Creepy Knocking in the Woods at Night Followed Me in Escambia County, Alabama

Sharon January 22, 2021
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Creepy knocking sound in the woods. Walked the dog along the edge of the woods for her potty walk, at night, in the dark. Just as we’ve done all week in this campground. But tonight there was a sound. It …

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Dead Zone Campground

Sharon December 16, 2020
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Not one sign of wildlife. Anywhere. Here we were out in the middle of a forest, miles from civilization. Our last wooded campground had been teeming with squirrels but this one? Nope. Miles and miles of trees but not a …

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Inflatable Sea Eagle Kayak the Size of a Large Suitcase

Sharon May 25, 2020
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Downsizing into an RV touches EVERYTHING you own, including boats and floaties on the water. We love to kayak and we’ve taken our hardshell kayaks from Georgia to Upstate New York, and to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and …

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Trapping Tourists in Oklahoma and the Dust Bowl States

Sharon June 23, 2018
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The city of Lawton, Oklahoma has a wicked sense of humor against foreigners, meaning travelers like us. We’d driven 911 miles from Atlanta, Georgia in 16.5 hours including food and potty breaks to visit family in Lawton, and we were …

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Roswell, New Mexico, Home of the 1947 Alien Crash Landing

Sharon June 10, 2018
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Little grey aliens crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, but it was in Carlsbad Caverns just an hour away where we saw a landscape so alien that it was like visiting another planet. We spent a couple of days …

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Oil and Cattle Barons

Sharon June 3, 2018
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We gallivanted through the western states hoping to see sights we’d never seen before. From Atlanta, Georgia we’d driven to Lawton, Oklahoma, and from there to Roswell and then Carlsbad, New Mexico, down through Texas to Conroe near Houston, and …

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Other People’s Houses

Sharon May 28, 2018
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If we’d have walked into a 5th wheel after this last road trip instead of going home, we’d have been blown away as if entering a grand palace, even when comparing it to the one full-sized ranch house we stayed …

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Wytheville UFO Road Trip

Sharon July 28, 2017
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I had just published a book called Alien Nightmares which mentioned the wave of UFO sightings in Wytheville, Virginia, in 1987-1988. About a week after the book went live, we left for a road trip from Georgia to New York. …

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Everything New is Old Again

Sharon July 23, 2017
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I didn’t realize until we walked through several 5th wheel RVs that I felt as if our lives were broken down. Walking into our great big house after looking at fifth wheels was intensely depressing, and it took several hours …

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Sticks and Bricks Signs: The Jellyfish

Sharon July 16, 2017
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I had no way of gauging whether Bear was receiving the same signs that I was as far as living in a sticks and bricks house. You have to be in tune with your inner voice in order to hear …

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