Author: Julia

I am a retired software solutions architect. I have been married to my husband, Bruce, for over forty years. We went full-time RVing for 3.5 years and saw much of the United States. After deciding to stop RVing, we bought a ranch house halfway up a hill on five acres. After Bruce and I talked about names for our five acres, we settled on Blackberry Homestead as a homage to the wild blackberries on the hill. We are working on creating our homestead. I love cooking and enjoy sharing recipes. I am also an artist, and I’ll share my current projects. Gardening and reading are my favorite hobbies.

Truck Alignment Fine, Needed a New Tire

April 22, 2023 If you are following our journey, you know we recently left Alabama to go to Louisiana. We discovered a tire problem as we went through our checklist. We replaced the failing tire with the spare tire. On Monday (April 17), Bruce called around and found a place that would do a tire […]

Boudin Festival in Scott, Louisiana

April 21, 2023 On Sunday (April 16), we woke late due to the thunderstorm during the night. The campground has a free breakfast every Saturday and Sunday. We got dressed and headed over to try the breakfast. They had run out of waffle batter and sausage. Bruce fried an egg while I made toast for […]

Poor Little Nox, Scared of Thunder

April 20, 2023 On April 16, after we arrived at Frog City RV Park in Duson, LA, we enjoyed blue skies with white fluffy clouds. We got the RV set up and walked Nox around the park. They have a dog park and Nox stayed close to us while we walked around inside the dog […]

Getting to Frog City RV Park in Dustin, LA

April 18, 2023 On Saturday (April 15), we got up and took Nox for a walk. We closed up the RV and left our overnight Harvest Host spot around 9:15 am. We easily pulled back onto west I-10 and headed to Louisiana. We had a small amount of rainfall as we drove through Mississippi. We […]

Broke Camp and Headed Out for an Overnight Stay at a Harvest Host in Mississippi

April 16, 2023 On Wednesday (April 12), we drove to the Oasis Travel Center down the road to fill up the truck with diesel. It is an amusing place and the Derailed Dinner has tasty food. On Thursday (April 13), we started our checklist. While Bruce was outside, one of our neighbors stopped by and […]

Invite to Lunch by Friends

April 14, 2023 On Friday (April 7), our friends Rick and Mary had us over for lunch in their RV. I made sourdough crackers to take as a hostess gift. We walked over to the Styx River RV Resort that they were staying in. It is right next to the Riverside RV Resort we are […]

A Ride with Friends to Fairhope, AL

April 13, 2023 On Monday (April 10), there was a knocking on our door. A new friend, Ann, from across the road stopped by to ask us, in her charming Irish accent, if we’d like to join them for a ride. That sounded fun to us. The weather was beautiful, sunny skies in the 60s […]

Blog Comments Missing in Notifications

April 13, 2023 I was on Jetpack reviewing my blog and getting pictures loaded for my next post. In the process, I discovered over twenty comments on my blog posts that I hadn’t seen. I wasn’t ignoring you, I just didn’t know there were additional comments. I’ll try to remember to also look at pending […]

The Strawberry Festival in Loxley, AL

April 11, 2023 It poured rain most of Saturday (April 8, 2023), so we spent the day inside the RV instead of going to the Strawberry Festival, On Sunday, the rain had stopped. It was a cool (in the 50s degrees F) day. I still wanted to go to the Strawberry Festival at the Loxley […]

Random Things Bruce Does

April 9, 2023 First off, Happy Easter! Last week, Bruce decided to create a trip in RV Life with all our stops since we picked up our RV from Couch’s RV in Hamilton, Ohio. I helped with his madness by looking at my blog and telling him were we where during the trip. Would you […]