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The majority of 2022 had Check spending time with his parents in Montreal, and myself in North Carolina, volunteering at the Cradle of Forestry. It was a strange year, but it flew by quickly for me since I was busy running the Cradle Cafe. In November I left Weepy in NC and flew to Italy where we joined up again. We spent about six weeks in Sardegna, ...

Well, it's been a while since I've posted a blog. Time to get moving!

Check and I had decided to volunteer again here at the Cradle of Forestry for the fall session this year, as we did last year. Before we left, though, we talked with the manager, Christy, about our interest in running the cafe' if they were going to be able to open it ...

Ah, it's good to have friends.

We left the Cradle of Forestry on November 18th and headed south. We'd already had some freezing temperatures, and even snow!, in October and more was threatening to arrive the next day. Check had been wanting to revisit a friend who had built a paramotor simulator and now had a newer version. Rob is on the ...

Fall is here!

We are still at the Cradle of Forestry near the Blue Ridge Parkway where we are volunteering, or work-camping as some call it. The temperatures are cooling down nicely and the colors are starting to appear in our daily walks. As expected, we love being here as autumn settles into western North Carolina. The jobs here at the ...

Well, soon it will be fall again already. Summer went by fairly quickly, but it was a lot shorter than we had planned. The summer of 2021 for us has become the Summer of Breakdowns. Our air conditioning unit in the coach stopped working, the replacement propane regulator finally went belly-up (this was expected) and the trailer brakes stopped braking. ...