It is amazing what you think about while you are doing mundane chores. Case in point; as I was dumping the tanks today, standing by Charlie, letting the black tank flush, I thought it would be a good idea to share with anyone interested how we have our water set up. There is any number…
”What about our pictures?”
I got bitten by the shutterbug at an early age. When I turned seven, my parents gave me a Kodak Instamatic camera for my birthday. I did not have the camera long before they took it back from me again. I took pictures of everything, and getting a roll of film developed back then was…
Whew! 2 (Colorado to South Dakota) and the saga of a right versus a left
So, with the ramps securely in place on the tow dolly and having averted treating every driver going north on I-76 to a pyrotechnic shower of sparks, we left Pikes Peak RV Park behind Saturday morning May 5 on our way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We needed gas, and there was a Costco on…
Whew! (Arizona to Colorado)
It has been a while since I last posted here. That is not because I haven’t had anything to say, but more because we have been busy. When last I wrote, we were crossing the two-month mark and were still in Mesa Arizona at the Mesa Regal RV Resort. We were there for a…
Downsizing and shucking “stuff”
This past weekend we took the final step in getting rid of most of our “stuff” and leaning down to being fully self-contained in Charlie, our RV. It has been a process of months and has required quite a bit of attitude adjustment. However, after losing all four of our parents in the space of…
One month in…
Today is our one month anniversary living in Charlie. We have not gotten on the road yet. Charlie’s travels so far have been from Montgomery Alabama, where we picked him up, to Edmond Oklahoma. That said a month is a month, and we have learned some lessons and had some surprises. As such, I thought…
Tom Sawyer Mississippi River Park
As I ended in a previous post, we were just making our roundabout way to Tom Sawyer’s Mississippi River Park. Once we got back on the right road, things were much better; however, despite the signs telling us we were on the right path, we still questioned ourselves and each other if we were or…
A philosophical interlude
I know there is nothing new here, Solomon said there was nothing new under the sun, so there is no reason to think this will be. I also know that all this has been said before, and better, by people throughout time. Still, as Zig Ziglar once said and I often quote, “We do not…
Homeward bound – part deux
Mireille worked in the CCU at a hospital in Oklahoma City for 20 years. In that time she came to know a lot of people. One of the people that she knows is still her doctor. When she was in seeing him the last time the subject of Charlie and our impending adventure came up….