2026-06-03

It’s fun to run across John’s stuff in the wild

This was a random gas station in the middle of nowhere.  He printed the tea add as one of his batch jobs they get.  
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Zoe trying desperately to restrain herself from the goose babies…

She gave in and jumped for it… To no avail, hahahaha.

It was fun stopping at fishing spots along the way

Zoe is always right in the middle of whatever we were doing.  At this moment, she is VERY intently watching the goose family swimming in the distance…
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It was fun to pull the camper along

These were some of the lesser maintained roads we hit along the way.
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Great vibes camping on the GOAT

Johnny made me dinner on the fire AND got some cool foggy mountain pics on our trip a couple weekends ago❣️
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2026-06-02

Lookout!

We found this cool lookout tower in our campground at the end of GOAT segment 3.  We decided we needed to climb it and see the view.  Here you can see me contemplating that climb… 

John said I looked a lot like Andy (or vice versa)
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The off-road adventures of Johnny and David

We slide into the swampy ditch and spawned a turtle from the jeep wheel…! We couldn’t stop laughing… Luckily, I could put it in 4WD, turn on the lockers and pull us and trailer back up out of it…



The road’s closed, let’s find out why?!

While Johnny and I were on the GOAT trail two weekends ago, we came upon a closed road when we came around the corner. The hill had experienced a mud slide and they were just finishing picking up most of the debris… They saw our rig and waved us up to try and get through. When we got to the flagger, he said, “Looks like you have the right machine for it, give it a try”! We put the Jeep in 4WD and went on our merry way. It was kind of crazy how much of the hill had melted down into the road after all the recent rain!

Julie gave me this adorable bottle of one of her perfumes

She has a few she rotates through that are my faves.
Juicy couture
Beautiful
Ysatis
L’Imperatrice


 

Julie and I had a special night of Raman!

Wagyu beef, garlic, green onions and an egg.  It was really yummy! They served the cutest little desserts too!  We’ve always wanted to try authentic Japanese noodles together.  We came close in Hong Kong, but never did.  So we were happy to find this place in Kettering. A night of “put a little life into living”. 
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2026-06-01

Still drying out…

Wet dog thinks she belongs in my lap…
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70,000 pics and counting…

…and THAT’s just the good ones I wanna keep.

I think I have this half of the US represented pretty well.
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Itty Bitty wants in on the blogging action too…

Actually, she just wants to be fed… Again!  That’s three times in the same week, hahahahaha.
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Zoe insisting on helping me blog…

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Going for a walk in spite of the rain last week.

The dog’s enthusiasm wasn’t crimped in the slightest bit.  Funny thing is though, Chloe has to stop walking to shake off the water.  Zoe just shakes as she keeps walking. Haha.
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