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Camped a few times over the past couple years at Beaver Springs, Piedmont. I can’t figure out why I love camping so much… middle of nature/nowhere? We already live there. Beautiful view? We already have that. I have to figure out the secret so I can live like I’m camping every day 😊😊😊. But in [...]

Covid put a stop to our traveling for a while…then when we got back to going, I didn’t keep up with this blog at all! So, this is my first post in a long time and on this day in May, 2025, I’m going to go back two years to see if i can play [...]

For my birthday weekend 2020, we headed down to Memphis for a long weekend. When we left, COVID was just a small blip on the radar in Washington State. It would be the last trip we would go on for over a year...but what a great trip it was! We stayed in a wonderful two-bedroom [...]

Took a drive a couple weekends ago just looking at the countryside... This was the "party bus" for a wedding that came in to the place we were having a drink...between wedding and reception. This last one was taken with my 1940's Voigtlander (120 film)

I forgot I never finished this post so I'm writing this about 5 mos after we went to Chicago... After pretty much staying home most of the time while I was back in school, I wanted to GO SOMEWHERE when I graduated.  So, we went to Chicago by Amtrak.  I had been there several times [...]

It is done! I have graduated!  I graduated with my Associate of Arts Degree, with honors, on May 19th.  The last semester kicked my butt with algebra, but that turned out to be the only B I got during all semesters…otherwise I got A’s.  A lot of weekends of doing nothing but homework and studying, but [...]

I know, I know...the title of the blog is SMALL trips with Tim and Chris...and we do do those, I promise!  In the meantime, vacation in Toronto, Canada! Whew!  It's hard to condense 10 days of a trip in a wonderful city into something that's not too long to read. Although we left in the [...]

This really isn't a small trip, but not a full-blown vacation either.  This is my birthday trip.  I was still in school for my actual birthday so we had to wait until after finals.  I came to Savannah for a visit with my mom back in 2012, and fell in love with the place.  So...the [...]

We did a day trip on the motorcycle to Millstream Gardens Conservation Area  just outside of Fredericktown, Missouri, today. We rode down to Caledonia first and stopped at the Old Country Mercantile for a frappe, and then up the street to the Caledonia Wine Cottage  for a drink and I got a sandwich (the Italian). [...]