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  <div class="message"><p><strong>The Bay of Fundy&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>The entrance to the Atlantic or Maritime Provinces of Canada for us lies just north of the border with Maine.&nbsp; The crossing is at Calais, Maine into St Steven, New Brunswick, both small towns.&nbsp; Towing Tank, our Jeep, we went through the customary inquisition during our turn at the international turnstile.&nbsp; I’m unsure what exactly caused it, but the border guards decided to search our motor home and Jeep.&nbsp; Instructed to pull over to the side where all 57’ of our motorcade could be…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/travel-blog/blog/7078204/august-1-august-31-2022-the-maritime-provinces-of-canada">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>For the past two months we have been camp hosting, tied down a bit to a job of sorts, albeit happy and exciting volunteer jobs in fantastic locations working with and for mostly fantastic people.&nbsp; Our little adventures in and around those state parks have been very memorable to say the least.&nbsp; Now, we are breaking free of any responsibilities and heading east and north to parts of the country we have never experienced yet.&nbsp; Our travelin’ bones are singing a new song as we light out of Michigan heading for…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/travel-blog/blog/7057405/july-1-july-31st-2022-the-northern-appalachians-to-the-maine-coast-6dd4dc26-bc07-474c-8cb1-9073c8d9b97c">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <a href="/travel-blog/blog/7022440/june-1-june-30-2022-port-crescent-state-park-michigan">June 1-June 30, 2022...Port Crescent State Park, Michigan</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>All to soon it came time to head to the tip of the nail of the Thumb of Michigan and Port Crescent State Park where we have another month-long stint for volunteer camp hosting.&nbsp; (Michigan looks like a mitten complete with the thumb if you hold your right hand out with the palm facing you.) These gigs typically call for a 90 day commitment but both Pilot Mountain, our last stop, and Port Crescent are but 30 day deals.&nbsp; It works out for us, though.&nbsp; This is the Summer that we are aiming to reach Nova Scotia…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/travel-blog/blog/7022440/june-1-june-30-2022-port-crescent-state-park-michigan">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>During April we spent a good deal of time weaving our way northeasterly up and down, around, and through the Blue Ridge Mountains. Having been through the Smokies and Blue Ridge before in our lives we sought the places and spaces we hadn’t yet experienced.&nbsp; Another locale that fit that description is the mountain where we will spend May camp hosting.&nbsp; Pilot Mountain State Park, 20 miles west of Winston Salem, NC is our assignment.&nbsp;</p>
<p>On the first of May we dropped down from on high at New River State Park…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/travel-blog/blog/6990921/may-1-may-30-2022-pilot-mountain-state-park-and-the-sauratown-mountains">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <a href="/travel-blog/blog/6970236/april-1-30-2022-islands-rivers-ocean-and-the-ancient-appalachians-heading-north-along-the-sou">April 1-30, 2022...Islands, Rivers, Ocean, and the Ancient Appalachians...Heading North along the Southeastern Atlantic Coast</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p><strong>Jacksonville’s Hanna City Park and St Augustine&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Adios to the Gulf Coast and Buenos Dias to the old Spanish Coast of Florida.&nbsp; New adventures await Diane and me as we are venturing now into lands we have not yet experienced in our travels together.&nbsp; We are bounding across the center of the North Florida peninsula bound for Jacksonville and St Augustine.&nbsp; We particularly want to see the oldest settlement in America and to facilitate that I booked us into a city-owned park called Hanna on the beach in…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/travel-blog/blog/6970236/april-1-30-2022-islands-rivers-ocean-and-the-ancient-appalachians-heading-north-along-the-sou">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><strong>Goose Island and Aransas Pass&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>We couldn’t resist it.&nbsp; We just had to see our family in Texas one last time before we left the state.&nbsp; So, we spent the night in the parking lot of Cracker Barrel, that icon of interstate eateries and Americana jimmy-jack.&nbsp; Suni and her family came out to share dinner with us where we had big platefuls of comfort food and warm laughter for the evening.&nbsp; Bidding farewell for now, we bought the kids little gifts to remember us by.&nbsp; We hate to leave our family, but we’re bound…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/travel-blog/blog/6945103/march-1-march-31st-2022-the-entire-gulf-coast-lay-before-us">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <a href="/travel-blog/blog/6928756/december-1-2021-february-28-2022-back-to-the-pedernales">December 1, 2021- February 28, 2022...Back to the Pedernales</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>We’ve returned for a second season volunteering at Pedernales Falls State Park near Johnson City, Texas.&nbsp; This place is probably the best option for us to spend time near Pflugerville where Suni’s family lives.&nbsp; Out of all the state parks in this part of Texas, this is our favorite and I think it is the best of the lot.&nbsp; It is a little out of the way and an hour and 15 minute drive to Suni’s house, but that is also what makes it a good place to hang out. It’s hasn’t yet been totally civilized out…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/travel-blog/blog/6928756/december-1-2021-february-28-2022-back-to-the-pedernales">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Up to this point in my writing I have tried to focus on our travels...Where have we been, whom have we met, what is it like traveling and being on the road?&nbsp; I throw in the odd remembrance from days gone by that I think might be relevant to or connected in some way to what I am writing about or where we are at the time.&nbsp; I started out in this long and jointed missive wanting to reach out to my friends and my family, giving them written descriptions of our travels.&nbsp; I also wanted to create a record for…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/travel-blog/blog/6928755/december-16-2021-january-16-2022-signs-in-the-sky">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Now the cool breezes of Autumn are stirring.&nbsp; A little later than the days of yore, say 10 or 15 years ago when the I used to mark the peak of the Autumn’s colored leaves in Missouri as the week of October 20.&nbsp; Somehow, that was always the week of peak color. Lately, the peak occurs 1-3 weeks later.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I recall during the Fall of 1982, precisely that week of the 20th, Diane and I, along with Bob Breidenbach and his wife, Laura, took a four day float on the Jack’s Fork River deep in the St Francois Mountains…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/travel-blog/blog/6853311/november-7-december-15-2021-the-inevitable-change-of-season">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Diane and I are essentially risk-takers.&nbsp; We consider the odds as carefully as we can, but basically we go for it. We always have. Like the hillbilly perched on the edge of a bridge over a river who is about to jump off after he yells, “Hey dude, watch this!”, we leap off the edge often.&nbsp; However, unlike the whiskey-fueled, show-off hillbilly, we will check to see how deep the water is first.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Selling our house and most everything in it, denuding ourselves of things, after a lifetime of accumulation, to set…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/travel-blog/blog/6827322/september-7-november-7-2021-can-you-really-go-home-again">Read more</a></span></div>
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