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.

Jacksonville N/St. Mary’s KOA Holiday in Kingsland, Georgia

March 10, 2022 We are now set up at the St. Mary’s KOA in Georgia. We are just barely in Georgia as the campground is off Exit 1 on I-95. It is a very pretty campground with lots of pine trees. The rather expensive site doesn’t have a sewer hookup or 50 amp. It only […]

Moving to St Mary’s KOA in Georgia

March 10, 2022 I am posting from the truck as we are traveling. We’ve packed up the rig and we are on the road to the KOA at St Mary’s in Georgia. We will be there for the rest of March. Lesson learned. March is spring break and families fill up the coastal campground. We […]

Nox Doing Nox Things

March 6, 2022 Yesterday, we walked to the close dog park in Red Oaks RV Resort (Bushnell, Florida). We keep her in the small dogs section. Nox loves playing in this park. She finds interesting smells. Later, Nox spread one of her towels out in the middle of the living room. She laid on it […]

Evening Walk and Frogs

March 4, 2022 The other day, Bruce was riding back to the RV and saw a spectacular sunset. The sun was a large orange ball as it sank below the horizon. He wanted me to get a chance to see the sunset from the same vantage point, so the next day, we walked to a […]

Nox Does Need a License!

March 3, 2022 After Bruce mentioned that Nox wouldn’t need a license, one of Bruce’s Florida friends told him that most Florida counties do require dog licenses. Bruce looked it up and we do need to get a license for Nox. The dog license is not done in the county courthouse complex or tax collector’s […]

Finished with Getting Ready for the Retirement RV Dream

March 2, 2022 With Cliff the big red truck, the motorcycle, and RV registered with their new Florida tags plus Bruce and I with our Florida driver’s licenses, we have now completed our move to Florida. We are using the Escapees park in Florida as our physical address and we are using the Escapees mail […]

And I Am Now Florida Woman!

March 2, 2022 It turns out Florida will let you use your passport, even if it has expired, to get your driver’s license. It can’t be expired more than five years. Luckily, my passport had expired in 2020, so I could use it to prove who I am. So, I didn’t need to bring my […]

Florida Titles and Registrations Completed

March 1, 2022 Today, we rode to the library and printed out our Florida insurance cards so we could finish our title work and registration. While we were there, Bruce got his library card. Afterwards, we rode to the tax collector’s office and got the motorcycle VIN verified. Since we had the truck’s VIN verified […]

New Driver’s License for Bruce

February 28, 2022 We had been waiting on our new Florida address before we could move forward with getting our Florida driver’s licenses. Here’s the story so far. Escapees sent the email with our new address via email last week on Tuesday. Bruce didn’t get it until Sunday. It appears his email service was having […]

Put Up Day Clock

February 27, 2022 Today, I spent some time going through my retirement gifts from my co-workers. I rediscovered the keychain given to me. I also picked out a place to install the Day Clock my director gave me. The Day Clock looks very nice on my hall wall!