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Dates below are NOT in chronological order. Scroll down to check out all events. Pick and choose, mark your calendar
APRIL 30-MAY 3, WISCONSIN. Drive the River Road to shop the 100-Mile Garage Sale. Residents and stores clean out their attics, garages and basements to create a spectacular 100-mile garage sale along the Mississippi River. The trail is marked with distinctive colored ribbons from Fountain City on the southern end of the Wisconsin side, north along Wisconsin Highway 35 to Prescott, through Cochrane, Alma, Nelson, Pepin, Stockholm, Maiden Rock, Bay City and Diamond Bluff.
MAY 9, Cape May, NEW JERSEY. The Sip Into Spring Festival with its Crafts and Collectibles Show fills the showplace grounds of the historic Physick Estate with an outdoor marketplace of arts, crafts, foods, drinks, families and good times. See demonstrations. Listen to music. Sample wines, beers and spirits. Admission is free.
MARCH 28, Elberta, ALABAMA The volunteer fire department in this tiny southern town holds its German Sausage Festival twice a year, a benefit that attracts foodies from all over the South to sample 6,000 pounds of a famous sausage tradition. Try sausage dogs with sauerkraut, run a 5K, hear music, dance the polka, shop the vendors and hang out with nice folks. Other foods for sale include German style filled cabbage, potato salad, goulash, red beans and rice, hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ sandwiches, ice cream, popcorn and baked goods. Elberta is about an hour west of Pensacola, Florida via U.S. 98.
March 7-8. 14-15, Mansfield, OHIO.
The Malabar Farm Maple Syrup Festival, held noon-4p.m. each day is free
but do bring money to buy maple fudge and other treats in the gift shop
and to make a donation to the Central Ohio Draft Horse Association.
Walk the 300-acre state park, take a carriage ride, see costumed
characters as they re-create early Ohio farm life during sugaring-off
season.
MARCH 7-8, Las Cruses, NEW MEXICO.
Bring the whole family to the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Museum to pay
tribute to New Mexico’s ranching traditions at the Cowboy Days festival.
Enjoy cowboy demonstrations, chuck wagon cooking, cowboy music, pony
rides, children’s activities, roping and riding demonstrations, dancing,
cowboy poets and storytellers.
Provision
your boat, camper or home pantry with supermarket staples for
emergencies both bad (power outage) and good (surprise visitors).
This
isn't about high-priced survival
rations but about delicious ways to prepare stowed foods. Tips on all
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BE PREPARED for the next power outage, hurricane, ice storm, flood, fire or other natural threat at home and away, ashore and afloat.
TRAVELERS LOVE A COZY TRAVEL STORY
January Justice, a Yacht Yenta Mystery by Farley Halladay, takes you from sailing the Caribbean to the dark secrets of a Florida retirement community. Meet Farley and her scrappy dog Scuppers as they help the sheriff, Danielle Dassault, solve crimes.
FOLLOW THE SUN AND TRAVEL in a
self-contained home on wheels. We take an honest look at the
full-timing lifestyle, warts and all, based on our own 10 ten years on the
go, earning a
living along the way.
Living Aboard Your RV, 4th Edition, starts with choosing and furnishing the right rig for full-timing and covers all the bases including easing back out of that life when and if the time comes. Paperback or e-book http://amzn.to/29XFEkq
Travel from the dark secrets of a Florida retirement community to the seven seas with Janet Groene's latest "cozy" mystery.
March Malice is Book Three in the Yacht Yenta mystery e-book series by Farley Halladay, travelwriter Janet Groene's pen name.
