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Meeting a Bikepacker Riding on I-10
To say our trip home from the Men’s Final Four Tournament of the basketball season of 2024-25 was an adventure would be a severe understatement. We left San Antonio early in the morning knowing that the 14 hour drive was ahead. The rest of the family left about an hour before we did, but we…
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Driving to San Antonio Riverwalk Trails
Another year, another Final Four. Well, not really. While Auburn University seems to always be one of the best basketball teams in the country every year, they never are quite good enough to close the deal. Of course, that is a subject for another time. This year, Auburn did make it to the Final Four…
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Any View is Good From the Van
We try to take short trips in LOKI, our 2000 Ford E250 XL van conversion in progress, just as we would long journeys. Although we’re still halfway to being ready for overnight trips in Loki, we’ve made good use of him for grocery runs and date nights. Groceries Loki is an extended van, which means…
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Van Work and Our First Drive
Work on the van continues, but more importantly, we were able to take our first drive out of town in the van. We drove south towards Dothan on a shake down drive of sorts, and everything went great.
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A Few Days at Gulf Shores Beach
We come down to Gulf Shores as often as we can, but our favorite time of year to come down here is once the heat has dissipated and the people have all gone back to work and school. Photos from the Week
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Quick Trip to Gulf Shores and Pensacola
We met up with some family from Texas and shared a condo and the beautiful beaches of Gulf Shores. While we were down that way we visited the famous LuLu’s and had dinner, and got to spend some good quality time on the beach. In a companion post on my photography site, I did take…
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Arriving in Colorado for Our Winter Stay
Scott and Deborah made it to their winter home. They will be staying there until next April or until the bus will start again, whichever. The temperatures are 60+ during the day and 40+ at night right now. They are lovin it already. Scott is thrilled not to be sweating any more! Here is a…
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Leaving North Carolina for Texas
It is difficult to say goodbye to friends and to leave a place you have come to call home. We left North Carolina last week to travel to Texas where we will be staying for a month or so before going to Colorado for the rest of the year. Eddie, Nora, Leslie, Jerry, Josh and…
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Taking a Bus Conversion on a Ferry
One of the interesting (and sometimes scary) things about owning a very large vehicle, like a bus, is the question that always sits in the back of your mind: Will we fit in or under that? Usually, the question comes up when you are looking at bridge clearances. However, in this case, we were taking…
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Finding the Right MCI Bus for a Conversion
After the quilt show in Fort Lauderdale we headed for Heartland Motor Coach in Ocala, FL (update: they are no longer in business) to look at a few buses they would have that might be suitable for our new bus conversion project (or our traveling home). They had two or three that we were interested…
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