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COOL IT IN VERMONT THIS SUMMER

Set your GPS for Manchester, Vermont, July 12-14 to join the the Dead of Summer Music Festival. Headliners include Pink Talking Fish, Neighbor, Max Creek, Annie in the Water, Misty Blues and many more. Stay busy in the tie dye tent, yoga sessions, food trucks, family activities for kids. Children under 17 are free.  RV and tent camping is allowed if you have a three-day concert ticket. No car camping.  For details, tickets and camping packages see DeadOfSummerFestoval.com/
 

 

VIRGINIA is

FOR

THE BIRDS

   Bask in springtime sunshine at the Life’s Extra Birding Celebration in Marion, Virginia. It’s held at Hungry Mother State Park, May 3-5. Bring the family for programs,  talks, arts, networking. Get your fill of bird watching, photography and the outdoors. The park has cabins, yurts, lodges and three campgrounds.  To participate in the Celebration, pre-register ($) For information see (276) 781-7400 or email HungryMother@dcr.virginia.gov/   For camping or cabin reservations go to  resvs@dcr.virginia.gov or call 800-933-PARK (7275).

TAKE A SHOT AT NATURE

 

    Florida’s annual Birding & Photo Fest will be held April 24-28 on Anastasia Island, with side events at places including the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Marineland. Whether you’re a beginner or professional, or interested in landscape or portraits or night photography, there’s a workshop for you. A special event will bring horses to the surf for your camera. 

  Registration is $25. Workshops, most of them held in the field, are $25-$100 each.  www.floridasbirdingandphotofest.com  

 

APRIL SHOWERS BRING 

MYSTERY MURDERS
 

    Curl up in your camper tonight with book 4 in the Yacht Yenta “cozy” mystery series, April Avenger  by widow Farley Halladay. Once a sailor, Farley now operates an online boat booking business that lets her sail virtually all over the world. She shares her shortcut galley recipes throughout the books. As a grieving widow she is also a cook, caregiver and kickass crime solver. For Kindle, Nook, Google Play and most other ebook formats.   https://amzn.to/3EKgaoP   

    

 DISCOVER a UNIQUE FLORIDA PRAIRIE

 

 TAKE THE NIGHT TRAIN TO NASHVILLE

 

    Opening on April 26 and running through 2025  at the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is an exhibit on the R&B music scene, with newly discovered artifacts and photos. Honorees include Ray Charles, Hank Crawford, Bobby Hebb, Jimi Hendrix, Etta James, Little Richard and many more in the years 1945-1970.  Get tickets online for Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues Revisited. See CountryMusicHallOfFame.org/

 

 

 

 

JUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER’S DAY
    Does Mom dream of selling everything and traveling in her own home on wheels? Living Aboard Your RV, 4th Edition by Janet Groene & Gordon Groene is a total guide to the full-time life on wheels. Sell the house or rent it out while gone?  Downsize possessions or put them in storage? Too young to retire? There’s a chapter on ways to make a living anywhere. Kids on board? We cover home schooling. Order at any book store or let Amazon gift wrap and ship it for you.  https://amzn.to/29XFEkq 

 

 HEAR THE UNIQUE SOUNDS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC PLAYED UNDERGROUND

 

 BLUEGRASS GOES UNDERGROUND  
Hear top Bluegrass artists above ground and in The Caverns in Grundy County, Tennessee during the Big Mouth Bluegrass Festival August 17-18. Bring your own instrument for open jam sessions. Attend workshops. Camp on site, enjoy food trucks. Dates are August 17-18.  (931) 516-9724  

 

 GO TO GROUND AND CRAWL IN MUD

 Sound like fun?  On select dates in April and June, have a rare chance to see the underground world of Lookout Mountain at Cloudland Canyon State Park, Rising Fawn, Georgia.  With a park ranger as your guide you’ll crawl through mud, scramble over rocks and probably see some creepy-crawlies during the 2 1/2-hour tour.  Participants must be age 10 or better and in physical condition to wade streams and shimmy through 3-foot-high spaces. A waiver is required.  Call (706) 657-4050 to reserve your space for Sitter’s Cave Adventures. The cost is $45 per person plus $5 parking.
 

SURVIVAL FOOD HANDBOOK SAVES THE DAY when you're out of fresh food. Whether it's fridge failure or you're broke or quarantined or weathered in, it's a guide to provisioning information, lists, tips and recipes made solely with stowed foods available from supermarkets.  Create a standby pantry for your home, boat, cabin or camper with familiar, affordable staples.