A
beloved dog dies in her arms, her best friend is having the hives over
an old boyfriend and dear old Cap Kowalski is taken hostage. Farley copes, cooks and cusses her way
through Book 3 in this salty yarn. March Malice https://amzn.to/2BCkacN
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Janet
Groene is a professional travelwriter, author of more than 25 books and
thousands of magazine and newspaper features. She blogs at multiple sites on
travel, travel food, camping, yachting
and cruising. Dates below are NOT in chronological order. Scroll down to check out all events. Pick and choose, mark your calendar
APRIL 30-MAY 3, WISCONSIN. Drive the River Road to shop the 100-Mile Garage Sale. Residents and stores clean out their attics, garages and basements to create a spectacular 100-mile garage sale along the Mississippi River. The trail is marked with distinctive colored ribbons from Fountain City on the southern end of the Wisconsin side, north along Wisconsin Highway 35 to Prescott, through Cochrane, Alma, Nelson, Pepin, Stockholm, Maiden Rock, Bay City and Diamond Bluff.
MAY 9, Cape May, NEW JERSEY. The Sip Into Spring Festival with its Crafts and Collectibles Show fills the showplace grounds of the historic Physick Estate with an outdoor marketplace of arts, crafts, foods, drinks, families and good times. See demonstrations. Listen to music. Sample wines, beers and spirits. Admission is free.
MARCH 28, Elberta, ALABAMA The volunteer fire department in this tiny southern town holds its German Sausage Festival twice a year, a benefit that attracts foodies from all over the South to sample 6,000 pounds of a famous sausage tradition. Try sausage dogs with sauerkraut, run a 5K, hear music, dance the polka, shop the vendors and hang out with nice folks. Other foods for sale include German style filled cabbage, potato salad, goulash, red beans and rice, hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ sandwiches, ice cream, popcorn and baked goods. Elberta is about an hour west of Pensacola, Florida via U.S. 98. 
March 7-8. 14-15, Mansfield, OHIO.
The Malabar Farm Maple Syrup Festival, held noon-4p.m. each day is free
but do bring money to buy maple fudge and other treats in the gift shop
and to make a donation to the Central Ohio Draft Horse Association.
Walk the 300-acre state park, take a carriage ride, see costumed
characters as they re-create early Ohio farm life during sugaring-off
season.
MARCH 7-8, Las Cruses, NEW MEXICO.
Bring the whole family to the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Museum to pay
tribute to New Mexico’s ranching traditions at the Cowboy Days festival.
Enjoy cowboy demonstrations, chuck wagon cooking, cowboy music, pony
rides, children’s activities, roping and riding demonstrations, dancing,
cowboy poets and storytellers.http://amzn.to/1WdYqbe
BE PREPARED for the next power outage, hurricane, ice storm, flood, fire or other natural threat at home and away, ashore and afloat.
TRAVELERS LOVE A COZY TRAVEL STORY
January Justice, a Yacht Yenta Mystery by Farley Halladay, takes you from sailing the Caribbean to the dark secrets of a Florida retirement community. Meet Farley and her scrappy dog Scuppers as they help the sheriff, Danielle Dassault, solve crimes.
- Farley may be a beached sailor and grieving widow but she's a lifelong yachtie, salt cured and sassy. Available in all e-book formats.
- Order for Kindle at https://amzn.to/2XqCl1y
- Then read Book Two, February Felony
- https://amzn.to/31J5d3D
FOLLOW THE SUN AND TRAVEL in a
self-contained home on wheels. We take an honest look at the
full-timing lifestyle, warts and all, based on our own 10 ten years on the
go, earning a
living along the way. Living Aboard Your RV, 4th Edition, starts with choosing and furnishing the right rig for full-timing and covers all the bases including easing back out of that life when and if the time comes. Paperback or e-book http://amzn.to/29XFEkq
March Malice is Book Three in the Yacht Yenta mystery e-book series by Farley Halladay, travelwriter Janet Groene's pen name.
A
beloved dog dies in her arms, her best friend is having the hives over
an old boyfriend and dear old Cap Kowalski is taken hostage. Farley copes, cooks and cusses her way
through Book 3 in this salty yarn. March Malice https://amzn.to/2BCkacN
