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About ralph

Just another blog to share some thoughts with the world. Want to comment? If you know how to contact me, I can manually set up a commenting account for you. Sorry, commenting is not open to the general public at this time.

Back to Water Valley Campground

Posted on Wednesday, 2021-Oct-20th by ralph

Getting out of the house into the RV in a rush had left me with unfinished business in Calgary. So, after one night north out of town visiting a friend, I was driving back in for one such task, taking … Continue reading →

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A little visit, a little camping, a lot of organizing

Posted on Saturday, 2021-Oct-16th by ralph

I surveyed the mess below me from my bed in the RV – everything I needed to make coffee was somewhere in this pile, or randomly stuffed in a cupboard. But coffee being a high priority item in packing had … Continue reading →

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Getting out in time

Posted on Tuesday, 2021-Oct-12th by ralph

The last day dawned with me not being in my house. This was planned, as part of my junk removal had been to throw out my mattress – too worn to be worth bothering to store at this point. But … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing My Sticks and Bricks

Posted on Wednesday, 2021-Oct-6th by ralph

With a week to go to be out of my house, it dawned on me that I wasn’t nearly as far along on purging and packing stuff as I should be. Progress had been made – empty spots were starting … Continue reading →

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Chaos complete

Posted on Friday, 2021-Oct-1st by ralph

Typing on my phone sucks, so this is going to be a brief real time update. After much rushing and chaos, I am out of my house and in my RV. I an not breathing a deep sigh of relief … Continue reading →

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The long RV adventure begins

Posted on Tuesday, 2021-Sep-21st by ralph

“Star Trek” sucked me in as a kid – people traveling to unknown destinations, seeing things no human had seen before intrigued me. I also liked reading old adventure magazines that told tales of exploring the deep jungles of the … Continue reading →

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Leaving the Desert

Posted on Wednesday, 2021-Aug-25th by ralph

My before dawn rising to head to the airport is probably overkill, but I’ve seen enough of Phoenix’s traffic jams that I’m not taking any chances. At any rate, I’m up in the predawn, a few minutes before the continental … Continue reading →

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Covid Interuptis Walk

Posted on Sunday, 2020-Apr-19th by ralph

I’m not quite done talking about my adventure to the desert, but the latest post is taking longer to gel. My muse is more difficult to understand than usual. But in the meanwhile while we are all COVID-19 isolated, I … Continue reading →

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RV-less in Phoenix for a night

Posted on Monday, 2020-Mar-30th by ralph

I have left my RV behind, walking down the sidewalk with my luggage in tow. It is a warm afternoon and I am starting to sweat a bit with the exertion. My plan was to hit the Motel 6 at … Continue reading →

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De-RVing

Posted on Thursday, 2020-Mar-26th by ralph

I had arrived back from Hells Half Acre later than I had hoped. It now was time to start the process I had come to think of as “de-RVing”. That meant getting everything ready to return my RV, retaining only … Continue reading →

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