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Archive for January, 2012

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Ah to be back in a Walmart parking lot in the middle of nowhere.  Well, apologies to the residents of Deltona, Florida, but being exactly halfway between Orlando and Daytona Beach, this isn’t exactly a destination.  I did appreciate the naming of the bar across the street as the Sports Den, before even entering there [...]

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The Atlantic.  Wait, the Atlantic Ocean?  The Atlantic anticlimax?  As quickly as the Georgia pines of last week turned to palm trees, so too did the New Mexico desert of 8 months ago give way to sandy Florida beaches and me staring towards Spain. So FYI, it’s not that difficult to drive all the way [...]

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I’m pretty sure the icing on the cake was me spending New Years Eve at a potluck full of 65 year olds at the group shelter at the Little Ocmulgee campground in the middle of nowhere in Georgia.  Either that, or me kicking everyone’s ass at dominos until they got too tired and went to [...]

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About Blimpy

This site is the story of a man (Blimpy Backgammon) from Calgary AB, Canada who made the electrifying realization that there’s more to life than working for the man or owning a condo.

So he quit his job, sold all his stuff, bought an RV (Bessie) the same age as him (27) and can now go anywhere and do anything, whenever he wants.

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