tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679608844233637362024-03-13T15:20:48.284-05:00Mark and Patty RV AdventuresThis is our blog that follows our life into and as full-time RVers.Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.comBlogger367125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-89377438105811420282019-01-01T09:33:00.000-06:002019-01-01T09:33:13.913-06:00Our full time RV adventure is over<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>October 22 – December 16, 2018:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A lot has happened since the last post. This is the first time since leaving NJ and heading back down to Florida that I have had a chance to write. In the past 6 weeks we sold the 5th wheel and truck and purchased a Nissan Armada and a used 32 foot travel trailer. We are also fully moved into our North Port Florida house. So, we have fully transitioned to part time RV use now, well sort of. We have not yet picked up the travel trailer, next week, and used it. To say the least, it has been sort of a whirlwind of a time for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To start off where the last post left off we were heading back to Florida from north New Jersey. It was already getting cold up north so we wanted to move pretty quick back south. And quick we did, we arrived back in Florida to store the rig just 5 days (4 nights) after leaving NJ. We left North NJ on Monday and we were pulling into North Port Florida on the following Friday afternoon. For us that was almost a record move of 1200 miles. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The thing was it really didn’t get warm until we actually crossed the border into Florida our last day. Two of our night stays we didn’t have water after dark because it was too cold and just about freezing! We have been doing this for over 6 years so we knew what to do before we even left NJ. We partially filled our fresh water tank so we would have water for essentials if the weather got too cold. We also made sure we have full tanks of propane for heat. The thing is, in the north the campgrounds that are still open start to shut off their water this time of year. We didn’t really need the propane as our electric fireplace kept us warm enough. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our last night to sleep in our 5th wheel was Thursday October 25th in Jacksonville Florida. We didn’t talk about it as we didn’t know yet what was going to happen as we stopped moving the 5th wheel around. I got up from bed on Friday morning and just said out loud “well that’s it, last time in that bed!” It’s a little sad now to reflect on it but for the past 7 weeks we have been so busy that we have not really thought about it very much. We have been mainly just focused on making the transition as quick as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty found this campground just 8 miles from our new home in North Port called the Myakka River RV Resort. As one would figure out, it is located on the Myakka River. Anyway they had a place for us to park the 5th wheel so we could unload it. They also have very cheap storage rates of just $40 a month! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Friday the 26th of October we set up our 5th wheel for the last time at the Myakka River RV Park. We will have the RV parked here for 3 nights to unload it. It was a bit weird but it felt like we were just setting up and then off to explore the area. Well yeah, that is what we are doing but we are also moving into a house!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had originally thought that we could move everything out of the RV in a day and then have the next day to clean. Well <b><i>hahahahahahahahaha</i></b>! Dragging all of our stuff out of the RV through the small RV door and down the steps and then on to the truck, driving 8 miles, and then unloading was very tiring and time-consuming. Basically, we could just do one load a day and that took us about 4 hours each time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Monday, the last day we were to be on the site, we arrived early at 7:30am. We still had stuff to get out of the RV before moving it to storage. We also needed to do some cleaning after we got all of the stuff out. 11am was the move time and we were still not done! We realized that we could not load up the truck completely because we still needed space to hitch up the RV for the move to storage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By 10:30am we were putting stuff on the ground as the truck was full already. At 11am we had everything out and we started to clean up the RV. We did the best we could but we didn’t do as good as we would have liked. Then at noon we hitched up and moved the RV across the park to storage. I think it is sadder now than it was then. It was a very tight spot to get turned around in and then to back the unit into the space but we got it done! After spotting it in its space we sprayed a lot of insect spray around all of the items that touched the ground as well as spraying the perimeter of the inside for ants. We were finally ready to leave around 1pm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the next week we got around 20 hits on the RV and truck for sale. Most were people who didn’t have any money! On the second week we had a woman and a guy on Facebook ask about them who seemed like they were for real. Both wanted to see the RV and truck on the same day! The woman was first at 10am and she really wanted the RV and truck so shee gave us a 10% deposit! We called the other interested party and told him it was sold.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Interesting thing here was that the deposit was on a check and we needed to wait until she had the money in the bank before we could cash it. The money was to be available next week. The woman seemed credible to us so we took the deal as we still had possession of the RV and truck so we really were not out anything except that they were off the market now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A week went by and no money, but excuses and promises. We decided to wait until the end of the month, November, before getting too excited about the deposit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then on Monday of the start of the second week the woman said she would have all of the money tomorrow, Tuesday. We were a bit excited but also a bit apprehensive. I had told the woman that I was getting an oil change on the truck before she got it so now I needed to get it done tomorrow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Tuesday morning I had an appointment to get the oil changed at Ford at 10am. While I was in the waiting room the full sale money was wire transferred into our checking account! Now it was real!