Tag: Tennessee
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Hurricane Helene & Our Community
We love many things about living in the mountains, but our favorite part has been the humans. Salt of the earth, genuine, authentic kind of humans. The 3 days leading up to Hurricane Helene hitting the area brought us 7.61″ of rain. THEN the hurricane rains came. Good for us, bad for the NC side,…
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Fall Colors 2024
One of the benefits of living in the mountains is we get to watch the beauty of the Fall colors as the leaves change from the top of the mountain down. With so much destruction in the area from the rains before and during Hurricane Helene, it was nice to get out and enjoy the…
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Jonesborough Garden Tour
Jonesborough is the oldest town in Tennessee and they always have something going on. It is the center for the International Storytelling Festival where THOUSANDS come to enjoy the stories shared. I saw that there was a Garden Gala happening and just had to check it out. I reached out to my friend, Jessica, and…
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Shell-less Turtle
Shell-less Turtle It’s been too long for us not to send out an update, but in our defense, we have been out of sorts. Can you tell what is missing here? Yes, it’s Maverick. Maverick has been gone for 7 weeks! Pearl is missing her other half! Back in May, we shared that Maverick needed…
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Ride the Wave
The mountain wave, that is. I BRIEFLY mentioned the unique weather here on the side of Mt. Tabor, but we had another HUGE weather event and Greg has done a lot more research that we wanted to share. What is a mountain wave? That’s a great question. A mountain wave is when wind hits a…
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Food is My Love Language: Week 1 – Burgers
I love food. Not quite as much as Guy Fieri, though I enjoying trying new things (mostly). Let’s be honest, I enjoy trying new recipes and cooking at home more than just trying new restaurants. There is something to be said about taking something that looks mouth-watering in the magazine picture and making it your…
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Sumac Update
During our full experience into the area, I had a close encounter with fallen Sumac leaves. It has been 2 weeks, so I wanted to give an update. The first week was absolute hell. I won’t go back through the details, but it was an unpleasant experience. The second week I was pumped full of…
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Full-time RVing… it’s not an extra long vacation
…much to my disappointment, lol. I had ‘retired’ and was all in for this months-long vacation, that hasn’t happened yet. However, Greg was still working, so I thought we were doing this wrong. We have now been a part of this lifestyle for 6 months, and have learned so much from experience and from others.…
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Getting the full experience
While we came out to this area in the Fall and stayed for 2.5 months, we never took any of the steps to become residents. Realizing our shortfall, we jumped in with both feet as soon as we got back to Greene County. Got my TN license, changed over the vehicle insurance, and got the…
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Epic Fail?
I failed at retirement. I have come to the conclusion that retirement is harder than working. Well, I guess I only “kinda” retired, so I only “kinda” failed. Greg didn’t retire at all, so he is still working 8-10 hour days. It’s not fun being retired without him! I can only read so much without…
Chasing Adventure 