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Wed
11-Apr |
Had to leave a note for the Postman to stop the mail, tried to watch the
mail box on the Phone but missed him. So it was 11:30 before the wheels
rolled. At the first stop, Cave City, I had a huge "Microsoft" Virus scare,
no internet, seems to be on the server, but the IT guy's wife left him
after only 60 days, so no help available.
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Thur
12-Apr
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Rolled on out of Dinasour land and landed in
Montgomery AL.
Nice Park, Charity party for the VETS, great people. Rumor is that the
Barbeque man is her somewhere? Concrete man called at 8AM(sidewalk
at home), had to
have money, bad luck bud. Spent the Night, they wee
preparing for a Motor Cycle rally weekend. |
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Fri
13-Arp |
Friday the 13, good day to hit the road, so gas buddy helped save some
$$, and we rolled into the Island
Retreat, at Gulf Shores, after a stop at Camping World. |
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Sat
14- |
Then is off to the Shrimp Basket, and shopping to replace the beach chair we left
hanging in the garage. |
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Sun-
15 |
Went backup road for 20miles to go to Strawberry festival, big shindig,
Strawberry was the order of the day. MLS operated some farm machinery, a
corn shelling machine, later milled corn to make grits, which are later boiled to
make them eatable. |
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Mon
16 |
Added black water tank wind extractor, Went to beach got sunburn on my
head, got chills for 12 hrs, you'd think one could learn. |
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Tue
17-Apr |
Ten days of beach trips, the pool, bike riding, pier , Orange Beach, local
restaurants, and of course Bahamas Bob's.
Chit Chats
with Sam and Wesley. |
Catch
of the Day
The Beach
Patrol |
Wed
18-Apr |
Enough is enough, the bike has had too many wrecks, so it's off to the
store to get a new one, a Mongoose Mountain Bike, set the old one by the
fence and now it's gone, with my brand new chain, and good riddance. |
Full suspension
with handlebar ends |
Fri
27-Apr |
Decided to stay 3 more days, good weather and not ready to say goodbye
to the beach. Found a Blue Heron hiding along the bike path.
Went to Jake's Seafood,
right on the beach, MlS ordered "RIBS". |
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Sat
28 Apr |
I was a major player in the
28th Annual Interstate Mullet Toss & Gulf Coast's Greatest Beach
Party, as I had responsibility of watching competitors boats as they
went for a hotdog after a hard day of mullet catching! |
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Mon
30-Apr |
End of the month, and the end of the
campsite as we move on to places unknown. Through the Cracker Barrel
through Mobile and land at VRv park, in Vinton western LA. |
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Tue
1-May |
Nothing in Vinton so filler-up and we roll and filler-up again just to
land in San Antonio |
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Wed
2-May |
Clouds! |
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Thu
3-Mayr
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Groceries and the pool, filled the day |
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Fri
4-May |
Too late to start after the laundry, so another pool day |
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Sat
5-May |
Out on the road, US 90 to Marathon TX, Crossed the high cliffs of
the Pecos and through
Judge Roy
Bean's homeland to Marathon Hotel/RV where a wedding was planned
but few showed up. It was very picturesque, I was anxious to steal
some pictures, there was lots for activity from the mothers, and the
best man, finally the bride showed, oh my, I put my camera away, she
was a floozie. |
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Sun
6-May |
Rolled on through Van Horn and set up camp in Deming NM, a case of
wine is in order as we head for the final destination. |
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Mon
7-May |
2:45 arrive at the Voyager Rv Resort
8701 S. Kolb, Tucson, 85756 , 40-112 is the spot |
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Wed
9-May |
Setting up house for extended stay, everything in it's proper place! |
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Sun
13-May |
Saturday night we were invited to a salmon dinner by our neighbors
from Canada, Dave and Terry. Mother's day!, so it's off to the Ihop, a large
meteorite passed over the RV as well as a satellite, and Misty's Flowers
arrived. It was a great day at 104F. |
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Sat
19-May |
Washed and waxed part of the RV, washed Jeep and the UPS man brought
this wonderful looking cake, but she won't share. |
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Sun
20-May |
It's Happy Birthday Time, MLS makes it to 71, Clint Eastwood is
Inspector 71 in the movie Dirty Harry ('71). Who knew,
and then it's off to the
Vail Steak House Cafe & Diner for a big Stake. |
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Sat
2-Jun |
Wow, time flies when your having fun, We did the pot luck dinner for
Memorial Day, Mary goes to the office everyday,( aka.The Pool). Made
a trip to the theater to see Men in Black3, Yep was
pretty much the same, but has a twist with a young Tommy Lee,
I broke down and got a tricky little ladder so I could continue to
clean and wax the RV. Limited to about 60sft per day, or less.
