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We transitioned from a sticks and bricks to an RV in 2012 and have been on the road ever since. Check out our full time RV lifestyle and follow along on our adventures in volunteering. Smartphone, iPad, Notebook users take note: This blog software limits the posts you can see to just the last few. If you want to see older posts you will need to access via a PC.

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September 22, 2013

Communications have gotten worse. We are headed for Flagstaff and the South Rim for a few days. Maybe we can get a stable connection while there and update the blog.

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Driving School and Good Eats

July 04, 2013

Its a good day to learn to back a trailer. Windy as usual, but a nice day. And for all of Cyndee's buddies back at the pre-school who just can't imagine Cyndee driving a truck with a trailer, well, check this out: But you say; "Aw, she is just sitting in the truck yard. Anybody can get their picture taken with it in park." Okay, then, how about a video of her showing off her new backing skills. Below is a video of backing the trailer in a straight line. It is hard to see her in the shadow of the cab but she is doing this skill using the side-mirrors only, not looking back over her shoulder. I have a video but Google is hosed up and won't load it. I'll keep trying for a few days. Check back later. 5 days later: Okay, I give up. Google just will not cooperate and let me have access to the page where I am supposed to "agree to terms & conditions". After a hard days training at truck driving my folks took...

Putting Down Roots for the Winter

March 13, 2024

October 2024 Okay, so the above pic is not our winter home, except in our dreams. However it (The Biltmore) is just a stones throw away from where we are setting up housekeeping. As planned, our departure from Dumplin Valley RV Park in Kodak, TN was early with only about an hour-and-a-half traveling time to our destination in Candler, NC, a western suburb of Asheville. But it wasn't quite as easy as it sounds. The last four miles was like running a gauntlet. As soon as we took the I-40 exit to Candler a four mile obstacle course began. The roads were just barely wide enough for two sedans to pass one another without taking a wheel off the edge of the pavement. But that would be ill advised as steep and deep trenches lined both sides of the road. Getting an eight foot wide and sixty foot long truck and trailer combination down these winding mountain roads was an altogether different drive. Many of the turns in the road required me to pull ...

May 05, 2024

Since October it has been hard to tell that we are full-time RV travelers. We dropped anchor at our daughter's family home and that's where we've been ever since. We're starting our sixth month without moving. But it's all going as planned. We sought to spend the winter with our grandkids in close proximity and that has been accomplished. And as luck would have it we had relatively easy access to replacement equipment our rig was in sore need of. Some of it we knew about, some we didn't. The first thing to crop up was a bad circuit board on our water heater. It was the "brains" of the water heater and we could not run on electric or propane, it was totally down for the count. Most places we have been it wouldn't have been a big deal but in our North Carolina location the well water coming to us was running at about 35 deg F. That's uncomfortable to wash hands in, let alone take a shower. I didn't waste any time in getting...