The bike is built and the shakedown rides are completed (3 of them). I’m very happy with the way it turned out. I modified Emily’s old ’90s model Specialized Hard Rock mountain bike. It should be a fine starter bike for me to do a few overnight trips. This will help me see if doing …
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Back To My Hometown (Springfield, TN) Hunting The Bell Witch
Somehow my travels led me back to my hometown, Springfield TN, for a long weekend. I decided while I was there I’d do a little Bell Witch hunting. I’d watch movies and read books to learn about her evil ways. Then I’d go to Adams, TN to visit some sites. I was going to find …
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Tenet: Your 20s Are For Wealth Building
https://x.com/VisualCap/status/1820807312426037545 This link contains a great little graphic that shows the power of early life savings…be sure to pause it right at the end and take in the final results. Look how important the 20s are! Just like when ya’ll were little kids, remember saving a little (or a lot) can add up quickly. Get …
Our Last TN State Park (Big Ridge SP) AND Max’s Graduation
Lots of stuff wrapped up on this weekend of RV’ing! We visited our last Tennessee State Park (Big Ridge State Park). With this last one we’ve visited all 58 Tennessee State Parks. We started RV’ing several years ago. It has been a lot of fun! This marks a BHAG (Big, Hairy, Audacious, Goal) off my …
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Kayaking To Burgess Falls State Park’s Beautiful Waterfall
Burgess Falls State Park 2.0! We’ve visited this magnificent Tennessee waterfall from the top several times (on foot). We’ve never kayaked to it to see it from the bottom. At 136 feet tall (and at least that wide) it is absolutely beautiful. It has to be among the top waterfalls in Tennessee. It is a …
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Disney’s Magic Kingdom
We spent a full day chasing every ride at the best of the DisneyWorld theme parks, Magic Kingdom. I know it is the best because it had one of the best rides ever (Splash Mountain RIP) and because they sell Orange Fanta / Dole Whip Floats. Since I had two of those in our day …
True “Inflation”
“Inflation is a vector, not a scalar. Ignore the abstraction at your own risk. Inflation is the rise in price of every single item for sale across a market, not just the “basket” of goods selected to be a good example, and subject to adjustment and correction over time.” –Michael Saylor “If the currency isn’t …
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
We spent a day with Emmaline and Zach at Animal Kingdom. It had been a few years since we’d been there. Adult Disney with adult children is still fun (maybe more fun)! We also explored the real Florida kingdom on its oldest scenic boat tour (in Winter Park).
4 Awesome Waterfalls at Virgin Falls State Natural Area (Sparta, TN)
We spent a day waterfall hunting at Virgin Falls State Natural Area. It was a long day of hiking (10+ miles and 30k+ steps). It was worth every step, however. Tons of water was flowing across all four of the waterfalls we visited. My favorite waterfall wasn’t even Virgin Falls. The water in the creek …
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Lots Of Hiking At Frozen Head State Park (Wartburg, TN)
Frozen Head State Park was our second-to-last TN state park. It has been on my list for a while (since it is a hiker’s state park). It has about 50 miles of hiking trails. We knocked out 20 miles of those while there. It also was towards the end of the Tennessee state park list …
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