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Coasties

Posted on March 27, 2026

Have I posted here since Tucson? Time and miles… For the last several days, we’ve been working our way, slowly, northward along the coast. Santa Barbara Sunrise RV Park: Ultra…

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Tucson

Posted on March 16, 2026

For all I know, Tucson is a terrible place to live… certainly in summer, and even in unexpected heat waves, the temperatures can be awful. But on a 75-degree day…

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Down the road a piece

Posted on March 14, 2026March 14, 2026

Why is the sky brown, you ask. That’s West Texas, I say. We left Kilgore Tuesday and, with a fuel stop in Eastland (look! Is that Mark Rosen? Fancy meeting…

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Here we go again

Posted on March 8, 2026

That’s Michele nearing the end of preparation for our next summer away. Early Tuesday we leave Kilgore, the first leg of a circuitous route to Bridgeport, Washington. En route, we’ll…

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Cultural adjustment

Posted on October 14, 2025October 14, 2025

The huge cottonwood had, apparently, reached the end of its practical life. I can only guess it was shedding limbs or, at the very least, threatening to shed limbs. Likely…

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Cranking out ice cream

Posted on August 23, 2025August 23, 2025

August evenings here where we’re camped in north central Washington tend to be warm. Not hot and sweaty like East Texas and not sweatshirtish like in Northwest Pennsylvania. August evenings…

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Remembering Mr. Garner

Posted on August 6, 2025

IN the old days, before there was Intermediate School and Middle School, there was Junior High. In Jacksonville, Texas junior high school was grades 7 through 9. The junior high…

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A fish tale

Posted on July 19, 2025July 19, 2025

My pal Clark Langley and I, with Kyle Jones — he of Jones Sport Fishing, were on the Columbia in the wee (VERY wee — 3:30 comes TWICE a day!)…

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Campers

Posted on July 3, 2025July 3, 2025

Are there any rude ones? I genuinely love this camp host lifestyle. Sure, it’s hot; there is always garbage cans to service and grass to be cut. But there are…

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Millie at work

Posted on June 15, 2025

My morning rounds always include Millie. Each morning begins — after breakfast and coffee of course — at the gate. The parking area behind the swimming lagoon is closed each…

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