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Welcome to our history... (darknesttravels.blogspot.com) Come travel with Cocoa, the Daschund, me,Tim Eagle, and my wife, Maria. As we are on an adventure of travel with our fourth Airstream, a 1995 Class A Land Yacht, in the not to distant future. Our Mothership is being updated and made to be road ready for our long distant travels through the USA. Come join us, subscribe to our YouTube channel, follow us on Instagram. We will leap into a dream we've been patiently waiting for!
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Sunday, January 17, 2021
An icy world / Wildlife & Writing/ A video for all of YOU / RV Travel Blog / RV Travel VLOG
The icy mornings slowly melted away, turning into beautiful days. We walked to a county park, as seen in our video below. The sandy ground, the blue sky, the variations of wild palms growing on either side was an enticing walk. The white path we were on signaled that there had to be water ahead, and boy were we surprised when we arrived at the end. Watch the video and be blown away by the sounds, the sites, some narration by me, and how beautiful solitude can sometimes be. Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for watching! https://youtu.be/nywtH7JUIlQ
Monday, November 23, 2020
Race with the Devil / Price Gouging / Satanic Cults? / RV Blog / RV Travel Life
Friday, November 20, 2020
The Path of Travel / RV Blog / RV Life
Whether it is a small weekend trip, a jaunt through the thumb of Michigan, travel never ceases to stir something inside Maria and me. Packing, ensuring everything that can be packed is stuffed into the Mothership, is a team effort between us. Maria makes lists for shopping, packs the bags, and I load them into the motorhome prior to lift off. Now this year, as we prepare to be snow birds, once again, things are a little off. We're leaving earlier. Holidays have changed. Our adult children are making their own decisions that we concur with, to stay hunkered down at their own residences and we ours. It's a little uncanny, a little less traditional, yes. Not to mention a little sad, because we love to see our adult children and love their visits with us. We're not paranoid, but all of us want to be as safe as we can be to help each other. That's the way we've always been as a family.
Thank goodness for video chatting, which we will be sure to do.
Travel, though, is different this time with Covid-19 an ever present topic of conversation. So we have been preparing throughout the summer. We've been stocking up on those things that people like to horde in times like these. We're different, we didn't wait until the month of November and do it all at once. We have plenty of toilet paper, FACE MASKS (so that we're not spreading our own germs), plenty of bottled water, and plenty of hand sanitizer, anti-bacterial wipes, etc. We also have a plan. We won't be stopping by super spreader events, or places that are packed with people. The campgrounds we do find and make a decision to stop at we will pay over the phone, or at a website to avoid contact. When we camp we will be using our own shower, our own bed, preparing our own food. We will not walk around to socialize with people, and this, my friends, is not like us! We love people's stories, but this year are pressing the pause button.
We will still sight see, I have a small itinerary for our trip, so we will not let any of you down on our youtube channel, if you haven't subscribed to yet, you should. We will visit places that are a little less traditional, so all our subscribers can look forward to that! Know that we're thinking of all of you in these weird times, that we are continuing to travel with safety first and foremost, and that I will still attempt my hand at entertaining all of you at Dark Nest Travels!
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Monday, October 12, 2020
Monster on the Sidelines / Inspired / Preparation
I'm inspired as I count down the days before we leave the great state of Michigan and head toward warmer climates. The temperatures have been dropping, and I've heard through the grapevine that the temps in November are supposed to be a chilly conundrum. For the sake of my family and friends I hope not. I've got a lot of prep to do, a lot of transition to accomplish as we prepare Dark Nest, as we get organized and ready for our upcoming "Snow-Bird" trip. There is a certain mental preparation for the upcoming trip south. I have vaguely mapped out a route we plan on taking, but I don't want to elaborate due to our youtube channel, Dark Nest Travels, and don't want to spoil future videos.
I will say that Maria and I will not miss the chilly arms of winter which awaits like a monster on the sidelines. The month of October brings out the monsters, but not quite like the monster that winter is. October brings us colors, partially bare trees, the beginning of a crunchy forest floor, and the smell of autumn. I love the scents, warm coffee smells different, the scent of fallen apples rotting into the ground, the scent of a last cut on the yard are all nostalgic. The winding down of yet another summer and the life we've created in these weird, uncertain times is coming to fruition. Going south this year, this winter, is questionable to some, but we don't refrain from going. I would rather be isolated, staring at the sunny days, palm trees, and birds of the south, than to stare at the gray sky, and brown grass out the windows of our Nest. It sounds so much better, doesn't it?
When we arrive to our destination in Florida, and after a long journey on in the RV, a new life awaits us. I plan on writing more, be sure to check some of those out here and at Tim Eagle's Portal , and getting into a healthier routine with my daily life, i.e. eating better, loosing weight and focusing on more writing, it's in me to give to all of you, so I must create and give. I hope time don't slip through my fingertips and that I can follow through with my goals going forward. Thanks for stopping by this time around, and thanks so much for reading a blog, I know it's been awhile. Stay tuned to our videos here: Dark Nest Travels and come back as often as you can when I stop procrastinating and write to you. I'm going to leave one of my favorite Airstream pictures that I think displays autumn the way it should be viewed. Enjoy!
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Ghosts, Minnie Quay, Ora Labora
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
I Can't Exist Without You
Planning a trip is a tricky one, especially with projects for The Mothership just on the horizon, sometime in Spring. We are excited to get planning and are just waiting details, i.e, a date so we can put our plans in motion. But there are a few details, other than the realism that where we are going isn't "R.V. Friendly" (damn another hint)and will be renting a vehicle for the trip. The bug still persists on creating that scratch on our backs because travel is extremely intriguing and going someplace that we may have never planned in our past, has come to the forefront and we are ready to begin.
The first thing I like to do for a trip, whether it's planned or a last minute ditch effort to escape the confines of Dark Nest, yes it's a great place, but escaping it's small square footage is often necessary to live and to itch that scratch. I like do download all the maps required, and since we're not taking the motorhome, can use my Google Maps, which is the best map program used to this day. If there were a stand alone GPS unit that had Google Maps on it, I would own one. I don't like using the phone app when travelling with a motorhome, because sometimes the coverage that we carry doesn't allow for it, even downloading "offline" maps will not do the trick. So on this trip, I will take the time and download an "offline" version of my maps just in case there are spotty coverage.
The next thing we like to do, is figure out the gas expense. Most of you know how to do that by taking the miles of your trip and dividing those miles per gallon and you will get will get an accurate amount of fuel used.Take those gallons and multiply them by the average cost of fuel to get the amount.
Now I've just got the total cost of fuel for the trip, and the co-ordinates. We're almost there. I then plan where we're going to stay. With a motorhome, travel trailer, or fifth wheel, your place to stay is behind you, quite literally, the sheets clean the bedroom beckoning a weary soul tired from the road. Traveling with a rental vehicle your place to stay is ahead of you. I don't read too many reviews, but do love pictures, so I'll probably take the trips time into consideration, whether we need to stop the night before arriving to the destination or will we just drive straight through and stop at a room researched, which a lot of pictures, before the point of interest.
I can't exist without you, a trip, whether it's a quick road trip, a jaunt across the states, somewhere, we can't exist without scratching that itch that has developed, especially with the impending news of cold, ice, below freezing wind chills and another potential Snowpocalypse. On that note, I hoped I helped some of you travellers that want to get out and explore, if not, there's other avenues to research, Google is a big place!
Thanks for reading, and if you're still interested in those hints of our travels, sometime in April, be sure to get over to Dark Nest Travels on youTube and check out the videos! Be sure to subscribe, we need viewers like you. Talk to you soon.