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Well I had been thinking about my birthday this year a lot. It was one of many birthdays lately that don’t come with any fun benefits beyond being alive still which of course is a great benefit lol. 68 and younger ages seem to be ages attached to more and more obits lately. It hasContinue reading “My birthday that the whole family attended on Long Island (Oh they had a wedding too lol). Or Throgs Neck Bridge and LIE Oh My!”

Well I’m starting to get the itch to do another cross country. Don’t get me wrong I love being on the lake in Maine for the summer but I want to be ready to book when reservations open up. I’m thinking of leaving from Maine right after Labor Day 2024 and being back in FloridaContinue reading “Let the planning begin”

We’ve been back 18 days and have been crazy busy. Dock in…thanks Brian Thomas, Raft in after replacing anchors (still wondering what happened to a few cement blocks and a five gallon pail of cement) , boat in (after polishing pontoons. More on the why later), gazebo roof on and screens replaced, furniture out, gardensContinue reading “Well we’ve been back”

June 9: Well folks yesterday was the last day of our travels this time. We left Verona in a cloud of acid eye burning cough inducing Canadian wildfire smoke. As you have probably experienced lately or at least seen pictures of it, the smoke made mid-day look like dim and apocalypse like. Our trip finallyContinue reading “That’s a Wrap”

June 7: Well getting back to our place in Maine was getting very real now. One more overnight and we were going to be in Maine the following day. I have absolutely LOVED this road trip. This was a bucket list trip that despite major reservations Jo agreed to accompany me on. I have stoppedContinue reading “New campgrounds are always a gamble but this one was….literally a gamble.”

June 6: Well we left Indiana without any tears and drove on to Ohio. I dont think I had ever been in Ohio before but traveling and the weather were both great. Our next stop on our way to Maine was at a campground in Geneva on the Lake. This campground was across the streetContinue reading “Now this is more like it!”

June 4: Jo warned me about sharing my experience with our visit to our lakefront campsite in Angola, Indiana. I feel I would be remiss to not share the good with the not so good and in this case the bad. I mentioned in my last blog post that I had snagged two days atContinue reading “OK I now need to take reviews with a grain of salt. Or in this case many grains of dirt.”

June 2: I think I mentioned that when I said I wanted to get a haircut she was perhaps a bit over enthusiastic about the idea…absent minded professor look I believe she said. Well I felt 10# lighter and I think we even got better gas mileage with my new look. It has become excitingContinue reading “Well we left St Cloud new haircut and all”

June 1: After a nice trip from Bismarck with many many more views of landscape bordering on Badlands rocks interspersed with big sky fields we arrived in St Cloud, Minnesota. I realized St. Cloud (named after a French saint) was close to Minneapolis (twin cities duh I’m slow) where I had visited when In aContinue reading “St Cloud, MN here we come”

5/30 Our stay in Miles City over we departed uneventfully and headed to North Dakota, our first stop in a while that wasn’t in Montana. We really liked Montana and visiting and catching up with friends but it was time to head to Maine and see our family. After driving for 6 hours we arrivedContinue reading “A capital time in the Capital”