One Year on the Road

Ever since we first started this trip last spring, people have asked us, “What are you going to do at Christmas?” We’ve never had a Christmas without family – first trekking back to Missouri to reunite with my mom and…

We planned on spending most of the winter in Florida, and we were warned to get reservations early. Our Thousand Trails membership allows us to stay up to two weeks in a park, then we have to be out for…

It just so happens that Kate and I are personal friends with Santa Claus, and when he saw on my blog that we were headed to Florida, he emailed me to let me know he would be in Orlando for…

We’d heard from a few people that if we were near Orlando, we should check out Winter Park. So one late afternoon we drove over from our RV park, and we were delighted by it. In a sea of theme…

After New Orleans and Panacea, we had to bring Bessie back to Camping World for a few of the repairs on our list. We stayed in the Lake City Walmart parking lot, which was a wild and happening place. There…

My family moved from Iowa to Tallahassee in 1967, when I was almost 13. That was a tumultuous time to move to the South, and as a liberal-raised Yankee, I never could really fit in. There were still “White Only”…

When we were camping in the Savannah Visitor’s Center parking lot a few weeks ago, I started up a conversation with another camper who was walking her very cute Portuguese water dog. Barbara Ann and her husband, William, were there…