Category: Road Journal
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Campervan Road Adventures!
Adventure means more than hiking past rocky outcrops, visiting old haunts, and seeing family! Adventure means stumbling into challenging circumstances! We were in Florida to help our son move into his new apartment in Orlando for his new job with Lockheed-Martin when the lock failed on the rear doors of our van! We could not…
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Campervan Adventures in Old Haunts!
When my wife and I were “courting” way back in graduate school days in Tennessee, we took a trip to Fall Creek Falls on the Cumberland Plateau and hiked through the woods through a steady rain, boasting to each other about which of us had the better raincoat (learning how to share life challenges together!)…
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Spontaneity: Joy of the Road!
My wife and I began planning our joint retirement four years in advance (calling those four years our freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years of retirement, building up to a sense of beginning rather than ending). As the senior year marched toward graduation, we decided that it would be great fun to get a little…