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 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 […]

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Categories : 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 : 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 : Musings, Reality RV
Tags : Alzheimers, challenges of elderly parents, elderly parents
 April 2, 2019

Finding Calm In The Midst Of Chaos

We left Florida yesterday, after two months that have seemed both brief and interminable. This has not been an easy visit. My parents have lost ground since we were here last year, both physically and mentally. It is a gift of our fulltime travels that we’re able to spend a chunk of time with them […]

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Categories : Musings, Reality RV
Tags : caring for elderly parents
 November 21, 2018

Leaving Home Never Gets Easier

We’ve been fulltime travelers for five-and-a-half years now. Every year, we circle back to our hometown in southern Oregon for a few weeks to ready ourselves for another year of travel. No matter how organized we think we are, it’s always a tornado of activity: various appointments, projects on our trailer, maintenance on our home, […]

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Categories : Musings, Reality RV
 March 27, 2018

When Life Gets In The Way Of Blogging

I’ve had a post on Big Bend National Park almost finished for about two weeks. Meanwhile, I’m more than two months behind on our blog. I don’t like being so far behind. But the past couple of months, life has taken precedence over blogging. We’ve been in Florida since the first of February and just […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings, Reality RV
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