Sitting around 30 June and thinking about “stuff.” Working on the house (sort of). Not much that can be done since we are STILL awaiting our building permit. It has been over a year now since that process started. You would think we were building a skyscraper. Full of Gun Dealers, Gentlemen’s Clubs and marijuana
Category: Travel
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What our Travel-Life Will Look Like?
We spent several days returning to Chicago. Not directly. And staying in all sorts of places. I think this is a preview of our life on the road. Now some of the color and nuance. Our route was altered to take us home via Pittsburgh and visits with friends the Hendrys, McDowells and Lanes. Not
Our first Rally
Our destination on this trip was the “Wanderlodge Owner’s Group” (WOG) Rally in Pine Mountain Georgia. This is definitely FUN. Meeting nice people. Seeing all manner of coaches from older and much more ragged than ours to gleaming hot rods.(There were 125 coaches here!) The people are great with technical advice and ideas. For example,
Road Trip #1 Part 2 (Revelations)
We have traveled as far as Frankfort Kentucky. It is here we learned an apparently immutable law of the universe: Here is our evidence; see if you agree. Last spring, we watched Blackhawks Playoff Hockey at BWW in Seymore Indiana. It was the only place we could find that had the NHL package (hockey not
Oooops. Every trip has one (Apparently)
OOOOppps. Clearly, every trip is gonna have one. Sometimes it may relate to the bus itself. Sometimes to the accoutrements. On this particular sojourn, a couple already. Ooops #1. The VERY FIRST toll booth (on the Chicago Skyway) would not accept our iPass. Stuck. Truck behind. Barricade ahead. “Help” button returns “All agents are serving
ROAD TRIP (for real!!!!)
Liz and I are embarking on what we consider to be our very first “Road Trip.” How do we define that? Well, remembering the 4 Retirement Rules that guide us, we have plotted out the following (being careful to not let ANY of that rise to the level of a PLAN or a SCHEDULE). We
Go EAST young man. Near Sandusky, Ohio
Our trip was intended to be short…to see what else we could break — and then hopefully fix. Just to a State Park near Sandusky Ohio, to meet our good friends the McDowells. The trip did not start well. Even BEFORE we started the bus. In fact, even before we went to get the bus.
Cozumel, 2015
As has become traditional, we book a “Last Minute Deal” to a warm place for our anniversary. This year, the destination was Cozumel, Mexico. While in Cozumel, we spent a lot of quality beach time. We also did more than a little diving. Most of the reefs and dive spots were very close to
This was our first “Retired” Road trip. We left Chicago on 25 January, headed South-by-southeast. Plans were to stop in Atlanta, to visit Liz’s Brother and family. Then continue on to Bradenton, FLA, where some friends had a condo rented for a week. The above was a loose guideline, only. We considered this trip to
Washington D.C.
We visited Washington D.C. to help my Great-Aunt Marilee move. This was a somewhat “forced” situation as her Retirement Community was closing for construction. Management offered to pickup all the costs for her move to another of their buildings, where they prepared a similar combination of two units. Inasmuch as Marilee is 102 years young,