A huge New Mexico fire just north of Deming, covering 370 square
miles, has poured smoke in to the Tucson Valley for 3 days, seems to
be clearing out now though. Yellow Jeep looks ready for new
adventures... |
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Sat
9-Jun |
Well the sun came up and it was a week later, finished the
polishing. A little adventure when I noticed that the water would
not come on, I went outside to investigate who shut the water off,
and noticed that my hose had burst and was flooding the area and the
street. It took about a minute to replace the hose and I
then noticed the small lake was nearly gone, hot humid and dry. I lost a
hinge pin on the Jeep top, called mfg. to get a part, about the size
of a half of a thumb, they said the top was under warranty and would
replace the whole top, no, no, I'll fix it.
Signed up for another month. highlights for the week include,
grocery shopping, haircut, and dinner at Chuy's and the too frequent
flat tire on my bike. |
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Sat
16-Jun |
Another week has blown by, Yet another flat tire on the bike, I am
now up to 4 flats,
standard stuff this week- pool, grocery, movie "The Best
Exotic Marigold Hotel ", and a few dinners. MLS went to a
birthday party with her pool buddies.! Highlights for the week was
getting BestTop to send a free replacement Release pin, and
Getting Coastal Industries to send a free bracket for the
shower door and getting PayPal to return $20 from some British scam.
And a trip to Kohl's allowed MLS to find a exact replacement for her
watch, that she lost in San Antoio, and with several major discounts
got a favorable deal. Should have gone to the
Casino! it's been a good week! |
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Mon
25-Jun |
Met the man who founded a company called
Sens-O-Lock of America.
This is evidently a company leasing breathalyzers for auto ignition systems. Great story,
he's ex-paramedic, found company in Boardman who manufactures the
instrument, he sells,($2000), maintains them $, and performs automatic &
required calibration$$. The traffic court judge demands its use for DWI
convictions and gives them a list of potential providers. Now he has a
40ft RV just traveling the country, but he wants a 44 footer. Lordy lordy. |
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Tue
26-Jun
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Wow, almost another two weeks have gone buy, I hope there is no test about what
we have been doing, pool, grocery shopping, diners, and miscellaneous projects.
Made plans to visit Ron and Judy July 5. Some little storms have threatened the
evenings, but hardly a drop.
Jeep hiding at Norms place as evening comes and goes. |
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Wed
27-Jun
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Bang! MLS broke-it, now we are out of business, we are down, can't do a thing,
yep she broke the Microwave door latch, had to make an emergency call to the
repair man, he's rushing the part to my site, after convincing me
that it was the problem. He's even sending the instructions. Small storm
rolled through, shook the RV but no rain.. |
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Thur
28-Jun |
The supreme court is no longer useful or needed, it decided we are too dumb to
exist, so it crafted changes to Obama Care then via contorted logic decided you
can be a taxed for doing noting. The dumbed down
twits of today are clueless to it all, maybe someday someone will read to the
twits about ancient America. See the American publicly educated
sheep?, Here's a free
tip, Read ;
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it's free! and
it's in audio format so you can keep
sitting around waiting for your next
edict.
It will tell you what is next for you.
Social Security is broke, Amtrak is broke, the Post Office is
Broke, Medicare is broke, and Medicaid is broke, I'm sure Obama care will work
out just fine if you just obediently listen to the lies. |
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Sat
30-Jun |
What a week, chased down my Jeep parts order, it's on the way now, we'll have to
wait and see. MLS broke the Microwave, ordered parts from, Kelly
McDavitt, Half Time Oven, 801 Oyster Lane, Lantana FL 33462, parts have arrived
and installed. Awning is coming apart, so men from
http://www.allrvtucson.com/ are coming
to install a new one, ChaChing$! |
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Sat
7-JUl |
Another week has blown by, but the world is temporarily right side up, the parts
for Jeep came and the new awning is installed, and signed up till the 29th of
July. Nothing is broken so we went to a movie with a rating of 94 tomatoes,
Moonrise Kingdom absolutely stupid, stupid, Willis and Murray should be ashamed. Looking
around the country this area is one of the coolest, go figure. So I washed
the Jeep to create a bright spot.
