Category: Travel
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The Guest Test
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen 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 winter… Read more
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Is RVing Back?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOK, 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 and… Read more
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Snow! Why We Moved to Florida
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy 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 view.… Read more
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More Manitowoc
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor 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 fill… Read more
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Check One Off the Bucket List
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe 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 the… Read more
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Dance Like Nobody is Watching
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow 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 out… Read more
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Retire Like a Millionaire
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast 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 it… Read more
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I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Reading Time: 4 minutesRemember 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 exhibit.… Read more
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Life is Damn Good
Reading Time: 2 minutesRandy and I arrived home today after being on the road for one day shy of 3 weeks. You know from my previous posts that we have, in the past, really loved road tripping. Yesterday, after a particularly brutal driving segment of the trip (Franklin, TN to Lake City, FL) Randy said… Read more
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Crazy Coincidences Leading to Utopia
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy brother Denny called me a few days before we arrived at my mom’s. He said he met a guy in Manitowoc who had a 77-foot (end to end) sailboat moored in front of the Cobia Submarine Maritime Museum on the river. He was walking along the riverfront one day the week… Read more