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the oil change I went home and picked up Patty and we went to a local Enterprise to get a rental car. Then we both went to the RV storage site to meet up with the new owner. The new owner is new to 5th wheels so I agreed to move it to where she has a space for it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We ended up moving it about 50 miles south to North Fort Myers. I backed it into a residential front yard and that was that, I unhitched the truck and parked it just in front of the RV. Patty leveled the RV and we were done! Full time RVing was history for us. Yeah - sad a bit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK, no time to be too sad about anything. We needed to get a new vehicle and a smaller travel trailer. We had the rental car leased for a week and we really didn’t want to extend that too much. We originally thought we would get the trailer squared away first and then get the tow vehicle. Getting what we want in a travel trailer was much harder than we thought. There are many RV dealers within a 50-mile radius. We were just not finding what we wanted. So we decided to concentrate more on the tow vehicle so we could get rid of the rental.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We wanted a large SUV with a tow range up to at least 8500 lbs. This would allow us to tow a travel trailer in the 7500 GVWR range. This would be a dry weight around 5500 lbs. Originally we were looking at a Dodge Durango until we saw that it had the lowest fuel economy. It actually had a fuel usage the same as our Ford 450! It was not diesel but took premium gas! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So we moved to looking for a late model Ford Expedition or maybe a new 2018 left over. However, we just couldn’t find one with what we wanted. Not all of the Expeditions had a tow package and we wanted one that was not black, including the interior. After a few days looking and calling dealers we began to look at other vehicles with high tow ratings. There are just a few in that tow range; Tahoe, Yukon, and the Armada by Nissan. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After just a day of looking and having way too many dealers’ texting, emailing, and calling we settled on a new 2018 Nissan Armada. Whew!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We picked up the Armada this last Monday, the 10th, and then 2 days later we traveled across the state to Titusville, 200 miles away, to look at a used travel trailer we saw online. We didn’t like the one we went to see but purchased another one we had not even considered. It is a 32 foot Coachman Freedom Express. We pick it up next week on Friday just before Christmas. We are planning to spend one or 2 nights in the trailer on the way back to our house after picking it up. We are not familiar with travel trailers at all. So this is a new learning curve for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">During our first week at our new house in Florida my daughter Jennifer and her husband Christian visited for a few days. That was really nice to have them here! We took a couple day trips to see the area. One day we went to see the Edison & Ford homes in Fort Myers about 50 miles south. On another day we rented a pontoon boat on the Myakka River. We toured the intercoastal area between Venice and Boca Grande Island. That was a great day on the water!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Our pontoon for the day. It was a little scary as I had not captained one of these since our days living on Lake Hopatcong NJ. It had been about 10 years since taking a boat out on the water. It came back pretty quick!</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>We stopped for lunch on an island that was only accessible by boat</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We spent a large amount of time getting the house the way we want it for us. Since living in an RV for so long we didn't have any furniture or interior decor at all. So we bought all new stuff! This was the first time for both of us to furnish a house from scratch with stuff we wanted instead of using stuff acquired over time. It was fun and still is!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>This was so cool! Patty found these stick on decals online</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for the future, we are taking a Caribbean cruise in a couple weeks and then heading to our RV site in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas a couple days after we get back from the cruise. We are planning to be at our site in Texas for about 2 months. Our plan is to sell the lot in Texas either during our time there or just after. This will be our last time wintering in south Texas. Yes, that is sad too! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just to reminisce a bit about where we are and where we started this chapter of our lives. We retired in 2011 and started full time RVing in 2012. At that time we had no idea what was ahead. We planned to at least full time for 5 years. That was really the only plan. We originally thought we would winter a different place each winter. Our first was south Florida and then we went to south Texas the following year. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We originally planned to stay 2 winters in south Texas, one at the park where we are now and one at a nearby park. That didn’t happen as we made friends at our current park so we eventually leased a site there with the idea that we may decide to live there in the 5th wheel if we decide to quit traveling. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last year we went on a very long trip from coast to coast and to Alaska. We have now stayed in all 50 states and 5 provinces of Canada. Patty has had a hard time medically with our constant traveling. It’s not the travel but the non-consistent medical treatment that has been an issue. We have also had issues with the lower level of medical care of the Rio Grande Valley. So we decided last year around Christmas that we were going to purchase a house in Florida and move on to part-time RVing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, this year, 2018, has been an unbelievable year for us! We left our site in south Texas at the beginning of March and headed west to an RV rally in Nevada and then to visit friends in LA and San Diego. From there we traveled along the southern border back to Florida in May. We spent a month in Florida and bought a house in North Port. We spent a week getting the house ready for us to leave it while we continue to travel. We left the house without ever having slept in it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We left Florida the first week of June and headed up to Indiana to visit with family for about a month. We managed to take a short trip of about a week to an amusement park in Ohio with one of the granddaughters. