Taking A Day Off
I’ve been putting in a lot of hours at the keyboard every day, trying to get the sequel to Big Lake finished, and I was getting cabin fever. So yesterday I took a much needed day off. Our friends Stu...
View ArticleAnother Issue Done
Miss Terry finished proofing the new issue of the Gypsy Journal yesterday, and about 5:30 PM I made the last of the corrections and uploaded it to the printer’s web server. They will go over it again...
View ArticleSlacker Nick
I’m glad I don’t have a boss to report to, except Miss Terry, because yesterday I didn’t accomplish one darn thing. That’s right, I was a total slacker. A waste of skin. Just taking up space on old...
View ArticleOutlaws And Inlaws
What a difference a day and 285 miles make. When we left the Vicksburg Elks Lodge about 10 a.m. yesterday morning we were wearing sweatshirts to ward off the chill. When we got off the road at 6 p.m....
View ArticleDead Man Talking
Yesterday started with an e-mail from an RVing friend, asking if I had heard anything about Mac McCoy, who has taught RV fire safety seminars at RV rallies and shows. There was apparently a rumor going...
View ArticleRVing Friends Are The Best
One of the greatest things about the RV lifestyle is that we have been blessed with so many wonderful friends. And many times those friendships are stronger than the ones we had with people in our old...
View ArticleThe Days Dwindle Down
To just a precious few. Yes, it won’t be long until our visit here in our old hometown is over and we’ll be heading down the road again. It’s always bittersweet – we love visiting my daughter and her...
View ArticleEt Tu, Terry?
Yesterday was the last day of the kite festival, and a little after noon we went to town and walked out on the beach to get one last look at all of the fun. There were a lot of kites flying, though not...
View ArticleWhere Did The Day Go?
Where did yesterday go? I think I must have blinked and missed it. It was like, I woke up, I brushed my teeth, and ten minutes later it was time to brush my teeth and go back to bed. Of course, it...
View ArticleWell Done, Heartland
When some 50 employees at Heartland RV in Elkhart, Indiana were called off the job this week and told to report to the company’s main building, they must have wondered what was going on. Especially...
View ArticleGetting In And Getting Out
I get a lot of e-mails from people who are just getting into the fulltime RV lifestyle and have questions about everything from which state to chose as their legal domicile to what kind of RV is best...
View ArticleI Need A Woman!
Well, actually, I don’t need a woman. I already have the best one in the world. But that was what a fellow told me yesterday when he said we should add a dating column for single RVers to our website...
View ArticleGreat Views And New Friends
Yesterday we got to see a lot of breathtaking views, made some new friends, and had seafood for dinner. It just doesn’t get any better than that! // ]]> I’ve been in every state in the country...
View ArticleCrunch Crunch
For the last few days Terry has had a very stiff neck and a nagging headache. By Thursday evening it was so bad it was making her sick to her stomach and she said her whole body ached. So I asked the...
View ArticleWatching The Weather
It’s a fact of life that wherever you do your RVing you are occasionally going to have to deal with bad weather. We have been in monsoons in the Arizona desert that can fill dry riverbeds with raging...
View ArticleNot A Safe Place
What has happened to the world? Have we all become a population of total wimps? Every day I end my blog with a thought for the day. Yesterday’s was “You can tell a lot about a woman from her hands. For...
View ArticleSome People
I get well over 100 emails a day, and sometimes twice that many. A lot of them are spam that somehow makes it through all of my spam filters, a certain amount are forwards and junk like that that I...
View ArticleThere’s No Place Like Home
After everything that happened to us in the last week, when I got up early Saturday morning to talk to somebody at Rush Truck Center in Jacksonville, Florida, where we had been towed in the night...
View ArticleYou Decide What’s True
Let’s have a little experiment today. I’m going to tell you three things and write a short paragraph about each of them. Only one of those things is true. It’s up to you to decide which one it is....
View ArticleSorry, Here’s Some Reality
A blog reader new to the RV lifestyle wrote to me to stay that they have been really disappointed in the campgrounds they have been staying at because the sites are very close together. He said when he...
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