Friday November 11th, 2022 Our return trip was somewhat unremarkable. There was a big shift in the weather, turning wet, windy and cold. We drove mainly two lanes back to Michigan and routed through northern Louisiana, central Arkansas, western Tennessee/Kentucky snd southern Indiana. We scored a free campsite in northern Louisiana at the Corney Lake Recreation Area. This was especially […]

Cant get enough of the big sky in Texas.

It was a good two weeks just settling into the daily routine on the farm. Amy and Sarah are quite the busy bees. Chicken chores, poop patrol, brushing Twister, lunging Sparkles the stick horse and wrangling the chickens. Whew, I am exhausted just writing about it all. My favorite time was spent in the flower fairy garden with Sarah. Whether […]

October 30th-31st 2022 What a fun weekend! Everything on Amys farm has a name, from the chickens to all the equipment. Their little tractor is named Peanut and their new side by side is named The Raspberry. On Sunday we piled into The Raspberry and went trick or treating to the neighbors. Amy has done a great job of ”neighboring”. […]

Thursday October 27th, 2022 I always have to snap a shot of the state line and text it to Amy. That means we are close, although in Texas, close is subject to interpretation. We got an early start on the day for 2 reasons. The first being that I wanted to get out of the Red Rock Canyon campground asap. […]

Wednesday October 26th 2022 Woke up on the top of the hill with a view and ended the day in the bottom of a canyon with no view at all. Got a very late start on this beautiful morning. A workout, shower and breakfast take a bit of time, but we were not in a hurry to leave this park. […]

The sun finally broke out and it was a spectacular day to drive thru Kansas. It is interesting how you get a feeling for a place. We had ridden the BMW into Kansas a number of years ago and i remember really liking the state. That was reinforced today. The angle of the fall sun and the yellow poplar leaves […]

Monday October 24th Today marks the three year anniversary of selling the hardware store. There have been a number of ”marker moments” in my life and this one is close to the top. I could never of imagined that we would be tooling around in a van 3 yrs ago, but here we are. Boy did the wind blow last […]

Sunday October 23rd We left our beautiful spot with the intention of ending the day early enough to pull out the bikes and get in a good ride. We headed towards Honey Creek State Park on Rathbun Lake in Iowa, the biggest lake in the state. It was a very windy warm drive. Corn is king in Iowa and we […]

We left sunny, warm Grand Ledge knowing we wanted to end up in Texas at our daughters, but totally unsure of which direction we wanted to take to get there. We hopped on I 69 and headed for Ft. Wayne knowing we had a couple hours to make a decision. Our future travels appear to be Michigan to Florida, as […]