Bill and Suzanne's life on the road
At the time we bought our RV in November 2016, I thought we’d done enough research to have a good feel for what an RV and RV life is all about. It turns out that not only did we know very little, but we’re still rookies and still learning and making rookie mistakes. However, that is part of the adventure and the fun. Anyway, here’s a few things we learned:…
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On January 25th, 2018 my father passed away at 87 years old. My dad was many things: husband, friend, teacher, intellectual of sorts, fisherman, sports spectator, camper, but most of all he was a father and grandfather. The things that I treasured the most was his love of family and his sense of humor. My Dad loved having any of us around and would drive any distance to see us. …
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It was 13°F this morning of January 17th, 2018 in our RV in Dallas, Texas. We managed to avoid both freezing to death and frozen water pipes. Although it took a trip to Lowes yesterday to get some materials for insulation, it was not an imposition – we saw a good movie and the Cabernet was still at the proper temperature last night. In some respects the past 24 hours…
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We spent 9 days in Charleston at the beginning of December prior to our journey back north for the holidays. We intended, and largely succeeded, to catch a bit of “Charleston Christmas glow” in the form of theatre, light shows, parades, and shopping. The Black Fedora Comedy Mystery Theatre put on a Santa Claus mystery entitled “Kris Kross”. There were only 4 actors and no stage. They took “volunteers”…
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This week was a potpourri of pursuits and included our 1st extended stay at bad campground. We parked ourselves in Lothian, MD because it was centrally located between Annapolis, central Washington DC, and Mount Vernon. We spent a lot of time in the car – the lesson learned was to limit the physical circumference of your activities to have reasonable drive times, especially where the traffic is really heavy. The…
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Our week in Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown was a busy tour-filled week steeped in history and politics of the late 17th and 18th century. We spent 3 entire days in Colonial Williamsburg and could have spent more. My teenage memory of CW did not prepare me for the impressive restoration of the town all done in authentic construction of the period. We attended multiple re-enactments of discussions between the…
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In the past couple of months we’ve been fortunate to visit with friends that go back more than 35 years. We stayed just outside New Freedom PA in October to see Robyn and Dave Barone. In November we camped near Wake Forest, NC to see Laurie and Marv Baker. In our retirement, one of the things we planned to do is get together with very good friends whom we haven’t…
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We spent a week at the Endless Caverns RV park about a half hour drive from Shenandoah National Park in late October. The primary intent of this stop was to tour and hike the park. It ended up as a bit more than that as Jessie, Damon, and the kids joined us for the Halloween weekend. So far we’ve found each of the National Parks we visited to be unique…
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When Suzanne for was very young she read the book “Misty” which was centered on the wild ponies of Chincoteague. When we started planning our “Chesapeake Fall”, she wanted to visit it. Chincoteague is actually an island on the Atlantic cost due east from Richmond, VA. Also, the Chincoteague Ponies actually live on Assateague Island which is next to Chincoteague. The most exciting apart of getting there is a trip…
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It took about a week to get our RV out of mothballs and get it organized before we left the Islands on September 7th for Maine. This trip had four notable destinations: Boothbay, Maine, Acadia National Park, Boston, and Connecticut. We hadn’t been to Maine and wanted to hit it in good weather. We met up with my cousin Mary Evanofski and her husband Connie in Boothbay. They bought a…
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