If there’s one thing about this place you can count on, it’s that nobody goes hungry around here. You couldn’t, even if you tried. We all know that Miss Terry is an amazing cook and baker. In the 28+ years that we’ve been married, she’s never served me a bad meal. Not even a mediocre […]
Most of us have experienced it a time or two in our lives, some of us more often than others. I call it the spidey sense. That feeling that something just isn’t right, though we can’t figure out what is wrong or why we are feeling that way. I’ve learned to be aware and heed […]
I believe yesterday was the first Thanksgiving or Christmas we’ve spent with our daughter Tiffany and her family since we went on the road as fulltime RVers way back in 1999. It was long overdue. Tiffany told us it would be an informal gathering of family and friends, and though they wouldn’t eat until 5:30 […]
As fulltime RVers, we always enjoyed visiting new places, meeting new people, and being introduced to local customs and food. If you think BBQ is the same everywhere you go, you’ve never had it in Memphis and then in Texas. The same goes for everything from steaks to comfort food. It seemed like every place […]
I know that anybody who has ever had to move at one time or another in their life has asked themselves “where does all this stuff come from?” I remember that in our days as fulltime RVers we carried everything we owned in our motorhome. It was a minimalistic lifestyle, and we enjoyed it. Now […]
Terry and I were heartbroken to learn that our dear friend Ron Speidel passed away on Wednesday. He was an amazing man and one of the most intelligent people I have ever known. From RVing to anything mechanical, to history and life in general, Ron was a wealth of knowledge and he was always happy […]
When we were fulltime RVers traveling in our motorhome, we always preferred to get off the interstate highways and onto the two-lane roads whenever we could. As I have said many times, a Denny’s or a Pilot truck stop in Tucson looks pretty much just like one in Paducah or Toledo. All too often we […]
Note: I was still feeling the affects of Friday’s run-in with onions and didn’t do anything productive yesterday. So here is a blog from five years ago you might enjoy. I know, in this day and age we are not supposed to call people names. But sometimes you just have to. Comedian Bill Engvall made […]
Yesterday was another day spent on the go. After taking care of some things at home in the morning, we started out in the early afternoon by going to the post office to mail off a couple of items, including a book order. There were only two people ahead of me in line, so even […]
In a blog post a couple of days ago, I told you that I was going to be a guest on Tony and Peggy and Barthel’s Stressless Camping podcast. We met this fun and entertaining RV couple years ago, and I enjoyed visiting with them again for the podcast. We talked about my nonfiction travel […]
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 […]
Note: This is a repeat of a previous blog post that I thought was worth sharing again. As an author, and as someone who loves to read, I am constantly perplexed why anybody would not want to. And sometimes it’s depressing. All that time spent sitting in a classroom learning how to read, and so […]
It rained all of Monday night and most of yesterday, and we have pools of water in our backyard. But that didn’t keep us from getting a lot accomplished. At 9:30 yesterday morning, I got a call from Jay, the delivery driver from Thompson Gas, saying he was headed our way to deliver propane. He […]
Yesterday was another nice day here in west-central Alabama, with the temperature in the mid-70s. It was also a busy day for us here at our place. A little before 7:00 AM Danny Kelley arrived with a big truckload of gravel for the perimeter road. I had spent a lot of time the day before […]
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. Why did you pay the dealer for your tractor’s service […]
We live on a paved country road. Here are pictures of it in both directions taken from in front of our house to prove it. Most people reading this will say “So what? Doesn’t everybody?” Apparently not, and I guess in this part of Alabama at least, that matters to some folks even if I […]
As I wrote in a blog a few days ago, Terry and I both have bad backs, and before we hit the road as fulltime RVers long ago, there was nothing more relaxing than soaking in our hot tub at the end of the day, letting the jets massage our aches and pains away. We […]
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 […]
When we left our home in Show Low, Arizona to become fulltime RVers back in 1999, there were many changes in our lives, and while we had to give up some things to live our dream, the tradeoff was well worth it. If there was one thing we both missed most of all it would […]
Note: This is a repost of a story from our days as fulltime RVers. Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. has a long and interesting history. Most of us know it as the place where President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14th, 1865, as the president and his wife attended a […]