Trippin' with Susan Straley

Greetings from Steve's Kitchen in Hernando, Florida. We have been getting ready for six months of travel.  We have planned our summer and fall journey. I have made the reservations.  I wrote everything down in my calendar and on a spread sheet.  But I still worry that I missed something or... I don't know what.  I just worry... but not a lot.  Like when I am recording our bike trip in the Puglia area of Italy onto the spread sheet.  We used Tripsite.com to book the tour.  They sent a list of the days and where we would be each day (not the specific lodging location yet, but the towns).  And their listed days didn't line up with my listed days and I could feel the panic rise as I tried to remain calm and figure it out.  I figured it out.  It is all good. I have packed up my stuff and moved much of it over to Steve's and moved out of my Condo.  It isn't rented out yet, but I hope to rent out the condo furnished again this summer....

 Hello!  Long time no write.  I have missed you! I turned 72 this week.  I am fortunate to be one of the active and mobile seniors.  Though my feet snap and crackle when I first get up, and my back demands constant attention to good posture, stretching  and strengthening. I love that I can still walk, get up and down off the floor with ease (most the time), and bike.  I am blessed and grateful for it. We are traveling again.  This time with Steve's truck and trailer.  And the highlight of our trip just happened two days ago.  So read on, skim, or skip.  There are a lot of pictures. **** We left Florida just a week after our plane landed from Europe.  (To read about our trip to the Netherlands, Germany, and the Czech Republic, start here .)  We packed up the trailer and headed out, taking two short travel days to get to Charlotte, NC where we visited our Florida bike and brewery friends, Ann and Jim. We parked and slept in ...