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As soon as we got home from the first trip in Steely Van, we started stripping it out to redo and finish the conversion After the trip to Colorado, we had a list of things that needed to be redone … Continue reading Version Two of Steely Van
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With COVID issues and work schedules squeezing in on us, we push hard to get back to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, but stop at one more state park. Gotta shower occasionally…! Our time spent in New Mexico was short … Continue reading Racing Home, and One More State Park
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After our visit to Great Sand Dunes National Park, with its dark volcanic sands derived from the surrounding mountains and its cold, biting winds, we headed south to White Sands National Park. It was great to be able to wear … Continue reading More Sand…But White!
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Making progress on the van conversion!
Continue reading A Month into Retirement and Van Conversion
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I can’t believe it. I actually retired. Yep, quit working at my federal career of over twenty years. Continue reading I Did It!
Trying to make some good out of a world-wide pandemic, or, What does this have to do with me? Last year about this time, I was shut down. I am a federal worker and was subject to the government shutdown that lasted for 35 days. So as to not go crazy, and having a desire to try to write creatively, I started a blog and joined Medium. I do a lot of writing for my job and really enjoy it, so I thought that I could do more with it, especially with retirement looming (ok, Boomer…). I set up the … Continue reading A Restart in the Time of Corona
The partial federal government shutdown, the longest on record, affected about 800,000 federal workers in all fifty states. Nine out of fifteen federal departments were affected. Given the hardships placed on government workers, it was not a vacation. Here is how I tried to make out of it what I could. Continue reading How I Spent my Federal ‘Vacation’
I am a government worker hoping to retire in the next few years. I need to learn all I can about federal retirement, and would like to share that learning with you, and learn from you. Continue reading Federal Retirement Prep
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