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 […]
Bruce Breslow banters with his audience as he casually waves a pair of colored glass rods through the 1400 degree flame of a propane heater until the glass begins to melt, then allows it to drool into a graphite mold. With a couple of deft spins of the rods, he creates a swirl effect, then works […]
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 received two amazing gifts in one package yesterday. Our dear friend Lynn Throckmorton from Hemet, California, is an accomplished artist, and she sent us two of her beautiful paintings. The first is titled January 6, 2021 and expresses Lynn’s (and our own) deep feelings about the attack on the Capitol as the results of […]
You have to want to visit Core Sound, because it’s not an easy place to get to, and few people stumble upon it by accident. Locals say that the region begins where most folks’ geographic knowledge of North Carolina ends: – beyond Morehead City, beyond Beaufort, and on to the far side of the North […]
A blog about a visit to Mystic Seaport in Connecticut from our days as fulltime RVers. If you haven’t been to Mystic Seaport, it is a living history museum consisting of a village, ships, and seventeen acres of exhibits depicting coastal life in New England in the 19th Century. It has what I consider to […]
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 […]
As soon as we hit the road as fulltime RVers, people began telling us about North Dakota’s Enchanted Highway, a 32 mile long stretch of two lane road between Interstate 94 and the little hamlet of Regent, to the south. The Enchanted Highway’s claim to fame is the series of giant whimsical metal sculptures that artist Gary Greff built […]
Tucked away on a side street near the Kentucky State Capitol building in Frankfort, I discovered the delightful Capital City Museum, which tells the story of the City of Frankfort from its earliest days as a frontier settlement to today’s position as the State Capital. (And by the way, trying to figure out which word […]
Note: Note: This is a repost of a blog from our fulltime RVing days When people think of World War II, most see images of European battlefields or the blood drenched sand of some South Pacific atoll. But the conflict was truly a World War, touching every corner of the globe and every community in […]
Note: This is a repost of a blog from April, 2017. Motorcycles. Some people love them and some people hate them. If you’re one of those who enjoys the thrill of travel on two wheels and the wind in your hair, you know a special kind of joy and freedom those who confine themselves to […]
Note: This is a blog about a fascinating museum we discovered in our travels as fulltime RVers. We’re always looking for interesting places to visit and share with our readers, and we’ve found many wonderful and fascinating attractions while we’ve been poking around in every corner of America. But we’re always surprised at how many […]
Note: It’s that time of year and it won’t be long before people are posting pictures of the Fall colors wherever they are. I thought I’d get a head start with a repost of a 2011 blog from our travels as fulltime RVers. We left Walnut Meadow campground in Berea, Kentucky a little after 9 […]
Note: We were on the go all day yesterday grocery shopping and taking care of some things, so I didn’t have time to write a blog. So here is a re-post of a blog about our tour of the Winnebago factory in Forest City, Iowa from a few years ago. Yesterday was a horrible day […]
I’m back with more questions from blog readers about RVing, 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 subscribed to your Gypsy Journal until you quit and trust your recommendations. […]
Note: This is a repost of a blog from our travels on the Oregon coast, one of our favorite places in the country. We had made arrangements to tour Fort Clatsop, where the Lewis and Clark Expedition spent a cold, wet winter after arriving on the Oregon coast at the end of their epic journey […]
Note: We find some of our best stories wandering around in old cemeteries. This one began with a visit to the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Animal mascots have been an important part of military life for centuries. Mascots became symbols of loyalty and courage and provided lonesome soldiers far from home something to care […]
Note: We were tied up on a project all day yesterday, then had guests for dinner, so there was no time for writing. This is a repost of a blog from 2016 because I still think laughter is the best medicine. They say that laughter is the best medicine. If that’s true, I’m pretty sure […]
I’m back with more questions from blog readers about RVing, 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. When you got your rabies shots that you wrote about in yesterday’s blog, […]
Note: This is a repost of a story from 2009, and prices quoted are from that time period. For years we have heard about the amazing bargains to be found at the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama. Founded in 1970 by Doyle and Sue Owens as a part time business, the store sells unclaimed […]