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 October 24, 2021

Home Again: From The Mountains To The Bay

We arrived home on Wednesday afternoon, after two-and-a-half months in the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia. This was our first trip out since the pandemic stranded us in Florida in March 2020. Heading to the mountains was the perfect choice for our reentry into travel. It was relaxing, filled with adventures, and a great […]

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Categories : Adventures With The Kitty, Musings, Reality RV
Tags : coming home, Full time travel, part time travel
 July 29, 2021

Getting Ready To Travel: Excitement And Anxiety In Equal Measure

It has been exactly 18 months since we rolled down the driveway here in Eastpoint, Florida to deal with rooting out my parents’ home. Little did we know when we unhitched the trailer that we would be here more than a year-and-a-half later. We’re busily preparing for our first trip after this very long pause, […]

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Categories : Florida, Reality RV
Tags : Preparing for RV travel, traveling with a cat
 March 12, 2021

A Year Of Staying Put: And A Big Decision

At this time last year, we were finishing up our two-month project of clearing out my parents’ home and preparing it for sale. And we were happily anticipating resuming our travels. Instead, we’ve been stranded in Florida for more than a year. After much (exhausting) discussion, we’ve decided to stay here for a while longer. […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings, Reality RV
Tags : pausing our fulltime travels, traveling fulltime
 February 25, 2021

It Followed Me Home

When Eric and I contemplated taking to the road full-time eight years ago, we had a cat. Spot was eighteen years old, highly opinionated, and her only outings in a vehicle had been visits to the vet. Much to our surprise, Spot adapted extremely well to traveling life. But when she passed away a year-and-a-half […]

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Categories : Adventures With The Kitty, Florida, Musings, Reality RV
 August 31, 2020

Digging Out Of Overwhelm

I‘ve had big plans of writing about our last summer’s adventures for many months now. But life keeps getting in the way. Every day, I look at an index card propped up by my computer. It says, “How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives. ~Annie Dillard.” As I push […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings, Reality RV
 July 19, 2020

Sweltering In Place

Thank you, dear friends, for your great kindness in the loving and supportive comments you left in honor of my dad. During this time when we’ve not been able to gather with family and friends to celebrate my dad’s life and mourn his passing, your words have brought me comfort and lifted my spirits. I […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings, Reality RV
 April 11, 2020

Surviving A Pandemic

Never in a million years did I think I would be writing a blog post about surviving a pandemic. But here we are. And although I’m an optimist by nature (and determination), I fear that we’re in for a long ride. We’re one week into our stay-at-home orders in Florida, but we started our own […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings, Reality RV
 April 3, 2020

Living In The Unknown

This morning, my first thought upon awakening was, “Wow, THAT was a wild nightmare.” And then I remembered that this is reality—the world, as we know it, has essentially come to a standstill. The Best Laid Plans… If all had gone according to plan, we would have been on the road last week. We would […]

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Categories : Aging Parents, Florida, Musings, Reality RV
 November 25, 2019

Travel Burnout, And A Taste Of The Adirondacks: NY

We knew from the outset that we were only going to get a glimpse of the Adirondacks. This enormous swath of wilderness covers more than 9000 square miles, from the center of New York state to the Canadian border. More of an issue, though, is that we abruptly hit ‘travel burnout’ at the beginning of […]

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Categories : Musings, New York, Reality RV, Travel
Tags : fulltime travel burnout, North Pole Resorts, travel burnout
 October 3, 2019

Reality RV: Hard Times And Trying To Stay Sane

I‘ve been trying to write a blog post for the past several weeks, and I’m having a hard time. Our blog is mired in the Finger Lakes and we’re now in Maine, after a fabulous summer in the Maritimes. Meanwhile, my mind is running wild and I’m having difficulties reeling it in. This has been […]

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Categories : Aging Parents, Musings, Reality RV
Tags : Alzheimers, challenges of elderly parents, elderly parents
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