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This Site is Online Now

24 January 201429 January 2014Greg Fuller

This site is mostly a personal journal. Although you couldn’t reach this site until now, for the last few weeks when I posted to Facebook, I might also have posted here. From the next non-trivial post on, I’ll post here first, and let a WordPress plugin automatically post to Facebook and Twitter. I hope that works – we’ll see.

I’ve gone back and done some retro posting here from my Facebook entries. And there are a few very old posts predating Facebook which were brought over from my old blog. It’s a work in progress – there are still some improvements and more retro posts to be done. Please bear with me while I get the kinks worked out.

One of the motivations for this is so Facebook won’t have an exclusive grip on what is essentially a personal diary and photos. Who knows how long Facebook will be around, and what would replace it.

Campground at Summerland Key

23 January 201419 April 2015Greg Fuller

I woke early this morning at 5 a.m. and drove from Pembroke Pines to Key Largo. I stopped at a Starbucks at mile marker 100 to work a few hours before driving to my campsite at Summerland Key. This is the campsite, overlooking Lazy Lake. This is the first time I have stayed at a campground on this trip. I have full hookups (electricity, water, and sewer) as well as wifi. Tomorrow I plan to bicycle the 20 miles to Key West and explore.

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The Florida Keys – Tomorrow

22 January 201419 April 2015Greg Fuller

I’m heading down to the Keys tomorrow after I finish some work. It was hard to get a good camp spot for Friday and Saturday, but I found one for Thursday and Friday so I decided to take it. I hope to leave around 10 or 11 a.m. It’s 150 miles to where I’m staying – according to Google it’s a 3 hour drive. The campground is about 20 miles east of Key West.
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The Experiment Continues

20 January 201419 April 2015Greg Fuller

The experiment continues. I don’t know how much I’ll like this way of living, but by the time I return to Birmingham on February 14th I should have a better idea. Today was a totally non-touristy day.

I worked remotely via wifi at the very comfortable Starkbucks in “The Shops at Pembroke Gardens.” Afterward, I prepared my lunch using the propane burner in the Roadtrek. I got a flu shot at a Wallgreens. Then I worked out at the Y you see in the picture. After a long, hot shower, I had a veggie-delight at the Subway inside the Y.

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The most pleasant part of the day was meeting Carlos Gonzalez-Rosquet. He pointed out the best attractions in the area, along with interesting pieces of history that went with them. More on that later.

I don’t know where I’ll overnight tonight, but I have a couple of possibilities in mind. I don’t want to repeat a stay in the same place more often than every 4 or 5 nights.

Urban Stealth Camping in the Roadtrek

19 January 201419 April 2015Greg Fuller

I might get used to this stealth camping in the Roadtrek. I’ve slept at National Parks and National Forests, parked on the street, and in the parking lots of hotels, apartments, travel centers, hospitals, and various other establishments. Tonight it’s a Whole Foods Market near Ft. Lauderdale. I have the manager’s permission.
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Bicycling around Dania Beach Florida

19 January 201429 January 2014Greg Fuller

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Goodbye Pensacola

17 January 201419 April 2015Greg Fuller

Goodbye Pensacola. Last night Andy Marr whipped up a wonderful veggie lasagna. Had a great ime with Terri Holley, Crystal Marr, Andy, and my new 3rd cousin Desmond. On to Miami / Ft. Lauderdale.
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Bike Ride on a Warm Winter Day

22 December 201319 April 2015Greg Fuller

I couldn’t resist taking a neighborhood ride in these temps.

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Ginger’s Solstice Celebration

22 December 201319 April 2015Greg Fuller

I had a great time at Ginger’s solstice celebration. I just love sitting around a fire talking with friends.

“Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature. It indicates a spontaneous, Promethean rebelliousness against the fiat that this recurrent season shall bring foul times, cold darkness, misery and death.” –Thomas Hardy

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My Obamacare Enrollment Story

20 November 201317 April 2015Greg Fuller

Summary: As the picture attests, I’m all set for 2014, and it wasn’t difficult.

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Yes, the healthcare.gov site has glitches, but it is far from a disaster. The first time I tried to register, which was shortly after the site opened, I abandoned the effort because the site was acting a little flaky, and I had heard there were problems. The second attempt to register went smoothly.