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Workamping Near The River Fun

by Herb & Kathy, posted in Family, Friends, Sightseeing, Traveling

On this particular Workamping gig, we work Thursday through Wednesday .. 7 days on duty and 7 days off duty.  At least one of us needs to be here at the park all 7 days, while the other can run into town for grocery shopping, a visit to the barber or other needs as they arise.

But on the 8th day … we’re free to take off and do as we please.  And this has been a wonderful benefit of Workamping.  We work about 3 hours each of the 7 days we’re on duty in exchange for our RV site, electricity, wifi, cable TV, heated pool and hot tub.

We have 2 weeks every month to come and go as we please and see the sights … and since we grew up here in Michigan and lived in Ohio the last 35 years before we hit the road, we’re fortunate enough to have friends and family visit.

Our first visitors were our daughter Sara and son in law Stu (along with Dulaney and Arlo)

Herb, Kathy, Dulaney, Sara, Stu, and of course .. Arlo

More recently we had a visit from my sister Betsy and brother in law Bob.  They live in the Virgin Islands and were up in the Detroit area visiting their sons and were able to take a couple days to come up to Pere Marquette RV Resort to visit us.

Herb, Kathy, Bob and Betsy

My other sister Marilynn lives in Jacksonville and it’s always great to hook up with family and our visits are too far and few between.

Marilynn’s husband Rick was at work

 

 

 

This time we took a rafting trip down the famous Pere Marquette River.  The river is 65 miles long and runs from Baldwin to Ludington and on out to Lake Michigan.  We traveled only about a half mile as the crow flies, but it took us just about two hours to go from the landing at Green Cottage to Gleason’s Landing.

The Pere Marquette River is know far and wide for it’s excellent Trout and Steelhead fishing and since much of the river is in the Manistee National Forest, there’s a lot of wildlife throughout the area.  The video below illustrates our relaxing ride.

So if you ever find an opportunity to visit northern Michigan, make a stop in Baldwin and take a great ride down the Pere Marquette River.  Baldwin Canoe Rental is the ONLY canoe rental on the PERMITTED portion of the river and they know what customer service is.  They’ll spot your car down the river so it’ll be there ready and waiting for you when you get to your appointed stop.

Tell ’em Herb & Kathy BALDWIN sent you … see if they’ll give you a discount (yea right)

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WOW! What a Blast – Friends We’ve Seen Along The Way

by Herb & Kathy, posted in Family, Friends, Sightseeing, Traveling

The reason (or so we thought) that we embarked on our full-time RV lifestyle on Labor Day of 2016 was to fulfill our desire to travel and see as much of this beautiful country of ours that we could.

We’ve seen a lot of sites since then, but there’s still so much more to go and we could spend a lot more time in any specific area to allow us to explore more deeply, so it’s very likely we’ll be going back again to many places in future years to do so.

A HIDDEN BENEFIT

But what has really turned out to be a wonderful benefit of traveling and not being on a “vacation” type schedule (running from place to place) is that we’ve been able to meet up with and spend time with family and “old” friends (not to say they are OLD by any means!).

This blog post features some pictures of those we’ve met up with along the way. Some are “NEW” friends and some are our “OLD” friends.

Unfortunately, although I had every intention of taking a “selfie” of us altogether at every meetup, we occasionally parted company without remembering to shoot a pix, so I’m listing those folks as well.  If I’ve missed you in this post, I apologize.  If you’re reading this and you can send me a picture of yourself, I’d really appreciate it.  My email address is herbsells@gmail.com

I know many of you won’t know any of these folks, but I also know it’ll be fun for those that are in the pictures to see some of the others and remember times past along with the brief time we spent together in the last year or so.

I’m going to post the pictures into a collage, you will be able to click on any individual photo to enlarge that particular picture to see a “zoomed in” view.  The zoomed-in view will also let you see a brief description of who they are and our relationship.

Known Sandy since 2nd grade, Jeff since high school, saw them at Wixom MI May ’17
Frank and Lora, an old neighbor (late 70’s) we saw at Brooklyn, MI May of ’17
Eric & Nancy, (Jaycees) since 1972 we saw at Wixom, MI May ’17
Tim, (Jaycees) since 1971 met at his flower shop at Ypsilant MI May of ’17
Mike (high school), Linda (Kathy’s sister) & their youngins Eric and Lindsey – May of ’17
Brian (High School) and his wife Connie at Spring Lake, MI May ’17
Mike and Kim, best friends in Mt Gilead (since 1984) came to visit us at Baldwin, MI July ’17
Norm & Alice (worked @ Xerox w/ Norm) friends since 1973 we visited @ Ludington State Park Aug ’17
Donna & William, just met at Baldwin, MI summer of ’17
Charlie & Mary, fish-fry experts (Baldwin, MI) summer of ’17
Joanne & Chuck, (Baldwin, MI), they’re our Road Tripper partners, summer of ’17
Larry and Darlene, met at RV Rally Vermont July ’16 Came to visit us in Baldwin July ’17
Cathy & Avery, met at RV Rally Vermont July ’16 came to visit us summer of ’17
Dave (friends since the 60’s) & Judy, we met in mid-Michigan summer of ’17
Tom, friends since grade school, met up in Galveston Dec ’17 after 40+ years
Dale used to work with me at Coldwell Banker Ohio, now he’s a Ranger at the Alamo
Jan and Roger gave us their driveway to park in overnight in Randall, Kansas
Barb, our new dear friend in Arizona winter of ’16
Cheryl & Phil, we met in AZ and had dinner together many times (including Christmas Day)
Elaine and Don (I worked with Don at Xerox in Detroit in the 70’s, we bumped into them in Summerdale, AL and again in Heiskell, TN
My sister Marilynn and husband Rick, met them near Pensacola for dinner
Our daughter Sara, we stop in Ohio twice a year to catch up
Our son David enjoying a wedding with us
Cindy and Steve, new friends in AZ
Our new friend Barb in AZ
Met up with Dave & Robyn at Crestview, FL (I’ve known Dave since 2nd Grade)
Met up w/ Ed & Sandy at Jacksonville, (Ed was my 1st new friend when we moved to Redford Twp in 1961)
George was my best buddy in Detroit back in late 50’s, we hadn’t talked since 1960 when my family moved
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Merry Christmas from Herb & Kathy

by Herb & Kathy, posted in Family, Friends

Here’s a little video to bring a smile to your face and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous and Happy New Year.

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Baldwin Family Niagara Falls Trip August, 2012

by Herb & Kathy, posted in Family

Here’s some pix of our Baldwin Family trip to Niagara Falls in August of 2012. Some pix are better than others.

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94th Annual Gymanfu Ganu @ Homer, Ohio

by Herb & Kathy, posted in Blogging, Family

Kathy, David, and I had the pleasure of attending the 94th Annual Gymanfu Ganu in Gomer, Ohio on Sunday evening, October 2nd, 2011. Gomer is a Welsh settlement founded in 1833 by Mr.’s Watkins, Roberts, and Nicholas. Click on the arrow in the center of the YouTube video below:

The Welsh Congregational Church, founded in 1873, in Gomer hosted the songfest and we had an oppotunity to visit the Welsh Heritage Museum across the street from the church.

Here is a slideshow of some of the pix I took before and during the Gymanfu Ganu (songfest). Just click on the picture and then you’ll be taken to an online Picasa photo album. You can then click on individual pictures or on “slide show”

Gymanfu Ganu, 94th Annual
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