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RV trip, Florida weeks 6, 7 & 8

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted, so let’s catch up, shall we? Three weeks ago we were in St. Petersburg again visiting with my Uncle Walter and Aunt Sue. As strange as it may sound, one of the highlights of their area is an Italian grocery store called Mazarro’s. Best fresh pasta ever. […]

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RV trip: Still in Florida. Still.

This is going to be another short post…we’re just not doing that much right now, and that’s totally ok by me. As much as we liked Lake Kissimmee State Park, the bad internet was not conducive to a productive work week. Before we left on Monday, however, we were visited by some local whooping cranes: […]

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RV Trip, Still in Florida

I’m going to keep this short and bang through this quickly because 1) I need to get a jump on a very busy work week, and 2) my internet here won’t handle many photos. There were only a few of us that partied hard enough to ring in the new year. But we were partied […]

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RV trip: Christmas in the Keys

Just a heads-up: this is a llllong post. It was an action-packed week. The MVP of Team Arnold was out of commission on Christmas Eve. That’s right: Amy was sick in bed. Amy planned to make one of her signature meals that night, so it was up to Aunt Sue and me to fill in. […]

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RV trip: Georgia to Florida

This month my girls have been doing a “good deed a day” advent calendar (thanks Aunt Sherry), performing some daily act of kindness as we count down towards Christmas. Monday’s challenge was “bake cookies for your neighbor.” So they gift-wrapped and delivered their fresh-baked cookies to a dozen or so of our campground neighbors: Wednesday […]

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RV trip: South Carolina

Amy has been putting our mirror space to good use; it became her whiteboard for the family schedule while we were in Charleston this week: The weather toggled between sunny and cloudy, but on Wednesday it rained and rained and rained all day and all night long. On Wednesday night we had gen-u-ine lowcountry frogmore stew: […]

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RV trip: North Carolina, week 2

While making our way to the Outer Banks in NC, we noticed what looked like litter on the sides of the roads everywhere. Turns out it was just cotton. Everywhere. We rolled in late on Monday night to discover that our targeted campground was closed for the season. The owner let us boondock on an empty patch […]

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RV trip: North Carolina

Before leaving Greensboro at the end of last week, we were visited a couple times by Greensboro News & Record columnist Jeri Rowe. He did a story on our trip which ran in yesterday’s Sunday paper. Amy with her Greensboro running buddies after their last run together. Amy really enjoyed getting connected with such a […]

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RV trip, Summer/Fall recap

It’s been quite a while, and it’s time to dust off the ol’ blog with an update. Here’s what we’ve been up to for the last few months… Shortly after arriving back in Indy after our roughly-year-long RV trip, we headed off to the Arnold family reunion in Thornville, Ohio: Our camping spot was perfect: […]

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The cost of a year-long RV trip

Below are some stats and figures from our trip. Was it almost a year? Was it over a year? Depends on how you look at it. The timeline: Just 6 weeks into our travels, my dad died. We spent about two months back in Indy living with my mom before resuming our travels. The stats: […]