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Harvest Hosts - Memory Lane

Imagine camping in a pampered vineyard overflowing with ripening grapes. One of our favorite ways to camp, Harvest Hosts, is offering a special holiday sale. 30% off your first year of membership.

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3,000 Days on the Road

Today is another milestone: 3,000 days on the road, as we live in Beauty. How have we changed traveling full-time for so long?

Posted October 4, 2024 – Narrated by Jim To listen to the podcast, click the play button We recently shared the post, The Magic of Number Nine, our completion of 8 years of full-time travel and the start of our 9th year. Today is another milestone: 3,000 days on the road, as we live in Beauty. This big day conjuncts with my 70th birthday. Yep, I’ve hit the big seven-o today, October 4th! How…

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Civil Rights Trail - Chapter 5: New Orleans

Something keeps calling us back to The Big Easy. Each time we return we feel more like locals with a better understanding and appreciation for the cuisine, the music, and the most unique cultural history in America.

Food, Music and Enlightenment The Civil Rights Trail Chapters Join us in this series as we share our once-in-a-lifetime adventure in Food, Music and Enlightenment. Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Emmett Till Chapter Three: Juke Joint Festival – Clarksdale, Mississippi Chapter Four: Mound Bayou – Mississippi Chapter Five: New Orleans Chapter Six – Montgomery – Alabama – coming…

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Olly Olly Oxen Free

Living in Beauty and full-time travel is a group effort in expertise from a wide range of experts. Our mistakes are our own, but we attribute our successes to "The Collective."

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The Magic of Number Nine

Today we start our 9th year traveling full-time in our Airstream. We're looking forward to a fantastic & adventurous, yet slower & more immersive 9th year. But, today, we're looking back at what we've already experienced in our first 8 years of travel.

Posted July 18, 2024 – Narrated by Jim To listen to the podcast, click the play button Today, we start our 9th year traveling full-time in our 2001 30′ Airstream. Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas Grooving on numbers and designing colorful infographics based on analysis is my thing – not so much for Carmen. Every Living in Beauty Anniversary, she steps aside as I release the pretty shiny…

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Campground Review: Cane Creek Park, Waxhaw, North Carolina

If nature can explain the universe and our place in it, then Cane Creek Park served us well for our two week maximum stay. Here is our review of this wonderful campground.

Posted June 28, 2024 – Narrated by Carmen To listen to the podcast, click the play button See our 5-Bambi rating legend at the end of this review.  “The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.”Nancy Wynne Newhall, American Photography Critic “What’s the most amazing place you’ve ever seen?” We’re asked this question so often we should print the answer on our…

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Civil Rights Trail - Chapter Four: Mound Bayou, Mississippi

In honor of the upcoming Juneteenth National Independence Day, we are publishing our latest blog post on our Civil Rights Trail journey. As we drove toward Mound Bayou, we expected to visit a museum, but we soon discovered that the entire town is a museum

Food, Music and Enlightenment The Civil Rights Trail Chapters Join us in this series as we share our once-in-a-lifetime adventure in Food, Music and Enlightenment. Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Emmett Till Chapter Three: Juke Joint Festival – Clarksdale, Mississippi Chapter Four: Mound Bayou – Mississippi Chapter Five: King Biscuit Blues Festival – Helena, Arkansas – coming…

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Pico Has Left The Building

Pico de Gallo: Great Explorer of the Universe - May 25, 2008 to May 15, 2024. One week before his 16th birthday, on May 15th, Pico passed peacefully, from natural causes. This is a tribute to a travelin' dog – a dog of The Road... 2,858 days in Beauty.

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A Day in Beauty

"So, what's it like to live in an Airstream?" The answer to that question changes about every two weeks. The short answer is, "It's magical." We just released a short documentary about living in Beauty, pursuing moments that add up to dreams.

Posted April 20, 2024 – Narrated by Carmen “So, what’s it like to live in an Airstream?” Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Our answer to that question changes about every two weeks. Four weeks ago the answer was, “Living in an Airstream is like living on the beach.” Galveston Island State Park, Texas Two weeks later, living in an Airstream was like living in a field of bluebonnets during an…

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Good News!

