We were enjoying delicious soups after a morning of hiking and bracing the winds on a boat ride across Red Bay, Labrador when I asked the young server about the polar bear skin hanging on the wall. “They show up here sometimes. In fact, there was one here in April”, she tells us with a … Continue reading Jun 14, 2025 – Canada’s Home Away from Home
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Jun 11, 2025 On the Viking Trail
On our way The 7-hr ferry ride begins Leaving Nova Scotia Our first glimpse of Newfoundland. “You look like you could use this”, said our smiling campground neighbor as she handed me a piece of paper. It was her Starlink password, and she and her husband were heading out to do a little fishing for … Continue reading Jun 11, 2025 On the Viking Trail
Jun 8, 2025 – Ready for the Rock
I wonder what is in store for us here? "You're all set for the rock". That's what the campground host at Arm of Gold Campground told me after topping off our propane tank. "You're going to need it where you're going", he says as he drove off with his golf cart. He left me standing … Continue reading Jun 8, 2025 – Ready for the Rock
Jun 4, 2025 -Friends on the Way to Canada
Pulling into Colleton State Park in South Carolina, it would be another nine days before we saw the sun again. As the sun warmed me in the brisk 65-degree Maine temperature, I laughed at how it was not so long ago that I cursed the Florida heat and humidity. On our travels north, we have … Continue reading Jun 4, 2025 -Friends on the Way to Canada
May 20, 2025 – The Casita Adventures Begin!
While taking refuge from the heat in the air-conditioned Casita, it's difficult to imagine that in less than 3 weeks, we'll be above the 45th parallel ferrying our truck and trailer across the Gulf of St Lawrence to Newfoundland. A couple days after that, we'll be as far north as the 52nd parallel and as … Continue reading May 20, 2025 – The Casita Adventures Begin!
Apr 27, 2025 – Testing the Casita While Gathering Rosebuds
If you need to haul your Casita back home over 1000 miles, you may as well take your time and do a little sightseeing along the way. After pulling a 33’ fifth wheel around the country for seven years, the 17’ trailer would be a whole new experience for us. So, from Rice, Texas to … Continue reading Apr 27, 2025 – Testing the Casita While Gathering Rosebuds
Apr 13, 2025 – Meet our new Casita Trailer
Our fifth wheel has taken us all across this country and Canada for the past 7 years. And we’ve been through so much with our home on wheels. Paralysis by analysis - that describes mine and Vivian’s experience for the past 18 months. We compounded our inability to make a decision by information accumulation and … Continue reading Apr 13, 2025 – Meet our new Casita Trailer
Mar 10, 2025 – What We Value Most
"At its core, minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it." - author Joshua Becker. The RV lifestyle can be described as minimalism. When Vivian and I began living full time in an RV, we promoted the things we value most and … Continue reading Mar 10, 2025 – What We Value Most
Sep 13, 2024 – One River, Three States
There are people out there old enough to know what a broken record sounds like, so when I say that the RV is the best way to travel in this country, you know I'm sounding like a broken record. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times, there is no better way … Continue reading Sep 13, 2024 – One River, Three States
Jun 7, 2024 – Impressions of Vermont
Vivian has, but I have not been to New England. Yes, you heard that right – Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island – nope, nope, nope, nope, nope and nope. Not even Boston. I’ve been close; upstate New York and New York City, Baltimore and other parts of Maryland, somewhere in New … Continue reading Jun 7, 2024 – Impressions of Vermont
Changing Views From Our RV 