Just a few days after my last post, I got a call from Texas. My Uncle James passed away. He and my father worked and lived together their entire lives, so he was like a second father to me. We drove to and from the funeral — a 3,600-mile round trip — in my little [...]
So, since I last updated, we’ve had a massive lightning storm, an earthquake, and a hurricane. We’ve come through them virtually unscathed. The lightning storm that hit us on Sunday, August 21 was scary, and I think it was responsible for killing our stereo. The surround sound system has a built in radio antenna which [...]
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As it would turn out, the very first winter we try fulltime RVing is Maryland’s worst winter on record. We have had not one, not two, but three — count ‘em, three — massive snowstorms in less than two months. In fact, we’re in the middle of storm #3 right now, and storm #2 was [...]
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Last night as I was falling asleep to the sound of the wind battering the outside of the RV with gusts of up to 50 mph, temperatures in the teens, and sub-zero windchill, my final conscious thought was, “I should leave a faucet dripping.” I promptly went off to the land of Winken, Blinken, and [...]
First snow of the season today, but it was mostly slush. As a result, the ground around my camper is nothing but mud. I went and bought a bale of straw and scattered it on outside my door so I wouldn’t track mud inside the house. I also bought some salt and put it down [...]
This has been a very wet fall. I don’t know exactly how many inches we’ve gotten, but I do know that we’ve had many more wet, gray days than not this month. Our RV is not sited on a concrete pad. Instead, we’re parked on grass. Admittedly, there is a thin layer of gravel under [...]
I was talking to a colleague of mine yesterday and explaining how Lex and I manage when we don’t feel like doing the same things at the same time here inside the fifth wheel. Well, we’ve come up with some inventive solutions to that problem, I think. There are distinct spaces in the RV, the [...]
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