The Windy City

by | Oct 29, 2010 | America, Architecture

Our next stop on the memory highway was Chicago, a city known to Manny as the home of his college girlfriend and first serious love, Brenda Brisch. Although we wouldn’t be visiting Brenda because she presently works and lives on the Cote d’Azur in France, Manuel...

A trip down memory lane

by | Oct 28, 2010 | America, History

Recollections of places, events and people from the past are often clouded by years of reminiscing and yearning for the good old days, especially when the good old days were the sixties and seventies, when memories were cast in a haze of pot smoke. Manuel went to the...

Wherever the wind takes us

by | Oct 27, 2010 | America

When Manny and I declared that we wanted to go where the wind blew us, we thought we were using a metaphor. But shortly after leaving the factory, we headed into some of the worst weather the Midwest had seen in decades. Driving through North Dakota, Minnesota and on...

The Border

by | Oct 22, 2010 | America, Canada, Logistics

As I write, it is Friday night, October 22, and I am sitting propped up in one of the two sleeping options in our brand new Freedom II Serenity motorhome. Two months ago, it seemed that this day would never arrive, and frankly, it still has a dreamlike quality to it....

RV financed yet?

by | Jul 10, 2010 | America, RV Financing

As you can imagine, purchasing our Serenity II dream home wasn’t like walking into a car dealership and arranging financing for a new automobile. It’s more in the category of buying a small vacation cottage. But we weren’t worried. We banked at Citibank, where we had...