Category: Travel
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Goodbye, Xenon
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week we said goodbye to a good and faithful servant, our 2014 VW Passat TDI (diesel engine) who we named Xenon. She was the second diesel Passat we owned. In 2012 we bought a new one, silver, from the dealer in Springfield, Missouri. Randy was in love with the diesel… Read more
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Spring Break on Boca Grande
Reading Time: 5 minutes Michele (one of my best friends and my most consistent beach buddy) and I went to the beach on Friday. It’s early in the year and we haven’t been to the beach, one of our favorite places, for a while. Our normal beach of choice is the 9th Street beach access… Read more
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The Guest Test
Reading Time: 5 minutes When you live in Southwest Florida, weather wise, winter is the most magnificent time of the year. Someone once told us that there ARE two seasons in Florida, wet season and dry season. I contend that dry season could also be called guest season because dry season in Florida coincides with… Read more
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Is RVing Back?
Reading Time: < 1 minute OK, honestly, I don’t know for a fact that it ever left. But from our observations over the past few years, we surmised that while a lot of folks bought RVs at the beginning of the covid thing, as the thing wore on and many campgrounds closed, RVing became harder… Read more
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Snow! Why We Moved to Florida
Reading Time: < 1 minute My days are really messed up. It’s Friday and it crept up on me as surprisingly as Tuesday did this week. I need a reset. I was the last one out of bed this morning. I walked into Lynn’s garden room where everyone else was sitting in recliners admiring this… Read more
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More Manitowoc
Reading Time: 2 minutes For a city that’s never reached a population of even 35,000 people, Manitowoc sure has developed a world-wide reputation. If you missed my post on Tuesday about the Manitowoc Christmas connection, you can read that here. This week, on our way to Missouri, we checked into a hotel. Randy went to… Read more
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Check One Off the Bucket List
Reading Time: 5 minutes The bucket list cruise to the Panama Canal, so highly anticipated, is behind us. First, let me say that this 11-day cruise was very different, in a good way, from our first 4-day cruise experience in January 2023. You can read about that here. We liked the ship (Norwegian Joy) and… Read more
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Dance Like Nobody is Watching
Reading Time: 2 minutes How many of us are self-conscious when dancing? It’s one thing to get out on the dance floor and shuffle our feet, move our hips a little, sway to the beat, and twist and turn in place. But it’s quite another to get out there, pull out all the stops, get… Read more
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Retire Like a Millionaire
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last weekend my sister Lisa and I crashed the Lifestyle Visit my brother Denny and his wife Marlene made to The Villages in central Florida. Lisa and I have both lived in Florida for a while now and have, of course, heard about The Villages. Neither of us knew much about… Read more
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I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remember the old A-Team television show? Hannibal’s line at the end of each show was “I love it when a plan comes together.” I really enjoyed The A-Team for several reasons. First, way back when we lived in Sacramento we visited a Los Angeles theme park where there was an A-Team… Read more