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Upper Peninsula (MI)

2023 Road Trip
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We left Bay City Monday morning (Labor Day) around noon and headed up the Michigan’s Upper Penisula. The Mackinaw Bridge was closed until noon for their annual “Labor Day bridge walk”, so we took our time and went up the coast of Lake Huron on Rte 23. It was a really beautiful drive. Once over the Mackinaw Bridge, we meandered through some back roads and headed to our wild campsite. After several turns on dirt roads, we ended up behind a camper van. He let…Continue Reading “Upper Peninsula (MI)” →

Heading to Bay City

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We had a great stop in Erie for Stew’s birthday, and now we are headed to our friends’, the Sailing Jasons, wedding in Bay City MI. We have been working on how to do things as we travel. Our first stop today for lunch worked out well. We actually pulled into a great Ohio turnpike travel station. They actually had a spot for RVs! They provide free air, water, pump out and for a nominal fee of $20 you can stay the night. We used…Continue Reading “Heading to Bay City” →

First night car-camping

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We did practice sleeping in the car at the cabin but this was going to be the first night we camped in a campground. We had most everything packed and ready to go – the day was a bit dreary, rain was in the forecast so we weren’t in a hurry to head to Cherry Springs State Park to camp. Stew had always wanted to camp at Cherry Springs so we were really looking forward to it – but rain and camping are no fun!…Continue Reading “First night car-camping” →

Our next adventure…

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Our friends the sailing Jasons (aka Jason C. & Jason G.) are getting married Labor Day weekend in Bay City MI… We did not think we could make their wedding with all the family issues this summer. But here we are, at Pine Creek, just chilling. So we decided to hatch a plan that started with going to the wedding. We decided to try to outfit the SUV (Buick Enclave) with a bed and room to carry our gear. This would give us the ability…Continue Reading “Our next adventure…” →

God is laughing out loud!

2023 Florida
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What is that saying? “Make plans, God laughs.” April 15th at 9:36 PM while I was babysitting Arlo, my new grandson, I received a voicemail from an unknown caller in Florida. The caller was slurring her words, so much that I could barely understand her… well, that caller was my mother! She was playing doubles ping-pong and went for a shot but instead tripped and landed on the floor breaking her hip, wrist, and elbow. We found out later, that she also lost a large…Continue Reading “God is laughing out loud!” →

Our Plan B for spring is a go…

2023 Florida
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When last I posted we were in Vero Beach preparing to install the shore charger and head to Cocoa Beach for a few days to deal with all the Bahamas provisions and end up hurricane prepping in Titusville. The shore charger installation went very well, but we could not test it for the few days in CoCoa Beach since we did not pay for shore charging… we did test it in Titusville and it worked perfect! When we were in Coco Beach, we had to…Continue Reading “Our Plan B for spring is a go…” →

Here we go…

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I’m writing this sitting at a bus stop outside Lowes in vero beach. It’s about 87 and so humid I have to watch I don’t drip sweat on my phone! We just picked up the parts needed for our charger install, hopefully we have everything now. We left Boca Lake on Friday and cruised to Hobe Sound for a really nice anchorage. 17 bridges are brutal! then Saturday we landed in Vero beach with the plan to use the free goLine bus to get parts…Continue Reading “Here we go…” →

…fools and their plans

2023 Florida
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Today is our wedding anniversary, you know “only fools marry again” so April fools day seemed a good choice for a wedding date… plus it was a palindrome (4/1/14)! We are ever the fools! We waited and waited and waited for my passport, called the passport office, lost hours of my life on those extended 6 hour plus holds… so we decided we needed a new plan. Maybe it would be summer before the passport even arrived. So we found a new plan, but it…Continue Reading “…fools and their plans” →

… and we wait, and wait, and wait

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We are extremely frustrated at this point. It has been 10 weeks since I renewed my passport online! Still nothing! I call a few times weekly, each call yields 2.5+ hours on hold, then an agent that has to transfer me to the “online renewal agent”, another 2.5+ hours more on hold, finally an agent that can do nothing!! Each time I am trying to get an appointment at the passport office in Miami to no avail. And I am left with a brain muddled…Continue Reading “… and we wait, and wait, and wait” →