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then in July we went to New Jersey to visit friends and more Family. Here we took 3 weeks out of our 2 months here and moved Patty's son Chas to our house in Florida. We left our 5th wheel parked in NJ while we did the round trip of 2400 miles to Florida. We finally slept in the new house on the floor!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the begi</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">nning of October we left NJ and went to a wedding in Ohio and then back to Indiana again to get work done on the RV in prep for selling. We also took a little detour and visited with family again in Indiana.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had a buyer showing some interest in the RV and truck in NJ so we went back there, but that fell through. And then here we are back in Florida by the end of October!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The original premise of this BLOG was to inform about our transition to living in an RV and then living on the road in an RV. Well, we just transitioned back to landed living in a house after a little over 6 years. It really has been a GREAT run and a wonderful adventure! I just don’t know if we can top this again! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK, as for the BLOG, I am thinking of this as the last post. This will make the 367th BLOG post covering our 6+ years of full-time RV living. And yes that is a bit sad but our new life is going to be a bit more pedestrian in nature, not really BLOG material. We are planning to travel more out of the country as well and a bit more in the RV, fun stuff but not the uniqueness that our life on the road was.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-11036737175534469352018-11-10T11:28:00.002-06:002018-11-10T11:28:54.034-06:00Checking up on my son and Grandkids, RV Repair finally and last minute trip back to NJ!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>October 08 - 21, 2018: </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We figured that we would spend some time with my son and the grandkids before heading back to Florida. We were close enough, just 180 miles after the wedding in Cincinnati, so we traveled a little west for a last visit this year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My son Tony was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver just a couple months ago. We were just here in Indiana visiting with him and the kids 3 months ago so it was a shock for us when he was diagnosed. He didn’t look or really seem sick when we there last! So we are going for a visit to see if we can help out a little.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tony is not working and it looks like he won’t be able to in at least the near future. They have applied for disability but that takes time to get. Sometimes it can take 6 months to a year to get! His mom started a Facebook fund me page to help out some for them. We did what we could with fixing their car and getting groceries and some with the grandkids clothing. We felt pretty good that they would be OK for a while and could focus on health.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were in Crawfordsville for a whole of 3 days. We wanted to stay longer but the campground was full over the weekend due to the local Covered Bridge Festival 30 miles away. I had not been to the festival since I was in high school so I was looking forward to going. Oh well, not this time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On our last day Patty decided to call our RV manufacturer, Prime Time, in Wakarusa Indiana for help with the shower pan. Wow, they came through for us! When Patty gave her name they right away had our information as well as the VIN number of our RV. They told us that they had a pan available and that we should give John’s RV Repair a call to put it in. Patty called John at John’s and he said he would get the pan and install it the next day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, we can’t say enough about how well we have been treated over the years by Prime Time. All through the 2 year warranty we had a personal representative who bent over backwards to help us. And now, 4 years past warranty and they not only still keep information on us but go all out to help us again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And then there is John of John’s RV Repair in Elkhart Indiana who was also great. John opened up his shop to do the shower pan replacement on Saturday with just a days’ notice! We arrived there at 7:30am and then we went for breakfast. By 11:30am he was done! What a difference from the way we were treated by RV Specialties last week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Evil Czech has a unique Sunday brunch happy hour. You pay a set price for a food buffet but the buffet is quite different. The food is all small amounts that are plated. The idea is to walk around the food and just pick up the plates you want and eat at your table. Food was very good above average stuff. We would go again if we are back in that area.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Safe travels Steve and Dianne!</span></i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While we were in Elkhart we got a message from a couple in New Jersey who were interested in purchasing our truck and RV. Actually they had contacted us a couple weeks ago and made an offer that we believed to be too low for us. Since we wanted more for our rig they wanted to see them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We agreed to head back to NJ near them in north Jersey. We were already just off of I80 in north Indiana so all we had to do was travel the 700 miles across Ohio and Pennsylvania to a campground just inside NJ. It was a little out of our way but not a lot. From Indiana we still needed to head east about 150 miles anyway so what are another 550 miles and an extra 3 days to maybe sell the rig!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We took our time making the trip from Indiana to New Jersey. We traveled our usual ~230 miles and stayed 2 nights. Traveling this way it would take us 5 days with 2 stops, one in Ohio and one in PA. The only thing was that the temperature has now dropped a lot! We had temps in the 80s while in Indiana and as we left the temps had dropped into the 40s for highs. Our nights in PA were near freezing so they turned off the water overnight. They did come around and warn us about turning off the water first. It was okay as we had water in our tanks for the night. We are way too far north for us this time of year!