by Gerri Almand | Jul 1, 2021 | Travel Stories, Uncategorized
RV Reluctance has been my schtick for over five years. So how did it happen that I’m now living full time in a motorhome? Flash back to 2015: “I think we should buy an RV and travel the country,” my excited husband said. “You want me to leave my garden, my orchids,... 
by rob@goodkarmadesigns.com | Oct 2, 2020 | Travel Stories
I don’t do well with stinging, biting insects. I react both emotionally and physiologically, and it’s not pretty. In our RV travels, we’ve encountered pesky bugs almost every place we’ve been. My husband Michael takes them in stride. But then, bugs rarely bite or... 
by rob@goodkarmadesigns.com | Oct 2, 2020 | Travel Stories
I’m thinking the RV Show at the Florida State Fairgrounds last January lived up to its advertising hype of being the largest RV show in the world. Vendors filled three huge halls with exhibits. Outside the exhibition halls, organizers had compressed thousands of RVs... 
by rob@goodkarmadesigns.com | Oct 2, 2020 | Travel Stories
We forced ourselves to walk along the beach in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It felt compulsory since our RV park was just across Ocean Boulevard, with only sand dunes separating the road from the Atlantic Ocean. We were not beach people. Just to be able to say I’d done... 
by rob@goodkarmadesigns.com | Oct 2, 2020 | Travel Stories
“I know about yanking up roots,” I muttered under my breath, “but this is not how I wanted to do it.” “What’d you say?” My husband looked up from the newspaper, suddenly interested. I stood at the table’s end on the lanai, looking out at my orchid collection. I had... 
by rob@goodkarmadesigns.com | Oct 2, 2020 | Travel Stories
After two years of RV travel, I finally agreed to Michael’s broken-record pleas that we sell the house and go fulltime on the road in our RV. Now I faced the undeniable need to reduce our possessions by at least half. It was time to purge. Packing up all this stuff...