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First Steps and Local Sights

First Steps and Local Sights

As the last of the snow melted and the weather started to gradually warm again over the past couple of weeks, we finished clearing the final few things out of our apartment.  Before leaving Newark, we needed to pick up a couple of accessories the dealer ordered for us when we bought the RV.  (Which, incidentally, Ashley has decided to name “Cecil” – but I am open to other ideas.  Feel free to chime in with your thoughts in the…

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Ode to Newark

Ode to Newark

Ashley and I spent the last four years in Newark DE, a small town probably best known as the home of the University of Delaware.  Newark’s population was estimated to be around 34,000 in 2015 with total enrollment at the university topping 23,000 in 2016.  So as you might imagine, the quirky, not-exactly-quiet town of Newark swells in population as the students return every semester.  Sometimes it’s hard to see Newark as anything other than a college town, with streets often…

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