As I sit in the trailer in Arizona, listening to Kevin learn to play the hymn, “For All the Saints” on our new portable Yamaha keyboard, I am smiling. Hearing him play the piano summons so many positive memories of our life together. I recall my desire twenty years ago that Kevin should have a […]
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Harvest Hosts
We have had many types of campsites on our trips–and many more to come–RV resorts, parks, casino parking lots, state parks, backcountry dry-camping, national forests, etc. We had a unique camping experience at Landry Vineyards in W. Monroe, Louisiana, courtesy of an organization called Harvest Hosts. Kevin and I paid $44 for a year’s membership […]
Learning to Be
It has not been my intention to go two and a half weeks without a blog post. Nor was it our intention to stay in Tennessee for a month, but when we left on Nov. 30th, we found ourselves having spent 29 days there. When we began our trip on Nov 1, we guessed we’d […]
Cares Drop Off Like Autumn Leaves
Photos from our stay at Meriwether Lewis Campground “Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” —John Muir, Our National Parks
A Bad Day Camping Beats a Good Day Working
As we were preparing to leave the campground in Goodlettsville, Kevin received a call from his dermatologist’s office in Indiana. The pathology report for the skin cancer he had removed on Nov 1, the day we left on our trip, came back after 14 days. We had been lulled by two weeks of silence into […]
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