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Ice Cream and Friends

Ice Cream and Friends

Another fun day of hanging out, greeting more old friends, meeting new friends, entertaining folks in our 400. This evening Elsie & Sarah joined us for a quick dinner here before we all went to the Ice Cream Social. Afterwards several people came by to visit...

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T@B Tours, Wine, Cheese, and a Quest

T@B Tours, Wine, Cheese, and a Quest

Today was the official arrival day for üCamp17. It's been great fun greeting old friends, meeting new friends, and giving tours of our trailer as representative of nüCamp's newest offering. Then tonight we joined the gang riding a shuttle bus over to The Barn to...

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Cornbread Salad

Cornbread Salad

Our friends Sarah and Elsie invited the two of us and Amanda to savor the sunset and to share a dinner with them. What a treat! We relished the relaxation and the quiet thoughtful conversation. After an amazing but crazy afternoon getting set up at least part of the...

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Names and Faces

Names and Faces

One of the delights of the teardrop rally in Ohio each summer is putting names and faces together. We're nearly all members of an online forum designed to share T@B information and enthusiasm. As we meet people here we introduce ourselves not only by name but by...

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Breakfast at TimberCrest

Breakfast at TimberCrest

It wasn't planned, it just happened. As the morning progressed we five wandered out of our three teardrop campers carrying our bowls of cereal and mugs of morning beverage and gathered around a picnic table to tell tales of T@B adventures and misadventures. It's been...

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Kindred Spirits 

Kindred Spirits 

A reunion is a wonderful thing. When we learned Amanda would be arriving this afternoon in anticipation of üCamp17 next week, we made a point to be at Winklepleck when she arrived. We met at last year's gathering when she was a brand new T@Bber and immediately liked...

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T@Bbers Together 

T@Bbers Together 

When we booked our site here at TimberCrest we asked to be near friends that we knew would be staying here this weekend. Jasper arrived Friday and we've enjoyed time with him late last night and today including a delightful trip to Baltic Mill Winery where we savored...

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New Philadelphia Adventures 

New Philadelphia Adventures 

Today we headed to the "big city" of New Philadelphia, the county seat of Tuscarawas County. At a population of about seventeen thousand it's big enough to provide an array of goods and services. We enjoyed a down home lunch at Michael's Restaurant before heading...

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A Tabitha Neighbor 

A Tabitha Neighbor 

Our home for the next three nights is TimberCrest RV Park in Walnut Creek deep in the heart of Ohio's Amish country. Adventures today included a great breakfast at Wallhouse Coffee, Red Raspberry Ice Cream at Dover Road Dari, some yummy Cold Brew Iced Coffee at New...

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The National Road and Zane Grey Museum

The National Road and Zane Grey Museum

It's a little museum in Zanesville, Ohio with a big story to tell. Actually three big stories. This city of about twenty-five thousand people was founded in 1790s as a result of Ebenezer Zane's building of a road, Zane's Trace, connecting Wheeling WV and Maysville KY....

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Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.

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Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museum

London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.

London’s Canals

London’s Canals

The two of us have long been fascinated with the history of canals and their role in the history of transportation, industrialization, and more recently recreation. This stay in London has given us new opportunities to explore and learn more about how canals contributed to the growth of this great city and how they are being used and preserved today.

National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery

It was a most educational visit to the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery at Trafalgar Square in Central London. We were intrigued with the contemporary approach to presenting British History.