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On The Road Again – Use Your Words

Today’s post is a writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.

At the end of this post, you’ll find links to the other blogs featuring this challenge. Check them all out, see what words they got and how they used them.

I’m using:    camping trip ~ vanished ~ suspicion ~ creek ~ cowboy Boots ~ 911

They were submitted by:  https://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/ 

It’s so funny that I would get these words this month. I was waiting to announce some big changes that are coming in January, but it was just fate I guess that I would get these words!

I am excited to share my big news with you! Starting January the 1st  The Blogging 911  will cease to exist. I’m not giving up my business, I could never do that. I absolutely love what I do and want to actually do even more in the coming year.

I sure you probably have a strong suspicion what my big surprise is and you would be right. I’m getting a big name change, a new outlook, and a new view. I’ve been homebound for the last seven years and I can’t actually hit the road full time like we want to do.

I couldn’t leave momma like that, but as the days fly by I see her shrinking a little bit more each and every day. The cancer is eating at her body as fast as the Alzheimer’s eats at her mind.  Like vultures scraping the bones of the latest road kill on the side of the highway. The only blessing is that she doesn’t know how sick she really is. We know the end is near and as painful as it is I just can’t stand to see her suffer.

On June 1st, we are planning a road trip extravaganza. A practice run, you could say, for the day we make our home on wheels permanent.  Six weeks, two countries, and over 12,000 miles. Just hubby and I and a really big camping trip!

Some people will surely think that we have just vanished or maybe that we’re up Shit  Creek without a paddle wearing cowboy boots, but we have planned this trip for years. “One day,” we kept saying, well one day happens to be June 1st! Six weeks of campgrounds, sleeping in the van or in the tent, showering when available, and seeing the world and all it’s beauty because we’ve seen enough of the ugly and need to get away!

Don’t worry though, I’ll be taking all of you with me! We’ll be talking about #VanLife, working from anywhere around the world, WordPress and so much more. Want to keep up? Head over to http://wandering web designer.com sign up for our latest posts and maybe I’ll see you on the road!

 

Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:

Baking In A Tornado                            https://www.bakinginatornado.com

On the Border                                     https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com/

The Bergham Chronicles                       https://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com

Cognitive Script                                    https://cognitivescript.blogspot.com/

Part Time Working Hockey Mom           https://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/

Sparkly Poetic Weirdo                         https://sparklyjenn.blogspot.com/

Climaxed                                         https://climaxedtheblog.blogspot.com

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Hi! I'm Rena! Pronounced /`ree-nuh/. I'm a 47-year-old wife, mom, grandmother, and daughter who loves to design WordPress websites. When I'm not chasing my two-year-old twin grandchildren, running after momma, or eating cheeseburgers you can find me happily buried up to my eyeballs in CSS!
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  1. Tamara Gerber says

    November 16, 2018 at 10:27 am

    Absolutely fantastic news, Rena! Your route looks promising!
    Very happy for you 🙂
    Can’t wait for the pictures and stories!
    Tamara Gerber recently posted…Use Your Words – Yippee-ei-o!My Profile

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  2. Karen BakingInATornado says

    November 16, 2018 at 12:20 pm

    You know how very happy I am for you. Can’t wait to follow your travels on the new site!
    Karen BakingInATornado recently posted…Regaining Civility: Use Your WordsMy Profile

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  3. Diane says

    November 16, 2018 at 1:29 pm

    That is beyond exciting! And I’m glad you are doing it. So many of us put it off until it isn’t physically possible any longer. Grab hold and go!
    And we get to go with you!
    (Any chance you’ll make it up to Canada?)
    Diane recently posted…Left at the ForkMy Profile

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  4. Sandra Sallin - Apart From My Art says

    December 23, 2018 at 3:07 pm

    Congratulations on making your dreams come true. Tried to log on but met with a mistake. Want to follow your travels.

    Reply

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