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Chuck & Donna

Hello. We are Chuck and Donna Cole. Welcome to this website about our travels. We hope this site will enable family and friends, near and far, to learn about interesting locations to visit. 

Our Story

In 2004, we were living in a little mountain home on five acres near Douglas City, California, and working several businesses.  We decided to make a major lifestyle change and sell our home, some of the businesses, and become full-time RVers.  By August, our home had sold and we had decided on a factory ordered motorhome from Monaco which we picked up in Oregon in late October.  In December 2004, we started writing emails to our friends and family describing what we called, "The Great Escape."  In 2010, with our 100th email newsletter right around the corner, we decided to archive those emails on this website so that friends who joined us late in the journey or lost their emails, could go back and read the newsletters that interest them.  These newsletters detail our journey through selling our "stuff," buying and modifying our motorhome, and our travels to wonderful destinations.

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If you would like to get future Great Escape newsletters by email so you get the latest news as soon it's written, drop us a note at mail@travelswithcoleandcole.com.  The email version will have higher resolution than the archived copies.  Include your name and email address.  We hate SPAM as much as you do.  That's why this is an opt-in mailing list.  Rest assured that we will never give your email address to anyone for any reason.  You may unsubscribe at any time. 

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The newsletters on this website have been archived using Adobe Acrobat (PDF). Because the archived versions have been compressed, the photo resolution is not as good as the email version.  You must have Adobe Reader 5.0 or later. If you need a copy of the free Adobe Reader, you can download it from Adobe's website at: http://get.adobe.com/reader/?promoid=BUIGO