We were up early yesterday morning, getting ready for our 130 mile trip to North River Campground near Shawboro, North Carolina. I was glad I remembered to turn on our engine heater because it had gotten down into the low 50s overnight and was a chilly morning. By the time we did our routine morning […]
It’s hard to believe that our three weeks here at the Chesapeake Bay Thousand Trails preserve is over already. Where did the time go? Oh, that’s right, it went by fast while we were playing tourist and exploring all of the places to see and do in this area of southeast Virginia. Being a mystery […]
Congratulations to Bryan Carbonnell, this week’s winner of the Gypsy Journal drawing for an audiobook of the Journals of Jacob and Hyde by my friend Randall Morris. Stay tuned, because a new contest starts soon! When we checked in here at the Chesapeake Bay Thousand Trails a week ago the ranger had warned us that […]
An idling diesel engine woke me up about 7 yesterday morning, and though I tried to roll over and get back to sleep it kept running for a long time before finally pulling out. I guess the guy owns stock in an oil company and didn’t mind sitting there burning up money. We got up […]
Everybody says it’s going to be a long, cold winter, and I believe that might be true. It got down into the 50s Saturday night and I was grateful for the blanket Terry draped across the foot of the bed. It wasn’t long before it got pulled all the way up! It was another day […]
We set out from Harbor View Campground about 10 AM and drove about 65 miles south to the Chesapeake Bay Thousand Trails preserve near Gloucester, Virginia to introduce Greg and Jan to one of our favorite campgrounds in this part of the country. We stayed there a couple of years ago and really liked it, […]
We planned to go play tourist with Greg and Jan yesterday and had agreed to leave Harbor View Campground at 10 AM. But it started raining sometime in the wee hours of the morning and it really came down for two or three hours. When the alarm went off a little before 8 AM it […]