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Classic Creamy Pea Salad: An Old-Fashioned Favorite Worth Bringing Back
Some recipes disappear from the picnic table without anyone really noticing. Nobody announces that we have collectively stopped making them. There is no farewell dinner. One summer they are sitting beside the hamburgers and hot dogs, and a few summers later you suddenly realize you haven’t seen that familiar bowl… Read More ⇢
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Five Must-Visit RV Campgrounds in the Southeast: Part Two
A few weeks ago, I shared five campgrounds that stood out to us for reasons that went beyond having a place to park the RV. The article, “America’s Best RV Resort Campgrounds: Five Places That Turn a Stop Into a Story,” took us across the Southwest and reinforced something Vicky… Read More ⇢
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Fayette, Michigan: Where an Iron Town Still Tells Its Story
There are ghost towns where you have to use quite a bit of imagination. You find a foundation hidden beneath the weeds, perhaps an old cemetery tucked among the trees, and a historical marker explaining that hundreds of people once lived where you are standing. Fayette, Michigan isn’t that kind… Read More ⇢
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Is Retiring in an RV Really Cheaper Than Owning a Home?
There is a particular kind of arithmetic that happens as retirement gets closer. You begin looking around the house differently. The lawn that once took an hour to mow seems to have gotten larger. The roof is no longer simply a roof; it is something that will eventually need replacing.… Read More ⇢
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Grandma Cooper, Graham Crackers and a Lesson in Too Much
There probably wasn’t anything particularly remarkable about a package of graham crackers sitting in Grandma Cooper’s kitchen. That was the thing about Grandma. Something didn’t have to be remarkable for there to be a story behind it. You could be eating something you had eaten a hundred times before and… Read More ⇢
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Tuna Noodle Casserole: An Old-School Family Favorite
I don’t know why it is. I write five blog articles each week, and you would think deciding which recipe to share would be the easy one. It isn’t. Some weeks I can sit down and know exactly where I want to take you. Maybe it is somewhere Vicky and… Read More ⇢
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Red Rocks Amphitheatre: Where Colorado Built the Concert Hall
Have you ever been to a concert? Most of us probably have. Maybe it was inside a packed arena where the lights went down and thousands of people rose to their feet. Maybe it was a summer concert in a city park, where lawn chairs replaced theater seats and the… Read More ⇢
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Fort Gratiot Lighthouse: Where Michigan’s Blue Water Story Begins
There are places we visit once, enjoy, take a few pictures, and then move along. Fort Gratiot Lighthouse has never been one of those places for us. I could not possibly count the number of times Vicky and I have made the roughly hour-and-a-quarter drive to Port Huron to stand… Read More ⇢
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A Day in the Life of Cash the Traveling Poochon
There are three of us who make most of the decisions when we travel. Vicky and I make two of them. Cash is reasonably certain he makes the third. Cash is our Poochon, a little mix of Bichon Frise and Toy Poodle who was never actually supposed to become our… Read More ⇢
Here’s What We Have To Offer
Meet Bob DeVore (the blogger) and his Bride.
I have had the opportunity to wear many different hats and to earn many different titles, please allow me the opportunity to share with you.
