We had one week of spring bliss in Tennessee. Knoxville’s flora was in its full glory and the temperatures soared into the 80s. This is one of my two favorite times of the year in the area, the other one being Fall.
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By Oana Harrison
PUBLISHED in ROVA Magazine, March/April 2025 issue
The desert: dust, death, and desolation. Or at least that’s how I used to think about it before our springtime road trip to the Southwest. Eight months into a full-time RV year that my husband, David, and I had embarked upon, we headed west through Texas to New Mexico, Arizona, the California coast and back. Along the way, we discovered unique places in the Chihuahua, Sonora, Mojave, and Colorado Deserts. The Southwest offered incredible natural nuances, from shifting sand dunes to endless canyons, to lush oases and blue lakes. This landscape I’d once viewed as dead and quiet, the desert was teeming with life. And nothing prepared me for the intense orange-purple sunsets or the Technicolor desert in bloom.
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March 2023 held a special reason for a visit to Tennessee: my mother-in-law’s 95th birthday. We celebrated a special person, as well as a colorful beginning of spring. Unfortunately, only two months later, we returned to celebrate Marian’s life, as she peacefully made her passing.
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We felt a slight jolt of joy and excitement as our RV rolled across the Tennessee state line: we were getting closer to “home,” or at least whatever version of it we remembered from before our trip. To be honest, I was ready to be in a sticks-and-bricks environment after ten months in the RV. As sweet as our home on wheels was, I had missed hosting friends and family, especially at holiday time—of course, thanks to the pandemic, we couldn’t have done much hosting anyway, so not much lost, I guess. I missed the familiar and I looked forward to returning to Knoxville.
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What better way to spring your taste buds into action than a nice, fresh and green spring onion, garlic or leek? This youthful trio from the Allium family can put a spring in your step by fending off germs from the inside out. So, unless you’re a vampire, on a date, or a vampire on a date, sink your teeth into some Allium health!
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