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our first overnight in Ohio we had an electrical issue! We got all set up and Patty said that the microwave was not powered. After a little investigation we found that the refrigerator and the electric fireplace were not powered either. CRAP! We need that fireplace for heating at night. I checked the obvious stuff like the circuit breakers and I tried another outside receptacle with no change. So then for the first night we didn’t use the microwave and the fridge just continued to run on propane. I plugged the fireplace into another outlet with an extension cord. So we were good for the night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next day I got busy troubleshooting the electrical issue. At first I thought it may have something to do with the slide that was common for the fridge and the microwave. However, the fireplace was in a different slide. Also, the display on our power management system showed that there was power on both legs of the 50 amp line coming into the RV. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first thing I did was to take a look under the 2 slides and see if there was any issue there. I had had an issue in the past with an electrical cable bundle coming in contact with the tire during travel. I found this cable bundle with a large wear area a couple years ago and repaired it. This cable had again dropped down and there was wear on the cable insulation. After an hour of cutting wire ties and taking off cable hangers I was able to inspect the wear area closer. Yes the cables needed to be rearranged to hang higher and the cables needed to be repaired. But, this was not the answer to the problem.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now I needed a new direction to look for the problem. I decided to check the wiring in the breaker panel in the RV next. A few years ago I had a problem with loose AC wires in the panel. After removing the breaker panel cover and inspecting the wiring it all seemed good. OK, now time for my volt meter! I found that there was no power on one leg of the 2 legs coming into the panel. The power management display showed that there was power at least coming to it in the RV. So the problem must be between the power management system and the panel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ok, now this is going to be a pain in the ass as this area is in the basement and it is loaded with stuff! There are 2 things in between the outside of the RV and the circuit breaker panel, the power management system itself and the changeover switch for the generator. Right here I could have saved myself a lot of time. I should have fired up the generator to see if the problem was still there. If it was then the problem would most likely be at the changeover switch. If it went away then it would be either the switch or at the power management system. Of course I didn’t run the generator because I like to be tortured! I went for the power management system first. It was the easiest place to go first. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To get to the management system I had to take all of our stuff out of a small part of the basement so I could take off a small wall to the cables. Then I had to twist myself into this small hole I made to get the 6 small screws out of the management cover. Guess what, after an hour of this torture I found nothing wrong here! Now is when I thought about running the generator. With the generator running the problem was still there. This means that neither the generator nor the outside power was getting to the circuit breaker panel. And since the wiring was perfect at the breaker panel the problem must be in the changeover switch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK, so now I am getting closer to finding the problem. I now need to get closer to the changeover switch which is on the other side of the basement behind the larger wall. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>To get at the changeover switch I needed to take most everything out of the basement and then remove the large wall.</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now I have the basement mostly empty and the wall removed. The switch is next to the furnace with 6 flex heating ducts running directly on and over the cover to the switch. Luckily there are only 2 screws to remove to get inside the switch. After getting the cover off I can see the problem right away. One of the output wires had come out of the switch connection. It appeared that the 3 output wires were cut with one shorter than the other, the short one is the one coming out of the switch connection. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In order to get this wire back into the switch I had to remove the other 2 wires and cut them shorter to all be equal in length so I could push them into place and secure them. This was a pain to do as the wire is a large diameter and lightly stranded making it very stiff and hard to move. Couple this with the 6 flex heating ducts over the top, it was a real pain to do this but I got it done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, after about 4 hours I have the electrical fixed but I have to put everything back together. I also need to fix the under slide cable that was coming in contact with the tire. Just another 2 hours and I was finally done and just in time as it was nearing dark! Just another day on the road with an RV!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After 5 days and 4 nights we finally arrived in NJ at the Triple Brook Campground near Blairstown on Friday the 19th of October. We are here for the next 3 nights, the last night, Sunday, the place is closed. They close for the season on the 21st but they agreed to let us stay the night. They gave us a nice space in the front in the back row. It is perfect to show the RV on Sunday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are only here in NJ to show the RV to a prospective buyer on Sunday. They made an initial offer to which we countered. They made an offer on the entire rig which included the truck. With our counter offer they wanted to see the truck and the RV so we set up this appointment for them to see it. Patty was pretty sure they would buy but me being the pessimistic one wasn’t so sure about that. We shall see on Sunday!