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Answers to your questions about Gate Guarding… We really appreciate your engagement with our posts! We received numerous questions about this gig. Our answers are below. We’ve also added a few photos with some photo captions. Enjoy!!! 1) How do…
Gate Guarding Update – 11/25/25 We had pretty well accepted the idea that the soonest we would get a gate would be December 1, so we set about getting settled in for a week of doing nothing. On Friday, we…
Here we sit. We left our jobs at Wonder Woods RV Park in the Sister Lakes of SW Michigan on November 6th. We stopped for a while in Joliet, IL, to take care of some business stuff, then on to…
While spending the summer in SW Michigan, we were absolutely blessed with MANY visitors! While we tried to always remember to take pictures with our visitors, we weren’t always successful. Some people just stopped by for a quick chat, while…
When we left our careers and started this new life, we never expected to ride an emotional roller coaster through work-camping experiences. When we left Knutson Farms in Fisher, MN, after the sugarbeet harvest, we pulled away without ever saying…
This post has been one year in the making! Before we made plans to “quit-ire” and hit the road full-time in an RV, we did A LOT of planning, research, and budget work. Below, we have outlined all of our…
RV Maintenance Maintaining an RV is much the same as maintaining a house, except that it needs to be done on a more regular basis. Things seem to go wrong with an RV much more easily than with a house.…
We did the drawing for the complimentary LifeLine Screening this morning in Georgetown, CO!! Our grandson Henry chose the winner!! The winner is… Linda L, our old neighbor!!! Runner up was Dan P, whom Ken went to high school with.…
IMPORTANT POST!!! FREE SCREENING; Keep reading… A couple of weeks ago, we both had a “Life Line Screening” done. They were in Dowagiac, MI., just a few miles from us. We paid $168 each and had the following scans done:…
Shrine of Christ’s Passion For more than 25 years, we lived less than an hour’s drive from the Shrine of Christ’s Passion in St John, Indiana. Did we ever visit the shrine? No. We waited until we were more than…
Things have slowed down significantly for us at Wonder Woods, so we can take some time away and visit different places. A few weeks ago, we set out for South Bend, Indiana, to visit the Grotto of Our Lady of…
Is living on the road, in a 340 sq ft RV, less expensive than living in a “sticks and bricks” home? Well, it depends! There are MANY expenses that we no longer have because we don’t have a regular house,…
