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Choosing the trailer length that was right for our RV lifestyle.
There are many options for enjoying the RV lifestyle. From tiny teardrop trailers, to fifth wheels, to giant land yachts. No one RV is right for everyone. My wife and I started our RV adventure as part-timers over 20 years ago. Our first trailer was just 23 feet, a Jayco Kiwi hybrid trailer. We could…
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Women have always made sacrifices. To save democracy, we may have to ask them to sacrifice more.
You don’t have to be a feminist (or perhaps you do) to know that women have always made sacrifices. Whether they give up careers to be stay at home moms or just bite their tongues when denigrated by a man. Women have had to fight and struggle for everything they have. There was a time…
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I owned a small business for over 20 years, no matter how hard I tried I was never able to separate my personal finances from the business.
Right up there with Mom and Apple Pie, being your own boss, is synonymous with America. There is a romantic notion about owning your own small business. How you will be free, that you can become wealthy. As a former business owner I can tell you that the reality is far from this fantasy. If…
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To Boondock or not to Boondock, that is the question.
I remember watching a senate hearing some time ago where the Postmaster General was being questioned by congress about the decline in first and fourth class mail at the Post Office. The Postmaster responded by telling the panel about the decline in mail volumes was due to the increase in the use of the internet…
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We tried Harvest Hosts for our RV travels for one year, it didn’t work for us.
In 2022 my wife and I took my recent unemployment as an opportunity to retire early and change our lives. We sold our house and everything in it, bought a new Grand Design Reflection 150, 30ft 5th wheel, and moved to Washington state. We spent a year staying with our son and his wife, watching…
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After More than 50 Years, a Penguin Killed my Small Business
There is an allure of independence, of freedom, associated with owning your own business. It can be quite tempting to stretch out on your own. But it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I know because I use to have one. And after it had survived over 50 years, it was ultimately done in…
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I Spent 12 Years as a Boy Scout Leader, a little ‘Wokeism’ will probably be good for the organization
In May, the Boy Scouts of America officially announced its name change to Scouting America. The name is reflective of a 2018 decision to allow girls to join Boy Scout troops. Girls have long been welcome to join their Venturing units and Explorer Scouts. But the recent inclusion of girls into the Cub Scout and…
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Why I canceled my Thousand Trails membership after I used it just once and bought a KOA Rewards membership
After 22 years as part-timers we retired early and bought a Grand Design 5th wheel to be our new traveling home. The biggest logistical challenge was finding a place to park every night. There are more people in the RV lifestyle than ever with snowbirds, full-timers and even remote workers. Finding space isn’t always easy, or…
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The Conservative fight against abortion isn’t about Life, it’s about Math.
Conservatives have framed their fights against abortion and all women’s reproductive healthcare as the fight for life. But the reality that they don’t want to talk about is that it is a numbers game. Lawmakers in state houses and Congress alike have even said so publicly, that it is a fight to protect the White…
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On our first trip to Disney World we penny-pinched, brought a hot plate and cooking pans in our checked luggage. Our all-inclusive trip cost less than $2,000!
Even though we had Disneyland in our back yard my fiancé and I had been dreaming of a trip to Walt Disney World in Florida for several years. We’d recently engaged and were to be married in a few months so this was a kind of wedding present to ourselves. But we were young, going…