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saturday we spent the day getting the RV ready to show. It is a little hard to show an RV that you currently live in, basically because it is packed full of your stuff! We also had the stuff we had stored at my brother’s house in Indiana that we were taking to our new house in Florida. That was an extra 6 large bins that we had to put somewhere. We had already steam cleaned the carpet at our last stop in PA a couple days ago. We also wanted to lessen the clutter in the basement and the closets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We utilized the under bed storage for most of our closet stuff. That way the walk-in closet was really a walk-in and you could actually see the second dresser in the back. This made the under bed storage completely full but it was better to have the closet uncluttered we felt. As for the extra 6 bins and basement stuff, they went under the RV mostly in the back. So that took care of the clutter issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That night on Saturday we got together with my daughter Jennifer and Son-in-Law Christian for dinner. They live not too far from where we are in Blairstown. We had a nice dinner at the Walpack Inn after waiting for over 2 hours on a table. Seems everyone had the same idea to come out on a nice Saturday fall evening for dinner. The Walpack is only open Friday through Sundays and are closed in the winter. The restaurant is very secluded in the northwestern section of very rural New Jersey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our prospective buyers showed up on time at 2 pm on Sunday afternoon. They first looked at the inside and then we headed outside to check the RV exterior. On the exterior walk around it became apparent to me that they were not ready to buy yet. They are also looking at an older 2009 Montana but with a much newer 2013 F350 truck. Ours is a 2013 Sanibel which is pulled by a 2008 F450. The Montana and the Sanibel are basically the same size units. They were still thinking about which they wanted, a newer truck or a newer 5th wheel. They just were not ready to make the leap at either one at this time. It sucks for us but it is what it is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now we will need to take the rig to Florida and store the Sanibel if we don’t get it sold before we get to Florida over the next week. Our plan is to leave on Monday and arrive back in Florida over the next weekend depending on how fast we decide to travel. We are a little over 1200 miles away from our house in Florida here in NJ.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-91509542121943908312018-10-16T12:17:00.001-05:002018-10-16T14:37:11.057-05:00Botched RV repair in Wakarusa IN / Wedding in Cincinnati OH<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>September 30 - October 07, 2018: </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We left New Jersey and headed west through Pennsylvania and Ohio to Elkhart Indiana, RV capital of America. We made arrangements 3 months ago with Recreational Specialties to have our shower pan replaced on the 3rd of October. We sent them pictures of the pan as well as the VIN number of our RV so they could get the correct part. We were in a hurry as we were going to a wedding in Cincinnati Ohio the coming weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We arrived on the afternoon of the 2nd of October at the Elkhart County Fairgrounds for our appointment with Recreational Specialties in Wakarusa on the 3rd. We traveled the 750 miles in a 3 day set of bump and run overnights to get here. We were ready to get this over with and get to Ohio for the weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next morning our appointment at Recreational Specialties was at 9am and we wanted to be early. Since we can pick sites here we picked up our site like we wouldn’t be back; little did we know! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recreational Specialties was just 20 minutes away so we headed out at 8am and arrived by 8:30. Recreational Specialties is a fairly big place as far as RV repair places go. We parked and I headed inside to get things moving. Things were going pretty well as they knew who I was and they had the paperwork all ready. We just had to wait on “Miss Megan” who was in a meeting. I was told via phone and by e-mail that “Miss Megan” was the one who was in charge for the most part. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Miss Megan came out and addressed me by name and knew I was the one for the shower pan replacement. So far so good! She wanted to inspect the old shower pan and see it for herself, hmmmm. I just started to feel like this was going to go downhill. We took a look at the shower pan in our RV and then she said she would need to see if they could get the pan today. Ok, WTF! We made the appointment 3 months ago so you could have the part. You have the RV VIN number and pictures so you could make this happen. She told me that they just can’t stock all of the shower pans that are out there. Again, WTF!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She asked me to move the RV into their staging area while she went in to check on the pan availability. After about 15 minutes she came out and told us that it would be 2-3 weeks before she could get the part. She said that she was sorry that she could not help us and to have safe travels. OK, I was pissed off! This time I kept my cool and after telling her “we are done here” we pulled out to head south to Cincinnati a day early.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty, over the next few days posted on every internet site she could think of about our negative experiences at Recreational Specialties. The next day she got a response from Scott at Recreational Specialties offering an apology of sorts. He said that he could have gotten the part if we had not of rushed off. W.T.F.!! What did he think we were going to do after being told they couldn’t get the part and wished safe travels?! He went on to say that if we come back he would install the shower pan for us at cost. Now we are 200 miles south and have other plans. We figure that Scott wrote this to us on a public site (Facebook) so he could look better. Patty didn’t let that stand though and beat him up again after 4 attempts to contact him via phone and text.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Enough said for now about the botched RV repair and on to the Cincinnati wedding. The wedding is for a childhood friend of Patty’s son Chas, Chris Chasty. Chas and his friends used to hang out in our basement in New Jersey a lot. Many times he had dinner with us too. Anyway, he is marrying his longtime girlfriend Mary Thompson who he met in college at Rutgers. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>We only had this site the first night and then we had to move sites.</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>On my walk I found this decked out Halloween permanent site</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Thursday the 4th we picked Chas up at the airport in Kentucky. He flew up from our house in Florida. Not much of a difference in weather for him as this area was having a heat wave, hottest in over 20 years for this area! We were having 90+ days with overnights in the 70s in October in Ohio! The great thing was that this was to continue all through the wedding weekend!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That evening we got together with the Groom Chris and the bride Mary and Chas at a Cincinnati Brewery called the Madtree. This place was huge and great. Don't think I have ever been in a larger microbrewery! Oh yeah, they have great thin crust coal-fired pizza. What more can one ask for!