1. Don’t buy chocolate thinking to soothe your psyche, it melts before you can eat it.

2. Keegan recognizes places we’ve stopped before. When we pulled into a spot we’d stayed at last week her tail started wagging.

3. The best spots are where you can sit outside rather than having to hide in the camper.

4. Visiting different libraries around town, different ones on different days, not only gives you access to clean restrooms but you also get to see different books.

5. When much of your daily calories come from the 3 or 4 pieces of fruit you get every day, spend the extra $0.15 and get the organic or farmers market fruit. It tastes so much better and seems to “hit the spot” much better than cardboard fruit.