The predicted cold front arrived yesterday, right on schedule, and I spent the day working on the new issue of the Gypsy Journal. Except for a couple of last minute details, it’s finished, and I’ll be uploading it to our printer’s web server later today. They’ll go through it again to check for any problems […]
We had a great time yesterday, but I sure am sore this morning! Yesterday Terry and I, along with Ron and Brenda Speidel, floated the St. Joseph River from Mottville, Michigan to Bristol, Indiana, a distance of about 7 or 8 miles on the water. I said float, but the water was so calm that […]
Sometime early Monday morning the sky above us broke open and rain began to pour down on northern Indiana in torrential amounts. One news report said that four inches of rain fell before 6 a.m. and then it was averaging an inch an hour for the rest of the morning. The roads here in Elkhart […]
My cousin Terry Cook is very active in Scouting, so when he told me that a specially decorated RV is traveling the country to celebrate the Boy Scout’s 100 year anniversary in 2010, and that it would be in Traverse City yesterday, I accepted his invitation to go check it out. The 32 foot long […]
Yesterday was one of those days where it didn’t seem to me that we were all that busy, but looking back, I guess we were! In the morning I printed off several of our booklets to fill orders that came in with our last mail delivery, which was waiting for us when we returned here […]
Muskegon, Michigan is located on the shore of mighty Lake Michigan, and the city’s history and personality were greatly influenced by its maritime heritage. Even though it is not as busy at it once was, the waterfront is still a busy place, though these days the pleasure boats far outnumber the working vessels. In addition […]
With summer in full swing, and gas prices way down from this time last year, a lot of RVs are on the go. We’re expecting a full house here at Elkhart Campground next weekend for the 4th of July holiday. As fulltimers, we learned early on that campgrounds fill up fast on holiday weekends during […]