Note: I am on the road this weekend, so here is a repost of a blog from our days of fulltime RVing. Even if we weren’t publishing the Gypsy Journal, Miss Terry and I would still be running around the country visiting all of those little out-of-the-way places, small town museums, and historical sites that […]
Since I wrote about the Gettysburg Women’s Memorial in yesterday’s blog, I thought today I would post an old blog about a visit to Gettysburg back in our days as full-time RVers. We toured the battlefield during our previous visit a few years ago, so yesterday we spent several hours at the Visitor Center at […]
We live in the largest Ponderosa Pine forest in the world. It covers 2.6 million acres, from the New Mexico state line to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. It is home to elk, mule deer, antelope, bear, and mountain lions. I have mentioned before that for weeks now we have heard elk bugling […]
You just never know what you’re going to find when you get off the interstate highway and look around a bit. We have found everything from historical sites to the graves of famous people, to oddball attractions we never knew existed, with just a little exploring. In Port Orange, Florida we discovered the Sugar Mill […]
A few miles north of San Simeon, on the central California coast, we stopped to visit the Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery, where we saw dozens of Northern Elephant Seals lounging on the beach. At one time hunted to the brink of extinction for their rich blubber, there were fewer than 100 of these huge […]
When I was a youngster I had a couple of uncles who were volunteer firemen. Sometimes we would go down to the fire station and they would let me put on a big fireman’s helmet and climb on the fire trucks, but that was all I needed of that. I had a cousin who was […]
Four miles south of Cambria, California lies an often overlooked gem of the central coast, the tiny artist colony of Harmony. We first stopped at this charming little community on our honeymoon, back in 1998, and little has changed since then. But Harmony has seen a lot of changes over the years. The town of […]
Yesterday morning started with a phone call from our friend Wayne. Wayne and his special lady Anita are the folks who took down our two hay sheds, and also stripped all of the old wiring from the barn. A while back Anita got a couple of my books and said she really enjoyed them, so […]
Yesterday was a wet and dreary day here in Alabama, and I spent most of it at my computer, writing another 3,500 words in my next John Lee Quarrels novel. So I thought I would dust off an old blog from our days as fulltime RVers, when I taught some rude jerks a lesson. Years […]
Yesterday was a good day for a lot of reasons. And any one of them would have been enough to make me happy. One of the first things I did yesterday after feeding Alli and taking her out for her second potty of the day, was to load all of the deer fence material that […]
Note: Since all we have done the last few days is fill boxes in preparation for our move to Alabama, I thought I’d repost a blog about how far technology has come since we became fulltime RVers way back in 1999. No, we didn’t always have WiFi and cell phones that work as hotspots, and […]
Note: This is a repost from December, 2015 that I think is just as appropriate today. When people ask me how I come up with all the plots I use in my mystery novels, I tell them I’m not really all that creative, I just write down what the voices in my head tell me […]
I shared this story a few years ago, but a couple of readers have asked for it again. I have no idea what they intend to try to do from my example, but whatever it is, I don’t want to know. Okay, I know everybody deserves their fifteen minutes of fame. This is the story […]
Note: This is a repeat of a blog post from 2014 that is just as true today, and may burst someone’s bubble, but it’s something they need to understand about the fulltime RV lifestyle. I get a lot e-mails and letters to the editor and see posts online from people with limited funds who want […]
I think it was about a year ago that I was in love with a little red-haired girl named Linda who sat next to me in third grade. Six months ago, I was a young soldier home on leave from Army Basic Training and proud to show off my uniform and my National Defense Ribbon. […]
Note: Terry had her second cataract surgery yesterday, but just like the first time, two weeks ago, the schedule got pushed back, and we were there longer than expected. This morning we have to be back in Titusville early for her post-op follow-up, so today, I am reposting a blog from our days as fulltime […]
I’m back with more questions from blog readers about RVing, my writing activities, what’s happening in our lives since we hung up the keys, and all kinds of other things. While I try to answer all questions individually, I also share some here occasionally. Q. We purchased our first travel trailer in December and have […]
Note: Nothing new to share with you today, so here is a repost of a blog from our fulltime RVing days about a visit to an interesting Kansas town. Yesterday was yet another busy day for us. We were up early again because there were several things we wanted to do in Concordia before we […]
Aside from all of the pain and suffering, social isolation, and even divisions among family members and broken friendships that COVID-19 has forced upon us, one of the worst things for me has been the lack of physical contact. You see, I’m a hugger. I’ve always beena tactile person, and as I get older, I […]
Note: Here is another blog post from our days as fulltime RVers exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest. We spent yesterday exploring the picturesque and historic waterfront community of Port Townsend, Washington, at the very tip of the Olympic Peninsula. It’s one of our favorite towns in all of the Pacific Northwest. Settled in 1851, Port […]