Kindle or paperback, it's a great gift idea for yourself or a friend.  https://amzn.to/3mIfryC 

 

 

 SEE JEFF FOXWORTHY LIVE!

 

Save the date. On June 22, Jeff Foxworthy takes the stage at Wild Adventures, the affordable family theme park in Valdosta, Georgia. Get details and advance tickets at https://wildadventures.com/ 

 

See weekly reports of new, future and offbeat campgrounds and events for campers and RV travelers at  https://solowomanrv.blogspot.com 

  

           Are you ever caught short when you remember a forgotten birthday, anniversary or other gift need? Instantly send an Amazon gift card. These cards don't expire and are good for full value. There is no activation fee. See all the choices of designs, occasions and prices,  $10 and up  https://amzn.to/3KhjOwK

 

NATIONAL PARK FEE-FREE DAYS IN 2024

The remaining U.S. National Park Service entrance fee-free days for 2024 are:

• April 20-
• June 19  –
  
• August 4 – 
• September 28 – 
• November 11 – 

Wait! There's more! About 300 of the nation's   500+ parks are free to enter every day. Where fees are charged,  entrance fees range from $10 to $35. The fee waiver on free dates applies only to NPS entry and not to camping, boat launch, transportation, special tours, or other activities. 

 

See sweet and savory recipes for homemade  travel  snacks gorp and trail mix for your purse, pocket, backpack, carry-on. Save money when you make a big bagful, then measure and package in snack bags for freshness and portion control.  

https://createagorp.blogspot.com

 

TRAVEL EMERGENCIES HAPPEN

     We know travelers have limited storage space for emergency foods, so Survival Food Handbook  is written just for campers, RV travelers, tiny homes and boaters. Make the most of every ounce, inch and dollar with  foods that you'll use and replenish, yet always have balanced meals for a few days during an surprise evacuation, fridge failure, shelter-in-place order or other unplanned speed bump on your trip.  http://amzn.to/1WdYqbe

 

 

 Where will you hike or bike on America's great and growing Rails-to-Trails network? See Railstotrailsconservancy.org/

 

 

Love sailing stories, sea yarns, cozy mysteries? Travel the Caribbean islands vicariously with fictional widow Farley Halladay in this poignant, funny series of e-books set on sea and shore. E-book available on Kindle, Nook, Google Play et al. Ideal for space-saving reads at home and away. Start anywhere in the salty , six-book series, January Justice through June Jeopardy.   https://amzn.to/3BH4AZK

 

 Bucket List Alert! Hike or bicycle (trail pass required) the 34-mile-long Sparta-Elroy State Trail in Wisconsin winter or summer, when temperatures inside the long, dark, hand-dug tunnels stay the same temperature ( in the 50's and 60's)  all year. It’s said to be the oldest rail-trail conversion in the United States. The railroad opened here in 1873. Campgrounds are found in small communities along the way.  

 

Do you need a one-size-fits-all gift for any person, any occasion?  Cooking Aboard Your RV features more than 200 travel-tested, shortcut recipes for camping, RV travel, tiny homes and all  cooks who love shortcuts.  Amazon can wrap and ship it for you.   https://amzn.to/3nNndWY

 

 

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    Everyone is advised to carry a first aid kit.  But how? What? Where to keep it? Most important of all, What’s Inside? The family that founded Keep Going has re-invented the first aid kit and I’m wowed.  First, the kits are complete, right down to a tick remover, finger splint and instant cold pack. Second, kits are designed to be packable, compact, good looking, durable and easily grabbed.  

    One model comes with 106 first aid products. Zippered, durable cases come in a variety of colors and patterns. A Super Kit comes with 270 pieces and the mini kit has 60 pieces. There’s even a Kids Kit with 44 pieces. Best of all, refill bundles are available to make it easy to keep supplies fresh and complete. 

    The secret to carrying a mini-ER  in these cases is to provide only small amounts of each essential. Every item is neatly filed in see-through sleeves arranged in “pages” for quick access.     Keep Going is a family-owned, Florida business that knows travel, knows first aid and knows about the kinds of emergencies travelers might face on the go.  I  recommend Keep Going for yourself, for gifts and for  everyone who needs a first aid kit for the camper, boat, car, cabin or office.  See  (www.) KeepGoingFirstAid.com/

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