Just to
let you know . . . I’ve added some random photos from our Father’s Day boating
adventure that have absolutely nothing to do with the following post. I didn’t want to plagiarize any pics from the
blogs mentioned below but, since I always appreciate some color in the posts I
read on other blogs, I decided to provide you with at least a little something
to break up the text. In case you’re wondering
what boating has to do with camping, well, that’s a perfect topic for a future
post!
One of the benefits of retirement that I’ve enjoyed and appreciated
is the gift of more time to read. I’ve
always gotten up earlier than any other members of our family and savored that
quiet time with the first cup of morning coffee accompanied by a good book or blog, or the
latest issue of a favorite magazine. And
then I would go off to work having started my day on a pleasant and even keel. Once I escaped from the workforce two years
ago, I stretched one cup of coffee into two and began spending my early morning
time exploring blogs of different topics, especially those written by other RV
travelers.
I always get great pleasure out of digging up intriguing and
useful information about the travel destinations on our vacation itineraries
whether through reading about those destinations in guide books or on web sites,
or by talking with people who had visited them.
And I found out that poking around on the blogs of fellow RV travelers
is pretty much a combination of all three.
I started discovering wonderful new destinations, tips on how to enjoy
places we planned to visit and helpful facts about shopping, dining and
campgrounds.
Blog authors, just like book authors, have different writing
styles and formats, and I soon found that I was drawn to blogs that were well
written and had at least a smattering of photos with excellent landscape
photography being a plus. And I was
particularly attracted to authors whose warm personality and sense of humor was
evident in both their blog posts and their relationships with their readers.
The blogs I read generally fall into one of several categories – finances and investing (you can take
the banker out of the bank but . . . ), retirement
(two years in and it’s awesome!) and, of course, the camping lifestyle (it goes without saying, right?). I’m thinking that those of you who read this
blog may enjoy some of the same things that I do so, in the interest of sharing
some great finds with like-minded people, I decided to add a Blog Roll to the
right hand column of Reflections Around the Campfire. But, just like when I add a web site to “my
favorite places,” I’d like you to know why
I’m adding each particular blog to my Blog Roll so that you can decide
whether or not it would be of interest to you.
Let us begin!
