Recipes for living, loving and laughing:Jo, Elliott, Cloey & Zoey's adventures

It happened because as a 40 something woman I decided I wanted a personal trainer. She was given a 20 something muscle bound young man who knew nothing about 40 something women. It was then that she decided to try to fill that void in the world of personal training. She worked part-time while working at HeadStart and for a bit after she left her job as a Social Worker. She loved it and the best part was not having to pay a personal trainer. Jo will from time to time put in reviews or lead you to some you might enjoy. They might be of gyms, fitness, or equipment. She has been the number 1 reviewer at epinions for quite a while and a top reviewer in Sports and Outdoors. This was a piece she wrote awhile back but it is still relevant.  Bowflex has come out with a cardiovascular machine called a TreadClimber. There are 3 models available. This essay will attempt to sort them out for you and tell you some features of Bowflex that may not be available on other machines. However be ...

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We love the beach and live on it when we aren't in Georgie. I love taking pictures; some come out great and some..well not so much. This is a great shot taken somewhere in our travels. 

Jo took this picture while visiting Everglades National Park.

Elliott had a conference in Las Vegas so our furbabies couldn't come but we had a blast. I'll post pics later. I have reviewed lots about Las Vegas since we had a 5-year run a few years back! The buffet in Paris was the best and it really is one of the best . It will cost you $$$ and is one of the buffets where there is less quantity and a great deal more quality. It is also much smaller and a more intimate atmosphere if that is what you are looking for. Paris is gorgeous, go visit, even if you don’t eat there. But we do recommend that you splurge one night and go there. You won't be sorry.

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Cloey and Zoey have very different personalities but they do most everything together. This is one of their favorite positions.

Jo (aka honey) and Elliott (aka honey) have made it to almost 30 years. They said i couldn't be done. The road was rocky, umm how about mountainous, but we are here, enjoying the moment and each other. We can spend 24/7 together!! Life is what happens while you're making other plans. John Lennon

• The pop Up or tent trailer is a huge step up from a tent. It is easy to pull and for the money has quite a bit of space. A Hi-Low works like the Pop Up. It has a flat profile while pulling it but when it's raised you have a hard sided home rather than canvas. These have two and sometimes three pull-outs which house the beds. Add a screen house and you are all set for days and day. Prices: $3,545 and $12,425  • The truck camper. The camper goes into the bed of a pickup truck. There are pros to the truck camper especially if you go small. You are essentially driving a truck with a small home on your back. You can tow because the camper fits into, onto and over the truck. The smallest may not have a bathroom or shower but you won't have to go up much in price to find those essentials. Price: around $7,000 for a small eight- foot truck camper.  • A class B motor home is a compact unit that looks very much like a regular van but bigger and with all the amenities of home. The...

We decided to cash in our clunker for a 2010 Toyota Corolla. We have been Toyota fans for a long time owing a Camry, Lexus, Tundra, and others. We test drove the Honda Fit and the Toyota Versa. The Honda Fit was nice but Toyota is giving incentives that were hard to pass on. The Versa was awful. I did not even have a place to put my coffee cup!  We bought a basic 4 door manual sedan with a 1.8 liter 5 cylinder engine.   Out of the 3 the Corolla was the biggest and although the back seat does not go up as in the Fit the back seat goes down so we’ll have plenty of room for our stuff.  The 2010 Corolla gets about 26 mpg on the city roads and 35 on the highway. Certainly this isn’t the best mileage (i.e. the Prius) but in this price category $16,000 it made the grade.  I also am big on safety and felt the Versa was just too small although the crash ratings were good. The safety ratings for the Corolla are 4 stars for the driver and passenger in ...

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We have had two travel trailers over the years. One was 21-feet and one was 25-feet. It took us a long time to finally get our dream. We sold our truck, traded in our travel trailer and just bought a Georgetown Motorhome. If all goes well we are hoping to go to Florida with it in December. We have gone to Florida for many years but skipped last December because of Jo's mom. We are very excited and our hope is to chronicle our trip and adventures as well as other meaningful "stuff" here.

I don't write anymore for any of the sites listed below. It was fun at the time. I wrote for Epinions for 15 years!  We traveled with Buffy, our Cocker Spaniel and Popcorn, our West Highland White Terrier. The kids left home for college and Jo, Elliott, Buffy and Popcorn moved to a bluff on the ocean. This is our backyard. Over the years, we visited about 27 National Parks and most states with our dogs including our beloved Hanna, who we lost way too soon. Hanna died at the age of 8. Our grief was so enormous that we decided we could survive if we bought not one but two puppies from the same litter. In comes Zoey and Cloey. They are Havanese sisters who bring joy to our lives every day. Cloey is on the left and Zoey is on the right. They were born March 8, 2012. We have also been to Paris , London , Barcelona, Madrid, Israel , China , and Eastern Europe. Most recently we went to Ireland.  We've gone on cruises including Alaska, the Panama Canal and the Balt...

It started many years ago when the three kids were young, and we thought camping would be fun. After loading all our stuff on top of Elliott's old Corolla and stopping every 15 minutes to check that the stuff was still on the roof, we decided to buy a pop-up. Oh, right one more step along the way...we took them to DisneyWorld for our honeymoon with Jo's dad's Caddy. All would have been fine had it not wanted to start when we were all set to go home. After getting it started, we were then afraid to shut if off so...we drove from Florida to Massachusetts without shutting off the car. We bought the pop-up used and it served us well.  The kids loved amusement parks and they got to see much of the east coast of the U.S. and into Canada including Niagara Falls and Shediack, the lobster capital of the world!