In over 18 years of fulltime RVing, not to mention our travels away from the RV lifestyle, we have been to so many interesting places. Historic cities, battlefields, mountains, deserts, and seashores. And we have found that one of the best ways to get an overview of a place is by taking a trolley tour. […]
My love affair with motorcycles started when I was a teenager. I bought my first bike, a 1967 Triumph Bonneville T120 with a 650cc engine, with money I earned mowing lawns and shoveling snow. A year or so later I bought a 750cc Norton Commando. I rode both of those motorcycles everywhere I could until […]
Here’s another tale from the Nick Happens file, a collection of true stories about my adventures and misadventures over the years. We all know you can save a lot of money by doing your own vehicle maintenance and simple repairs. I even suggest it in my book The Frugal RVer. The problem is that there […]
We checked out of the La Quinta hotel in Mesa about 10:30 yesterday morning and drove to Terry’s parents’ house and spent a couple of hours with them. It’s always hard to say goodbye, but we left them with assurances that we would be back before too long. That’s better than during our fulltime RVing […]
I don’t think any of us got much sleep Saturday night even though we were exhausted from everything that had happened the day before. But that didn’t stop us from being up early Sunday morning, although not as early as Kenny and Tiffany. They showed up at our room bringing coffee, orange juice, and something […]
Thank you to everybody who left positive comments on the blog and on Facebook about the news of our upcoming move back home to Arizona. Even with the help of a professional company to do the packing and loading of the truck, it’s still going to be a big job. We have been busy sorting […]
Anyone who knows Terry or has been reading the blog for very long at all knows that she loves to cook, and she can put any of those fancy TV chefs to shame with the things she whips up in our kitchen. The other day she made some delicious oatmeal, raisin, chocolate chip, pecan cookies […]
We sure have been eating good around our place the last week or so, thanks to Miss Terry’s many culinary talents. One day she made amazing garlic parmesan chicken over linguine that was so good I told her I wanted it for every meal of the rest of my life. Of course, she knew I […]
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 […]
In a blog a few days ago I said that we were thinking about getting a B van RV and were going to look at some. I looked at a lot of them online and did quite a bit of research and had narrowed it down to a Winnebago Travato or an Airstream Interstate. And […]
We started yesterday with some delicious French toast made from the French bread that Terry baked a few days ago. Yummy. 😊 Then I spent some time answering e-mails, including one from a recently widowed woman who had attended some of our classes when we were teaching at Life on Wheels. She wanted to thank […]
Did you ever hear somebody say something, and for a moment all you can do is stare at them and wonder who ties their shoes for them in the morning? I’ve been on both sides of that conversation, and trust me, sometimes I’ve had to wonder who ties my shoes for me in the morning. […]
Note: This is a repost of a blog from 2019 about places we want to visit again from our days as fulltime RVers. We may have hung up the keys but we still get hitch itch and we’ve got a lot of traveling left to do. In 18+ years of fulltiming we saw a lot […]
In yesterday’s blog, I said we were going to have a busy day, and I was right. We were on the go nonstop from the time we left the house until we got back after 8 PM. Our first stop was at the post office in Gordo to send off a couple of things, including […]
Terry has gardening fever, and I blame it on our son Travis. I’ve told you before that Travis is an avid and successful gardener, and ever since we first looked at our property here in Alabama he’s been telling us about all the options we have for growing vegetables. That’s something Terry has always wanted […]
When I mentioned in my blog a few weeks ago that we were going to be making a major change in our lives, I didn’t want to jinx the deal by telling everybody what was happening until we were sure everything was going to go through and we would actually close on our house in […]
So what do you do when you are 70 years old, own your house in Florida free and clear, and have almost no debt? If you are myself and Terry, you buy another home in Alabama and move there! I’ll be honest with you, when we bought our place here on the Intracoastal Waterway, we […]
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 […]
While overall, RVing is one of the safest lifestyles there is, we must always keep in mind that no place is ever 100% safe. A man killed two people, held a woman prisoner and sexually abused her for several hours at the Orlando Thousand Trails Wednesday, before being captured a few miles away, after she […]
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. Do you sometimes dream about your characters? And if you […]