Went to see Ron and Judy, Chickened out and
put the side curtains on as we approached the Sierra Vista, but no rain to speak
of. Judy whipped up a supper dinner, and Ron showed us what he has been up to,
lots of hobbies and collections, most impressive and fun to look at, one new
addition, a Bison head hanging on the wall always has one eye on ya as you review other collections. Amazing! |
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Tue
10-JUl |
The big event for the day was a "Lunch Group" gathering at
Mimi's, we took Debbie with us and met
Lynn,
Both delightful Voyager residents. Joan Williams was their, she explained
that Walgreens gave her a new fan that I had tried to fix. |
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Tue
17-Jul |
Wake up at 6:00am to loud screeches from the Air Conditioner, the
next thing was that it was not running, so grab the tool and head for the roof,
remove 60 screws, the fan won't turn, add oil still won't turn so I return to
make some calls, Maggie at La Mesa can get a motor by tomorrow. Have you ever
sat in an RV in AZ sun with no AC. So I grab more tools and return to the roof,
where I am attacked by a evil flying thing the size of a bird, as I run about on
the roof, dancing over sky lights, I stop and connect with a vicious backhand!,
it's gone. I remove more screws and give it a few squirts of WD40, and magic it
spins. Great now how long will it last? Replace or not? |
Coleman Part # 1468-3069,
FASCO# 7855MVA-A11U (8333 series) |
Sun
22-Jul |
The new motor is stored in the basement, the next week is will require
preparations for the trip back east. The weather brings a small shower nearly
everyday, |
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Mon
23-Jul |
Over the weekend Bob and Sue had us over for a dinner, and it was pointed
out that relaxing around the pool can be thrilling in unexpected ways. We tried
our luck at the Casino, again - No Luck! |
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Wed
25-Jul |
Neighbors for 2 weeks checked out, kid worked for hours while dad watched,
Couldn't take it, had to go help, taking my crowbar to help pull stakes out of
his dish mount. Dad finally came over and thanked me for helping the kid
out, actually a nice guy, they are a full time family crisscrossing the country,
kids are 16 and being home schooled. Every day they went somewhere with books
and brought books home. Need more time to dig. |
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Sun
29-Jul |
Today we start our push east, through the sweltering heat in Texas, all
good-byes are said. The sun rises early in Tucson as it peeks over the
Catalina's. And it sets on the camp site in the Van Horn KOA |
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Mon
30-Jul |
Push on down the road to Junction TX, just 2 hrs short of San Antonio. But
not without running the desert on empty, bought 2$ WORTH of gas at Kent,
just enough to get to Balmorhea, TX. where they refused my Second $100 worth of
gas on my card. |
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Tue
31-Jul |
Waking up in Texas, No ugly ducklings here, as we visit the boys with their
Pic'm up trucks at the Sonic. Yipes, got the word that Jon & Misty just
got a new Camper, Forest River
Model 27RLSS |
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Wed
1-Aug |
Again, This RV park wants $5/day for Internet access, NAY, NAY, I used my PdNet
app and tethered my computer to the Net them used my Connectifi to link
other computers, and devices. San Antonio both 3G and 4G work well. (1.6M down)
and (5.44M down) respectively. |
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Thur
2/Aug |
A hard day of driving put us right in the middle of the great Louisiana swamp
just west of Baton rouge, critters and swamp folk. MLS drove and recorded
a record 6.7mpg, & $.50/mile, and we all know she don't poke along. Deep in
the swamp, a 1/2 bar flickering on the phone, Sprint 3G provides the Internet
for both computers. |
Aerial View of Atchafalaya Swamp
Freeway outside of Baton Rouge
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Fri
3-Aug |
Drove to Pensacola, a little rain but only here, none over at Destin, but we
found a good old Wal-Mart. an stalked up. |
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Sat
4-Aug |
Evan and company arrived, and we started a weeks worth of fun on the beach and
pool, all carefully scheduled between the reliable 60% showers. Evan
learned to ride the wave's, with daddy launching his board. Background
operations on phones, Ipads, and Printers resulted in confirmation that Misty
and Jon had sold their house. Lots of exercise as Evan zoomed around Topsail
Hill State Park on his two wheeler. |
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Sat
11-Aug |
WE broke camp as Misty headed out of the rain, 9 hrs. to Bowling Green, while JW & ML made it
6hrs to Cullman,
AL. then 7 hrs. to Walton KY.(I-75&I-71) All toll it's 14hrs of straight
driving. |
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Sun
12-Aug |
then 7 hrs. to Walton KY.(I-75&I-71) All toll it's 14hrs of straight
driving. Camped at Oak Creek, cute place and busy. |
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