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A Winning Evening
One of my hopes for our Great American Adventure is for my children to grow closer together. Family is forever whereas most friends come and go especially with being a military family.Tonight after supper, I watched my hope come to life. There’s a massive stage in a field next to where we camped and all…
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A checkbook! No ID, No Problems!
I woke up this morning to two kids with runny noses and coughs complaining of sore throats. Add to that a teething toddler who barely slept and it was a rough morning. However, I did find some kind souls who took pity on our situation. I was able to use Miss Drama’s ID card to…
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No ID, No Money… No Problems?
I am 100% convinced that God is using this trip to test my faith and my ability to cope with stress. We drove to Fort Fisher today from Fort Bragg and on the way stopped at Burger King to grab a bite to eat. We’d planned to just eat when we got there, but some…
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Lemonade out of Lemons
It’s hot, unbearably hot. We’ve spent the last month camping in Texas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and none of those places have been as horribly hot and humid as Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Know what else? There’s nowhere to swim! We’ve gone swimming almost everyday for the last 2 months and now when we need…
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Leaving the Smokies on a Sore Foot
We left the Smokies on a sad note today. The yellow jacket stings from yesterday left me still a bit incapacitated this morning. I was able to put some weight on the offending appendage, but the hikes I had planned for today were now totally out of the question.Thankfully, we didn’t see Mr. Park Ranger…
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Day 2 in the Smokies
I hate yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, mosquitoes – any insect of the stabbing your skin variety, but today especially yellow jackets are at the top of my list. The day started out in amazing fashion. We woke up, packed away the tent, ate some pancakes for breakfast, then headed out to get us some tubes.…
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Day 1 in the Smokies
Have I mentioned before how much I love America’s need for electrical outlets. I mean we pretty much put them everywhere. You may be wondering where I’m going with this trivial bit of info, but just bear with me. I’m getting to the importance of this American quirk. This morning we folded up the tent…
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Into the Smoky Mountains
I did it again friends. I tried to be the “cool” mom and do the “cool” thing and ended up putting up the tent at 9 o’clock at night in the parking lot of a National Park visitor center in a thunderstorm of epic proportions. Let’s go back a bit. Outlaw Offroad did an amazing…
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Ant Invasion
We’re heading out tomorrow, leaving South Carolina and heading up to Charlotte, North Carolina. We were supposed to head over to Fort Fisher on the coast, but a flat tire yesterday has us diverting. Outlaw Offroad (the garage who installed our rooftop tent in Alabama) also has a few locations in North Carolina, one of…
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Cool peeps and “cool mom” fails
Three campground in three days. Let’s just say we have become pros at unfolding and folding our tent. We’re taking a bit of a break now though and staying at Wateree Recreation Site for more than a few days, especially after yesterday. Before I get into that though, I want to give a shout out…
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My plans v. God’s plans
(written July 11) It’s quiet, the children are all still sleeping, and I’m enjoying a nice cup of tea while staring out at the lake. I’ve been thinking about how over the last few months nothing has gone the way I planned for it to. I’m thinking what we would have missed out on if the…
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Cooking in the rain
It didn’t rain last night like I wanted it to. Instead it downpoured this morning right as I started cooking breakfast. I blame the friendly neighborhood campground host Ron. He came by about 8am and said “It’s going to rain later today, probably start in a couple of hours or so.” He’d come by a…
