![]() ![]() ![]() Both projects were completed under contracts with black and white nature photographer, Clyde Butcher. Two book projects saw release in recent years: Big Cypress Swamp: The Western Everglades, 2nd edition, for which I served as editor, and Celebrating America’s National Parks, a book I authored. Radio hosting and the capturing of images were passions that developed via life on the road. Over this time, I’ve also hosted two radio shows and become a photographer of wildlife and wild places you can see some of my images at: My work has also been on offer in a gallery and in stores at Grand Canyon. ![]() I monitored condors for the Park Service at Grand Canyon and-for two summers-served on the sea turtle patrol on Topsail Island in North Carolina (my patrol partner and I found two nests the second year and helped our hatchlings make their way to the ocean!). We also “workcamped” (more about this in a bit) in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida for nearly a year and had longer stays of several months on a ranch in the Badlands of South Dakota, at a park on the Oregon coast, and on a winery on the North Carolina coast. I also spent a couple of days a week in Kolb Studio, the home and workplace of two pioneering photographers, while Gene was at the Verkamps Visitor Center. We lived in Grand Canyon National Park for a year, where I worked as a guide and instructor for the Grand Canyon Field Institute (the non-profit partner of the park). I also made a side trip to Hawaii my husband will have to catch up, minus an RV, to finish the fifty. With earlier RV trips added in, we have now visited every state of the lower 48 plus Alaska and every province and territory of Canada, save for Nunavut. We’ve been traveling–off and on–ever since, meandering around-for most of that time-in a 2011 Dodge Ram 3500, towing a 2011 Carriage Cameo 5th wheel (55 feet long from truck bumper to RV bumper). If you prepare well, and perhaps even you don’t, life on the road can be filled with wonderful adventures and a good many misadventures! I’m a writer and my husband, who is several years my senior, was able to take an early retirement, so we were in a position in 2010 to sell our home and get gone. I am often asked for advice on long-term RVing and am delighted to share what I’ve learned. ![]()
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