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Enjoying a quiet day in between. The last of our Christmas guests left today our New Years guests will not arrive until tomorrow. Dropped Greg off at Asheville airport just before noon. Now he is nearly home, on the "T": in between Logan and Cambridge. On the way...
Our Christmas celebration is winding down. After a yummy breakfast of Apple Buckwheat Pancakes accompanied by Sausage & Onions, CJ and Phil took their leave today to head for Tennessee to visit some of his family. Because of the I-40 rockslide they planned a route...
Good King Wenceslas looked outOn the Feast of StephenAs the snow lay "round aboutDeep and crisp and even Unlike the scene Wenceslas saw, our snow is melting slowly. Bob Jr. is now not much more than a puddle. We do still have enough ice on the road that we have to use...
Christmas started slowly. We all took our time awakening then made a delicious breakfast and cleaned up before we gathered in the living room and while the fire warmed us, we surprised one another with wonderfully thoughtful gifts. Enjoyed a yummy ham dinner and...
Greg, CJ, and Phil grabbed a quick snack then started the day with a snow sledding session on a nice slope just down the road from us. Check out the action with this You Tube link edited by Greg: You Tube Sledding Once they returned to the house we plied them with...
Back in the cove we tried out the snow boards that we bought in Waynesville on the way home. It was awesome!!!!! It's been somewhere around 50 years since either of us had gone snow sledding. Sometime after dark CJ and Phil arrived from Tampa and discovered that the...
There is still a lot of snow in our driveway and on our road but once we got all the dense icy snow off the top of our Trailblazer we ventured out onto the clear roads and went shopping. Initially we intended only to go as far as the Ingles and the Lowes in Sylva but...
Still have lots of snow on the ground. Really not much in the way of icicles but we do have a few here as the snow is sliding off the roof over the entry. Really need to knock it down before it decides to slide off on top of one of us. Reports are that the roads are...
The snow is still on the ground. Flurries in the morning but blue skies and sunshine in the afternoon. Still not warm enough to much melt. NC Dept of Transportation and National Weather Service is still issuing warnings to stay off the roads. We've enjoyed the day...
Ventured outside for a walk down our road and up the main gravel road in the cove. From the tracks in the snow it looks like most of our neighbors stayed home during the storm and only ventured out on foot. After a bit of a hike we headed back to the house to split...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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It’s an Indiana State Museum site about four miles up the Wabash River from Vincennes, Indiana and just around the corner from Ouabache Trails Park Campground, our home for the last four nights. Named for the country's first Secretary of War, Henry Knox, Fort Knox II...
Documentary Video Here Wow! This is a part of the story of the American Revolution that the two of us knew nothing about. Here at the George Rogers Clark National Historic Site here in Vincennes, Indiana. Here we learned that George Rogers Clark, son of a prominent...
An incredibly talented entertainer, Red Skelton came from very humble beginnings here in Vincennes, Indiana. He was the youngest in a family of four boys whose father passed away just months before he was born in 1913. Very early on he discovered a passion for...