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Basically on Friday Patty and I just did some everyday chores. We went to Walmart in Florence KY. Weird Walmart as it was really modern on the outside but very old on the inside! Got what we needed so it was fine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The wedding was at a Russian Orthodox Church. This was a first for us as it was for most who attended. The entire service was done standing up; the church does not have pews. All of their services are done standing up! The actual service lasted a little over an hour but we were there about 2 hours due to an attendee falling down with a seizure in the beginning of the service! Yeah, that added some drama to the event! The service was basically sung too! Very different from any weddings we have been too.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>They are led around the altar to the left a few times <br />and then around to the right a few times.</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The reception was held at the Metropolitan Club in Covington Kentucky right on the Ohio River. The place had great views of the river! I think the toasts were some of the most emotional we had heard at a wedding too! Chris and his new wife certainly have some very great friends. It was a very good time indeed and many thanks to Chris and Mary for inviting us!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>The wedding party</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next day we are set to leave and head to Crawfordsville where my son Tony and family are. It is just a short 180 mile trip. However, there was an after reception party that Chas attended and now he needed a ride to the airport from where he was in Covington KY. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So we left at 10am to get him 20 minutes away and deliver him to the airport another 20 minutes away. Overall the trip would be an hour to hour and a half and our check out at Oak Creek was at noon. It was doable but would be close. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It wasn’t to be though as Chas had issues getting himself out of the hotel he was in so we got back to the campsite just a few minutes before noon. I decided it was just too much to hurry out so we stayed another night and made an early start the next morning.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-62208590626462625112018-10-05T09:40:00.001-05:002018-10-05T09:40:19.761-05:00Back to NJ for a few weeks and Unexpected Family Sickness<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>August 25 – September 30, 2018: </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s been a month since we have made a post, just waiting for a good time to mark a timeframe. So we are making this for the entire time we here in NJ before leaving to head west and then ultimately back to Florida. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The thing is we haven’t done a lot since we have been back. However, a lot has happened around us! First, my son Tony has been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver and he is just 41! Yes, that was 3 weeks ago and a major shock! He had been having appetite issues and then nausea and blood in the stool. The blood in the stool and vomiting blood took him to to the emergency room. He had lost so much blood that he was airlifted to a hospital 50 miles away in Indianapolis IN where they had more blood for him. He was in the hospital for about a week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He is having a lot of fluid buildup in his abdomen that is related to the cirrhosis that needs to be drained periodically. So far this has been about twice a week for him. The hope is that this can be brought under control and the draining will not happen so frequently. Being end-stage liver disease, he will be on a transplant list in a few months. We are planning to visit him and his family (wife & grandkids) before heading down to Florida in October.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The other thing happening here is the weather. We have not been in the northeast this time of year for the past 7 years so it is a little different for us. It went from being in the 90s and actually hotter than our place in Florida to now barely getting to 70 and raining. We are now having temperatures in the 50s at night. The good thing is that we are getting to experience a little fall but hopefully not any more than that before heading south in another couple weeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As stated in our last post, we have our RV and truck up for sale. We have had some inquiries but no offers as of yet. We have made arrangements at a campground near our house in Florida to park for a few days while we unload and clean it up. Then we are moving it to a storage lot. Just writing that feels sad! It has been our home for the past 6+ years! The thing that helps is that after we get it sold we plan to purchase another RV, just smaller. We also plan to purchase another tow vehicle, a large SUV. The transition out of full time RVing is not near as much fun as the starting out phase! We had similar feelings when we sold our home in northern New Jersey before we started our full-time life in our current RV. We will get through it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK, back here in NJ over the past few weeks I have accomplished a few maintenance items on the RV. I finished the last of the roof seam resealing jobs. Last year I resealed with Dicor all but one of the roof seams. The exception was the large front one that connects the rubber roof to the fiberglass front cap. This seal was a year newer than the other roof seals. It had been replaced when the front of the RV was reinforced during the warranty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also replaced all of the roof vent caps. The sun takes a toll on these caps and they are not very expensive so I just replaced them. I think the cost was under $40 for all of the caps. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another thing I replaced was the remaining exterior slide seals. Last year I replaced most, like 70% of them and left the ones that still looked good. After another 16 months the remaining seals were showing signs of degradation so I replaced them. Again, it is the sun that just eats these rubber seals up. They tend to age according to how long they have been pointed toward the sun. The first ones last year were the ones that were in the sun the most while we wintered in Texas. