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How We Find Camping Spots While Traveling

How We Find Camping Spots on the Fly One of the questions I frequently get asked is how we find camping spots on our cross-country trips. For those who like to plan their trips carefully you would not be able to travel the way King and I do. Routes often get changed on the

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Adjusting to Technology in Retirement

Life in the Not-So-Fast Lane Navigating Updates in Technology as We Age I guess I’m getting to be “that age. “Today I opened my laptop and accessed my mailbox. Yahoo mail has been updated. I didn’t like it. Not. One. Tiny. Bit. I spent all of five seconds trying to

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A Quiet Week at Kal-Haven Outpost

Fall Camping and Halloween Events It’s been a peaceful week at Kal-Haven Outpost. Now that school is back in session, the campground is quieter during the weekdays, but by the weekend, the camping spirit is alive, and the sites fill up. RV sites are fully booked, along with cabins, glamping tents, and our

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Summer Adventures

Prepping for Our California Road Trip – Life at Kal-Haven Outpost Back To Blogging It’s been a while since my last post, and there are a thousand excuses. I thought about retiring from writing, the trailer’s Wi-Fi is spotty, King had some health issues, or maybe I was just lazy.

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Rock Hunting Adventure

Rock Hunting Adventure at Pier Cove: Discovering Lightning Stones Yesterday, King, Petra, and I drove to Pier Cove to look for lightning stones (septarian stones). The beaches along the west Michigan coast are pretty well-known for these types of stones. According to the Michigan Mineralogical Society, these stones were formed as a ball

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