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How Audiobooks Got Me Back Into Reading

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Growing up, I was a voracious reader. Plowing through 5, 10, 20 books in one week was not at all unusual. If my family couldn’t find me, they knew to look in a closet….any closet. I had likely climbed into the dark closet with a book and a flashlight to escape the world. Unfortunately, sitting […]

Swimming With Manatees in Crystal River, Florida

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Disclosure: Swimming with manatees and visiting Crystal River, Florida was hosted by Discover Crystal River. As always, all opinions are my own.  Citrus County, Florida is the only place in the US that you can go swimming with manatees legally. When manatees became a protected species, it became illegal to interact with wild manatees. Citrus […]

Kayaking Down the Chassahowitzka In Citrus County, Florida

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Disclosure: Our kayak tour of the Chassahowitzka River was hosted by Discover Crystal River tourism board. As always, all opinions are my own.  Florida is one of those states where EVERYONE can name at least one place they know, have visited or want to visit. Often those visits include a mouse or a beach and […]

Life On the Road Week 10 – Pensacola, FL

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Disclosure: A big shout out to Always Online Wireless for keeping me connected during our Life On the Road Week 10. Without their data services, I would be dead in the water. As always, all opinions are my own. The only thing on this trip that was set in stone was going to Pensacola Beach, FL. Last year, […]

Life On the Road – Weeks 8 & 9 Texas, Louisiana & Alabama

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Disclosure: A big shout out to Always Online Wireless for keeping me connected during our Epic RV Trip. Without their data services, I would be dead in the water. As always, all opinions are my own. Once you let one week pass without a Life On the Road update, the weeks just FLY by. Next […]

Owning a Shasta Airflyte Reissue or “Excuse Me, What Kind of Trailer Is That?”

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One of the most fun parts of this crazy RV trip of ours is seeing how others react to my trailer, Daisy. She is a Shasta Airflyte Reissue. She was built in 2015 but is made to look like a 1961 Shasta.  I admit she is a looker but I had no idea how much […]

On the Road Week 7 – Guns, guns and more guns

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Today I am sitting in a Starbucks in Brenham, Texas. We’ve been on the road in the US for right at 7 weeks. When we decided to make this trip, I got quite a bit of push back from people. People in Canada said: Are you sure you want to go to Trumpland? What if […]

Life On the Road Week 6 – New Mexico

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Visiting friends is AMAZING but the week after can be a bit of a letdown. Back to our not quite comfortable bed, iffy meals and moving every day. We spent this week checking out New Mexico. We had grand plans for New Mexico but once we were here I felt a bit meh about it. […]