My husband, Quent, and I are currently on a 2-week RV road trip from Colorado to Texas to view the April 8 total solar eclipse. We planned this trip months ago — a carefully detailed itinerary to ensure we had campgrounds to stay at (and dear friends to stay with!) when hundreds of thousands of […]
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Quent and I continue to try to figure out where we might want to winter for months at a time — hoping to find our perfect warm place to avoid Colorado winters in the future. We sampled Thailand for nearly four weeks this fall (too far — as much as Quent loved the heat and […]
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I referenced my pending ankle ligament surgery in my last couple travel-related posts. Well, I had the surgery yesterday at Aspen Valley Hospital; I’m back home recovering; and there’s no immediate travel in my future, thanks to the biggest, fattest cast ever and no weight-bearing on my right leg for at least a month. Good […]
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As Quent and I continue our quest to figure out a warm-weather destination where we’d like to land for several weeks or a couple months in order to spend as little time in snow for the rest of our lives, I won’t bury the lede: San Pancho is absolutely a contender. With some caveats. San […]
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I’m drafting this blog post while seated outdoors at a café in Sayulita, Mexico, an oceanfront town about 25 miles northwest of Puerto Vallarta. I’m sipping my café americano, and I’m about to dig into my egg white/spinach/avocado/feta on an English muffin. All the other patrons are speaking English — a young couple just walked […]
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Over the past couple weeks, we’ve traveled from New Hampshire to Virginia, visiting my childhood state, several new-to-us-destinations, and — the best part — meeting up with dear friends and family along the way. Here are just a few of the highlights. Bear Brook State Park, New Hampshire We spent two nights at Bear Brook […]
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It’s no secret I’m really enjoying traveling for weeks on end in our motorhome. I’ve gone on and on about why I dig it so much… and how much fun we’re having seeing parts of the country we’ve never been to before. But it’s not all fun all the time. Traveling by RV isn’t easy. […]
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As Quent and I sat on the upper outside deck of the ferry returning us to St. Ignace, Michigan, from Mackinac Island, I breathed a contented sigh of relief. I’d planned three key Midwest sightseeing adventures to kick off our 7-week RV road trip (after spending a long weekend with friends in Buena Vista, Colorado), […]
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