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.

Columbus Riverwalk in Georgia

November 10, 2022 Yesterday, we started our Riverwalk on the Alabama side in Phenix City. We crossed over to the Columbus Georgia side of the river on the large pedestrian bridge. On the upstream side of the bridge, from the bridge we could see an arch that says Columbus Riverwalk. Once across the bridge, I […]

Phenix City Riverwalk in Alabama

November 10, 2022 I wanted to see the Columbus Riverwalk in Georgia, so yesterday (November 9), we headed over to Historic District in Columbus. Once in the Historic District, we started looking for parking, but the parking garages weren’t designed for a 22 foot long dually truck. Other parking lots were reserved and we didn’t […]

Fallen Fall Leaves

November 8, 2022 One day last week, we had the door to the RV open, enjoying the weather. I was reading and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a leaf flutter from the door to the floor. Having seen beautiful some pictures that A Year of Kayaking posted of fallen leaves, I […]

Ellerslie Park in Harris County Georgia

November 7, 2022 This morning, we rode the motorcycle to Pop’s Place. It is a cafeteria style restaurant with good home style Southern cooking. After eating, Bruce asked me if I wanted to do anything. I said, “Let me check the attractions in this area.” Nothing came up, so I agreed to just go home. […]

Sitting by the Campfire

November 6, 2022 Since the Lake Pines Campground allows campers to use fallen limbs and pine cones for campfires, Bruce and I thought it would be fun to have a campfire. On Friday (November 4), I picked up fallen sticks from the woods behind our campsite and placed them near our rock campfire ring. In […]

Sitting by the Campfire

Ant Invasions

November 6, 2022 I don’t normally mind ants, as long as they aren’t the evil fire ants, but I don’t like them in my RV. We’ve had three ant invasions since we started RVing. The first invasion was while we were at Poverty Point State Park in Louisiana. The ants climbed up the water hose […]

Flat Rock Park in Columbus, Georgia

November 4, l2022 Yesterday (November 3), Bruce, Nox, and I went to a local park. It is interesting park, called Flat Rock Park and once you enter the park, it is easy to see how it got its name. There is a one way road through the park that loops you back to an exit […]

Campsite Visitor

November 1, 2022 I looked out the campsite kitchen window and saw this!

From Pine Mountain RV Resort to Pine Lake RV Campground in Columbus, Georgia

November 1, 2022 On Sunday (October 30), we went through our check list so we could pull out of Pine Mountain RV Resort. Our neighbor was kind enough to move his truck so we could safely pull out. We made it out by 10:30 am. We drove the short distance to Pine Lake RV Campground […]