Category: Culture
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Today’s Youth Are Becoming the New Greatest Generation
You youthfuls are amazing. So amazing and resilient are you, that you are becoming the new greatest generation. The world sees the epic challenge and your response coming to pass. America recognized its previous great generation; those who endured the Great Depression in the 1930s, who then beat back the Nazis in the 40s. Not…
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A Bit-Too-Fast But Awesome: Great Lakes VanLife Circle Tour
We’re just back from a Great Lakes VanLife adventure that provided an excellent and memorable start to experiencing the region. They call them the Great Lakes for good reason. In our Tellaro, we did our own tailored version of the acclaimed Lake Michigan Circle Tour. The trip was rich and rewarding. Call it a start…
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Taking in a Memorable Success: Official VanLife Adventure #1
Sometimes you get the opportunity and you just have to go for it. We are lucky to have just finished our first official VanLife adventure. This, after recently getting our Tellaro van and a wild unofficial adventure to get some electronics stabilized. Packing and preparing our van for the first leisurely adventure was a two-day…
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Amazing Cooper’s Hawks Rule South Wilson Avenue
UPDATE: I wondered what the Cooper’s Hawks would do when all the smaller birds and rodents were gone, and now we know. Rather unceremoniously, the hawks left. Seemingly, every single one. It was literally like over night. Maybe this is that circle of life. With the departure of the hawks, the other birds are quickly…
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Tellaro Love Lesson: A Borderline Wild Adventure
This Tellaro VanLife adventure is wild because it was so unexpected, unpredictable, and spur of the moment – a dedicated four days and three nights of unchartered persistence and learning. It had to happen. Without this adventure, our more “normal” VanLife could not get off to a good timely start. So, it wasn’t borderline wild…
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Great Time for Our VanLife Start Up
Our VanLife started up for real on the first hot summer day of 2022. This after doing the final walkthrough at an RV center over near Lake Michigan. My partner Paula followed closely by car, through the congestion and construction, across the state to our home in metro Detroit. It was the first real drive.…