Happy Anniversary! On September 28th we celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary. Rather than traditional jewelry–of which I have enough to open my own store after two dozen previous anniversaries, not to mention birthdays, Christmas, and Mother’s Day–Karl decided I needed an electric bicycle, so I can keep up with him on our battlefield rides (which sometimes become an actual […]
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SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER
Tunnels and Traffic and Bins, oh my! We were in no particular hurry to leave on Thursday, September 1st. Ryan’s off-campus housing was being professionally cleaned, so he didn’t want to start moving his stuff in until late in the afternoon. We took our time packing up Thursday morning, and were on the road at […]
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AUGUST ANGST
Updated 9/17/16 Other than a few local errands, our E-trek was parked for nearly the entire month of August; however, we did have a few issues to resolve with our unit before the end of August, since we were planning several trips for September, including driving to Boston on September 1st. We also hope to […]
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TRIP #3—BACK TO BOSTON
Seems we can’t get enough of Boston, because two weeks after we had been there to celebrate Easter/my birthday, we were back on the road. However, this time we were on a mission to deliver Ryan his bicycle, which we were supposed to bring on Easter. However, with all of the RV maintenance (detailed in […]
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The Long, Cold Winter Part 2
The next project was to improve the navigation situation. Recall from our trip to Boston that the factory-installed navigation system in the eTrek offered little help when we needed it most. Furthermore, we had always found the navigation in our Honda Ridgeline deficient (i.e., “make a u-turn if possible” was the only re-routing the system […]