I were blessed our first two years of traveling after retirement. First, our epic adventure completing the Great Loop and then last year’s RV adventure to the Canadian Maritimes and northeast United States. This year was just as memorable including a few “dips” along the way. Perhaps it was good our dips occurred
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Our six days of riding started out great. As I mentioned in last week’s blog, the ride was headquartered out of the gorgeous newly opened Lodge at Paris Landing State Park about 2 hours west of Nashville, TN. At BRAT, breakfast and dinner were provided, plus other activities including yoga and pontoon boat rides. Also
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After leaving the Grand Design National Rally near Elkhart, Indiana, Dave and I made our way to Paris Landing State Park in Tennessee. We had two overnight stays along the way. The first was a Grissom Air Museum in Peru, IN. Pretty cool to be parked right outside of lots of historic airplanes. The second
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What do 1,352 people camping in 640 Grand Design RVs at the Elkhart County Fairground do for a week? Attend the Grand Design National Rally (GDNR) and have a great time! Fairgrounds full of RVs; We are in the racetrack Fireside Chat with CEO Don Grand Design, the manufacturer of our 5th wheel, is a
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Dave and I arrived at Ohiopyle State Park in PA. Its 20,500 acres of rugged natural beauty includes the rushing water of the Youghiogheny (yawki-gay-nee) River gorge for whitewater enthusiasts. The park has over 75 miles of hiking trails and the Great Alleghany Passage (GAP) bike trail runs through the park. We were able to
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One of the goals Dave and I have since retiring is to visit as many national parks as we can. During the past week, we were able to check off Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Located just north of Akron, Ohio, CVNP boasts 125 miles of hiking trails, a section of the Ohio Erie towpath trail,
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