Tag: trailer living
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We’ve Sprung A Leak!
The good news was throughout last night’s torrential Minnesota rain and distant thunder, our trailer (yet to be named) kept us warm and dry. The bad news was the pesky shower leak was not fixing itself. Several days ago, Reg noticed a slow drip that created a puddle under the drainpipe. There’s always something. With…
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Who Were We Kidding?
The discussion began last fall when we had time to kill while camping on the Oregon coast. Always curious about new RV floor plans, Reg pulled into a dealership where we were able to wander through a variety of models without a salesperson breathing down our necks. We’d been mostly happy with our Winnebago. At…
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Fledgling Snowbirds
We are one month into our first-time snowbird experience, having ditched the cold, gray Oregon sky in exchange for brighter, warmer winter days in Tucson, Arizona. We spent three nights here last March, which is when we decided to reserve the same site for our 2-month stay this year. We liked the lemon tree – the roots…
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Somewhere in North Carolina
Today we picked up Minnie, our little vacation home on wheels. After 10 days on the road, we are more than happy to to leave hotel life behind. Reg directed the truck toward the blue sky and we were off. It took awhile to clean and organize our space, but we’re already feeling pretty much…
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At Least We’re Not in a Tent
We woke up this morning, our third at Grayland Beach State Park, to the sound of drips on our trailer roof. After the absolutely beautiful day we had yesterday, it was a surprising disappointment. But we agreed, “At least we’re not in a tent!” Above are scenes from our outing yesterday to Ocean Shores, a…
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Backroads Across America: Big Sky Country
Today we wound our way out of the Black Hills of South Dakota, snuck through a corner of Wyoming and arrived in Montana – Big Sky Country. The gently rolling hills of Montana’s eastern plains seem to stretch on forever…and so does the sky above them. It seems like spring has been late arriving in…
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Backroads Across America: Good Times in the Badlands
Badlands National Park appears rather suddenly among the grasslands of South Dakota. These seemingly harsh lands are the result of millions of years of earth’s ever-changing climate. This is a landscape of extremes. We arrived yesterday to clear blue skies and warm temperatures, the first we’ve had in two and a half weeks. Pulling into…
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Backroads Across America: More Than Bad Weather Brewing For Us
We opted for a second night at our Dubuque, Iowa hotel as we waited for wind and snow flurries to blow through the western part of the state. To fill our rainy day, we decided to follow the scenic Mississippi River drive outlined in our guidebook. It seemed simple enough, but wouldn’t you know it…another…
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Backroads Across America: Going With the Flow
All of a sudden the ill winds are flowing all around us. The threat of extreme weather has blocked much of our westward path…and northward and southward paths too! We intended to take the better part of a week driving around the coast of Michigan and continuing into Wisconsin, taking in the sights along the…
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