Connie Sue 🌿

It’s a quiet, peaceful, 45 degree morning at the usually busy campground. After a chaotic post-tornado week, the peace is almost spooky. This place is usually jam packed on weekends…People come to camp in their campers, tents, or a cabin. There’s always weekend activities here for the whole family. Many of the weekenders are locals but some come from out of town and others are travelers just passing thru. My guess on why it’s a quieter weekend…There’s major road construction at the entrance to…

In my last post, I shared about the tornado that hit my hometown of Lena IL less than 2 hours after I arrived in the area. Auntie M’s house had some damage from the tornado. Minor compared to some, but damaged nonetheless. The yard was a chaotic mess…Her yard was a maze of fallen trees, tangled limbs and branches, broken glass from blown out windows, a bent in half screen door that was ripped off the hinges, and debris that may or may not have been hers. A huge tree on one side of the house was…

Stormy weather, cold weather, and hot-humid weather are all things that need to be considered when living the van life. Over the years I’ve considered that I don’t like storms. I can do cold (freezing) weather but I’d rather not. As for extreme hot-humid weather, with no AC it can become a life threatening issue (only took once to learn that lesson). I’ve had my share of tornados, flash floods, tropical storms, and more. But the latest one happened on April 17 in my hometown of Lena Illinois -…