Vignettes of life — Accepting hands I recall the emotions associated with dating. At the age of 17, dressed in only enough clothes to cover the essentials, with cold drinks in hand, Randy, my boyfriend then, my husband now, and I prepared for the three-hour rafting trip. Just before getting in the water, he offered to…

A home without a pet contains empty spaces — I didn’t realize the gravity of my decision when I agreed to allow our daughter to foster kittens. When Kari proposed the idea, her father was a barrier to overcome. He dislikes cats. But when the fourteen-year-old tilted her head slightly to the right, flashed her crooked smile, and batted…

Travel articles from personal experience to guide others looking for adventure. — Many of you have been following our adventure of traveling across the US by reading our posts on RVing in Retirement. However, sometimes our stories are published in different Medium publications. Below I have compiled five stories from out trip that were not shared on our personal page. …

A reminder of the simple comforts of life — Fifty-six days on the road, yes 56! Each day planned out and a reservation waiting. Then we threw caution to the wind and drove thinking so far we have had no problem getting a site so let’s just wing it and see where we end up. …

Include them as family to reap the benefits — When we walk into the garage and open the car door, the dogs jump in. If we are packing the RV, the have different ways of responding, but they both make it clear they are ready to travel. Cisco jumps up the steps and becomes a permanent fixture in the…

Staying at Cherry Hills RV Park makes visiting Maryland, DC, and Virginia easy and enjoyable — In larger cities, finding an RV park can be difficult, and we have discoverd sometimes they are little more than parking lots. So when we drove into Cherry Hills RV Park we were excited at what greeted us. Sure, I had read about the amenities, however; what is written in…

There is an App for that — This graph is the result of a lot of planning and discussion. When we started planning, the goal was simple enough — travel from Idaho to Maine and home again. That didn’t sound too tough, but then the planning began. At first I felt overwhelmed. Where would we stay? What…

When traveling find a home base and drive to destinations — By the time we made it to New Jersey on our trek across the US, we had been on the road 46 days. Randy needed a break from driving the motorhome so we parked at Butterfly RV Park in New Jersey with the plan of driving to the attractions and…

Enjoyed the people, the history and the sites — Rhode Island is approximately 35 miles by 40 miles and the total area is 3,144; however, we spent four days appreciating this historic state. One of the highlights of visiting the capital city of a state is to explore the capital building. We visited several during our trek across the…