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Over the Rainbow Bridge

It is with a shattered heart that I announce that Freckles passed away on Saturday, April 13 after a short battle with brain cancer. She was the best of dogs and the standard bearer for every other dog I will ever know. Freckles is a beagle mix who will traveling with me across the nation. I adopted Freckles at the end of the first summer in my house near Broad Ripple in July 2010. She was my…

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The Best Ending

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We’re Walking, We’re Walking

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Fabric and Fun

Today’s step count: 14, 919 steps for 6.1 miles. Today’s step count is a little misleading because we were still walking after midnight for another 3/4 of a mile. (I can only mention things like this after I’m back safe so my mom doesn’t worry.) When we first went to Times Square on Sunday, Jaime spotted a fabric store on the second floor of a building and then we pasted a sculpture of a button…

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Be Still My Little Nerd Heart

New feature for this trip: Sunday’s step count was 13,036 or 5.34 miles walking. Today’s step count: 16, 305 steps or 6.68 miles. Not bad for a non-hiking trip. We got up around 7am, but it was closer to 10:30 before we headed out for brunch. We decided to go to Hell’s Kitchen to a kitschy place called Mom’s Kitchen. Mom’s Kitchen has an 80’s-90’s kid vibe with vintage metal lunchboxes for…

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New York State of Mind

Here is a departure from my normal travels to natural wonders. This week I will be in New York City! Jaime invited me months ago on the basis of a band called First Aid Kit that she wanted to see at Radio City Music Hall and then we would figure the rest out. Well, my must do was a Broadway show and I chose the play Good Night, Oscar. It was really hard not to pick a musical, but I wanted…

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Early Bird Gets the Jelly Fish

Today was a roller coaster. Something good followed by something foul. The day started off early with me getting up at 5am to go to work with Andy at Folly Beach. The original plan was I would enjoy laying on the beach for the day while he worked, but that was out the window with the cold temps. I wore a thick cardigan and my jacket with rubber boots and my new baseball cap. So cute. We headed…

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On the Water

I would like to say today was warmer, but alas, that would be a lie. Andy has a job with the parks department and he gets to get into some attractions free due to a reciprocal pass with several places. He handed me the list and told me to pick what sounded interesting and I had to go with the Boat Harbor Tour. I love being on the water. But first, breakfast. There is a place called Big Bad…

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Rainy Day Fun

Well, I brought the cold with me from the Midwest. This is a common Spring Break phenomenon for me. I have spent many a Spring Break somewhere experiencing an unseasonable cold snap. Luckily, this was a milder one. It was cloudy and in the 50’s most of the day, so I was not terribly chilly in my light jacket which is a step up from the winter coat I left at home. To start, our plan was to go to…

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Spring Break!

It is finally Spring Break! Some housekeeping first: Old Unreliable is gone! I put the RV up for sale under consignment at an RV dealer just in time for the pandemic RV boom to end. I took it to them in April or May and they had a 90 day guarantee that if it did not sell, then they would buy it. Well, 90 days came and went. So I said, “hey, what’s your offer?” Well, it was $5k less than what I…

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Detour

Writing about the last day is always the hardest. The adrenaline of travel has worn off. Sometimes all you did was drive or fly. This time, we did a lot with our final day in Tennessee. We made plans with Nick and Lanette to meet them for an early lunch at The Country Porch with the most rural sounding address I’ve ever heard: Muddy Pond Road. This area has a Mennonite population, which for…

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Autumn Adventure

The plan for today was to go hiking. We thought Nick would have a suggestion, but it turns out he has plenty of hiking he can do on his homestead, so he had not been to any of the state parks. I had already gone to Cummins Falls and we knew Burgess Falls was close. Yesterday when Andy had looked up Burgess Falls, it said the trail was super rugged and even included cables you had to scoot…

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Still Kickin'

Still Kickin’

Some of you may be thinking that I have abandoned this blog, but no. I just did not go any where this summer. I made some major repairs to Old Unreliable so that I could put her on a lot and be done with it. Actually, first I put her on Facebook Marketplace and had an immediate offer for $45K and a message from a camper dealer in Lafayette to put it on consignment on their lot. I went with…

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Thar She Blows!

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My Happy Place

Monterey Bay is my happy place. It’s best in the summer, but spring is not too bad either. The aquarium opens at 10am and I assured everyone that it is an all day experience. We got there around 10:20 and even with Dad’s handicapped parking, we still ended up one street uphill and a few blocks away. The line was super long, so we grabbed some (dry) cinnamon rolls for breakfast and browsed a few…

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Get Your Motor Runnin’, It’s the Pacific Coast Highway

Today we were supposed to go whale watching, but high winds (which make big waves) got it hopefully just postponed. Since that was out, we moved up going down California Highway 1 or the Pacific Coast Highway. I jumped at the chance to drive this one, even though our rental is a minivan. The idea was we would pullover for views while working our way to a whole group of parks in the Big Sur area.…

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Farm Fun