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Replacing these seals is also not a difficult task to do. Remove a top and bottom retaining screw and then slide the rubber seal down a channel on the RV and off. Then, use the old seal to measure the amount you need from the roll of new sealing material and cut. Now reverse and slide the new one on where the old one was. Re-attach the new seal with the top and bottom retaining screws and you are done. Each slide has 3 of these seals, a top and 2 sides. I replaced one side seal on each of the 4 slides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then, this past week we went to see The Book Of Mormon on Broadway in New York City. We have wanted to see this show ever since it came out about 7 years ago. Now the prices are just expensive instead of ludicrous and we don’t need to wait for months to get a seat!</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-86420141800217114992018-08-31T06:24:00.000-05:002018-08-31T06:24:01.851-05:00Furnishing the Florida House<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>August 8 – 25, 2018: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are packed and ready for the quick move to Florida from our RV parked in New Jersey. We started out toward FL at about 10:30 am, a little later than the planned 9am leave time! We have 1200 miles to travel from Keyport NJ to our house in North Port FL. We planned on either 2 days or 3 days of travel depending on how much distance we could make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We ended up making the trip in 2.5 days! The first day we traveled to just south of the I95/295 junction in Petersburg Virginia. That was just 360 miles for the 9 hours for travel for the day! The traffic and construction from just before Baltimore MD and most of 295 around Washington DC was horrendous! We are already planning to do some other route when we return in a couple of weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second day we made much better time. We traveled all the way to Jacksonville Florida before calling it a day. We made 570 miles in 11 hours which included time for a sit down lunch of about an hour. That is what we had planned to do the first day. Anyway, this leaves us just 190 miles for the third and last day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We arrived at the house just after lunch time, around 1pm. And as expected, we already had packages sitting in our front screened in porch. Since we no longer own any type of home furnishings we are buying everything new and having it delivered in the next couple of weeks. The plan is to stay on top of the deliveries and get the stuff unboxed, assembled if needed, and moved into place ASAP. We didn’t want stuff to start to pile up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After moving the first boxes into the house I had to deal with the water issue. A couple of weeks ago we had the water shut off because water was coming out of our front yard and traveling across the sidewalk. It seems that the leach field was somehow being over saturated and then leaking out of the yard. With some outside help we determined that the issue was the master bath toilet continuously running. After turning on the water to the house, nothing was running except the suspect toilet. When I had left it in May it was running sometimes and just a little bit. Now it was running full bore! I had the thing adjusted and all is good now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are a few puzzling things about this house we have found. The master bath toilet is one of them. The puzzling thing about the toilet is that there seemed to be nothing wrong with it except it needed adjusting. How does that happen? This flush mechanism is not a standard the standard I am familiar with. The float was not adjustable. The adjustment was made in the height of the entire flush valve using presets. So, was the toilet always running in the past and the owners turned it off! Who knows!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another thing was the ceiling fan in the sitting area of the house. Its wall switch was wired around! The only way to turn it on was via the chain that we needed a ladder to get to. I opened the wall switch and found that the wires were taken off the switch and placed together via a wire nut! Why would someone do that?! I wired back in the switch and again, all is good!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The dining room doesn’t have any installed lights! It has a ceiling fan but no lights. How did anyone ever eat there?! On top of that, some past owner put in a new ceiling fan in the kitchen with lights when there was already 2 sets of lights there. We have nothing against more lights but it would have seemed the priority should have been putting the lights into the dining room. We ended up switching the ceiling fans from the kitchen and dining room and adding lights to the now new old kitchen fan. Weird!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One thing I have not got to yet is the ceiling area above the outside lanai area by the pool. The ceiling has 2 new looking electrical covers over what looks to be fan installs. Both have wall switches inside the house. At least here we think we have an explanation. We think that the original house had outside fans with lights and that over time they deteriorated with exposure to the pool and the chemicals. Instead of replacing them they just took them off and put up cover plates. That is a project for later though.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another issue was the remote keypad for the garage door. We found in the paperwork what the combination was but the remote didn’t work when we tried it. I figured that someone had changed the code and forgot to write it down. Well no, that wasn’t the case at all! I went on YouTube and found out how to reprogram the remote. But before doing the remote I thought I should just check the obvious and make sure it had a battery and that it was good. To my surprise the battery was not only missing but the 9 volt connector had been cut off! Now why the f@#k would somebody do that! To make sure the remote works I temporarily connected a new 9 volt to the wires and damn, it works!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The dishwasher leaked the first time we used it! The thing looks like it is new too. I let it fill up to where to point where it would leak and then opened the door. What I found was that the float switch was stuck. It looks like the dishwasher had not been used and the switch plunger dried completely out and was just stuck. All I had to do was flick it once and it worked. Had no one been using the dishwasher either?! All good now though.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lastly were the miscellaneous light bulbs that were left all over the house. The way the bulbs were left it looked like the owners had no idea what bulb to put where and didn’t finish the job either. Some of the new bulbs were left near where bulbs were burnt out but were the wrong bulbs. In other places the wrong bulbs were mixed in with other wrong bulbs and all burnt out! We now have all new correct LED bulbs in the house. Again, all is good!