Today, we're really jazzed to share with you that Living in Beauty is in the news. United Press International, UPI, just published a front page feature article on Living in Beauty.

Posted March 28, 2024 – Narrated by Carmen “Celebrating good news reminds you that there’s still hope — and the end of the story isn’t here yet.” Branden Harvey, CEO of Good Good Good Living in Beauty is a cool and futuristic way to navigate the planet. Full-time mobility in our Airstream reduces dependence on mass transit and housing, while increasing our connection to nature, family,…

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Civil Rights Trail - Chapter Three: Juke Joint Festival - Clarksdale, Mississippi

Merging onto The Blues Trail from the Civil Rights Trail and the Emmett Till Memorial was effortless, and necessary. We've heard that when life gets heavy, The Blues can soothe woes. It was almost Opening Day of the annual Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival.

Food, Music and Enlightenment Posted March 20, 2024 – Narrated by Carmen To listen to the podcast, click the play button Merging onto The Blues Trail from the Civil Rights Trail and the Emmett Till Memorial was effortless, and necessary. We’ve heard that when life gets heavy, The Blues can soothe woes. It was almost Opening Day of the annual Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival, and we needed to…

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International Women's Day

Today, on International Women's Day, I am being highlighted by Airstream. How wonderful to be noticed for simply enjoying life to the fullest. I am bursting with pride and a sense of history with this honor.

Posted March 8, 2024 – Narrated by Carmen Today, on International Women’s Day, I am being highlighted by Airstream. How wonderful to be noticed for simply enjoying life to the fullest. I am bursting with pride and a sense of history with this honor. Wally Byam, Airstream’s founder, had a vision of pleasure travel as breaking away from the usual and making every day a new beginning. New…

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Civil Rights Trail - Chapter Two: Emmett Till

Our Civil Rights Trail tour began with the Emmett Till Memorial – a good place to start. The 1955 murder of Emmett Till launched the Civil Rights movement.

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Civil Rights Trail - Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter One: The promise of a more perfect union called us to the Civil Rights Trail to be listeners, students of destiny. Join us as we tool-up from an abundance of love and join America's collective journey toward human rights for all.

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8 Christmases in Beauty

The expectation of better days ahead is a good enough reason to break out the Trailer Christmas box every year and begin a month-long celebration.

Posted December 17, 2023 – Narrated by Carmen To listen to the podcast, click the play button “Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”Charles Dickens, author of A Christmas Carol – Read Free, Listen Free, Watch Free Pitching a tent on Christmas Eve under the stars is an old tradition we picked up from a family of refugees. You’ve…

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It Was A Very Good Beer

Locally owned breweries are a safe place to enjoy the ancient elixir and make new friends. Chatting over a frosty beer has revealed some not-to-be-missed sights that most online tour guides completely miss. Here are the 259 breweries we have visited.

Posted November 7, 2023 – Narrated by Jim To listen to the podcast, click the play button When we first started out, it was a very good beer.It was a very good beer for nomadic typesOn soft summer nights.We’d try specialty flightspaired with pub food bites,In our very First Year.When in our Second Year, it was a very good beer.It was a very good beer for joyful treksTo festivals and…

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Harvest Hosts - One Night Delights

Thanks to Harvest Hosts – a membership club for free overnight camping based on a European model – RV travel is experiencing a resurgence of hospitality not seen since the bygone era of the American Auto Park of the 1920's-to-50's.

Posted October 19, 2023 – Narrated by Carmen To listen to the podcast, click the play button When passing through, some places are too beautiful to leave … Near Yellow Lake – ‎⁨Kaleden⁩, ⁨British Columbia⁩, ⁨Canada⁩ so, sometimes we stay. Near ‎⁨Elko⁩, ⁨Nevada⁩, Thanks to Harvest Hosts – a membership club for free overnight camping based on a European model – RV travel is experiencing a…