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All of this stuff is was trivial but really weird! The house is also extremely clean! I mean clean to the point it looks like it had not been lived in sort of clean! For instance, the back of the 11 year old refrigerator doesn’t have any dust on it. It looks brand new inside and out. Not even scratches on the plastic veggie drawers or below them. Not only did the ceiling fans not have dust on the blades there wasn’t any dust on the top of the motor 12 feet off of the floor! We are not complaining, just seems like the previous owners didn’t use the house very much and also didn’t fix simple things like lights when they burnt out. Strange!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK, now we are in the house the first afternoon and we have nothing to eat or drink in the house. We took care of the packages that were there when we arrived and then headed out to the local Publix for food and stuff. Since we didn’t even have salt in the house we had one of the largest grocery bills ever. The clerk who rung up the order said we had the largest bill of the day! She fully understood that we were just moving in. Then there was the thing I hate most about grocery shopping, putting it all away. It was even more tedious as we had to find places to put everything for the first time. That will probably change as time goes on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We arrived on a Friday and Fridays are garbage and recycling pickup in our area. So we had a whole week before we could get rid of the first batch of cardboard. The Styrofoam had to wait another week as the town alternates between the two each week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We went from empty house to full in about 10 days. I managed to get my 10k steps in most days, just in the house. And a little pool time to cool off too! It really was a great experience to furnish and decorate a house with mostly new stuff. All of our lives before was just moving our old stuff to a new place and replacing a little at a time. We fully knew this would happen 7 years ago when we got rid of everything we owned. We didn’t yet know just what we would do after living full time in an RV but we knew and had planned on having to purchase everything new if and when the time came. It was fun too especially after 7 years of not buying anything for a house.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Not all work! Took a short tour around Boca Grande about 30 minutes away</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After 15 days in the new Florida house we are 95% done moving into it. We still have loads of detail decoration type stuff to do. We also have to unload the big RV in October. Mostly this will be temporary storage until we get a new smaller RV. However, most of our clothes will be moved into the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our second day we got on the road by 8am. We like to be off the road by dark so we didn't want to travel after about 8pm. So we have 12 hours to travel 615 miles which should be very doable. We decide we would determine if we go the entire distance after we get through Baltimore. We took a slightly different route and didn't use 495 to go around DC this time. We stayed on I395 to I295 and back on to 495 to 95 north of DC. I would not say this was too much faster for us but it was a little better. W also go behind a car fire on 295 where we lost about 30 minutes. We finally arrived back in NJ after 615 miles at 8:45pm, almost 13 hours!</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-44783675891959870932018-08-22T13:48:00.001-05:002018-08-22T13:48:15.650-05:00New Jersey for a couple weeks before heading down to Florida<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>July 23 – August 8, 2018:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This will be a short post about our first couple of weeks in New Jersey. We will have our RV here in Keyport NJ for the next 10 weeks in our friends, Rob and Cindy’s, driveway. On the 8th of August we are traveling down to our new house in North Port Florida to move Patty’s son Chas there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We arrived in Keyport New Jersey about 2:30pm on the 23rd of July. This is our 7th time staying here during the summer. It is also the place we started out full time back in 2012. This will be the last time we will be here in our Sanibel too. And that is a little sad, but more on that later. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It has been very hot the past few days here and on our way to NJ. The temperature has been close to or at 100 with high humidity; in the 70-80 range. We keep track of the temperatures here and at our house in FL and the temperatures and humidity have been higher here in the north the past few days! Seems the biggest difference is the rain this time of year. It seems to rain almost every day in Florida during the summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had a little scare from our house in FL too. We got a call from the guy who cuts our grass to say that the sidewalk in front of our house had water running across it. This wasn’t just from the rain either, only the sidewalk in front of <u>our</u> house was wet! About this time I am kicking myself for not turning off the water before we left. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I asked our lawn guy Lance if he could look around and see if he could figure out anything. About 30 minutes later he called back to say that the water was not coming from inside the house, that was good news. Other than that he had no idea about where the water was coming from except that it was coming from our yard! He suggested I call the town water utility and see if they could find anything out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I called the North Port Water Utility’s emergency number and right away got a very nice woman who said she would relay the message to a tech. Within the next 10 minutes the tech called and I gave him our address and what the issue was. He said he was just a few minutes from there and he would call me after he arrived. In another 10 minutes he called from our house. He reaffirmed that the water was not coming from the house but it was coming from the front yard. He said that water was running in the house though as the meter was running. He figures that we </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">may</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">have a toilet running in the house and it has filled the septic tank and is now running out the leach field in the front yard and now across the sidewalk. So I had him turn off the water to the house at </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the street and we will investigate when we are there in a few days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we were at the house before we went north I heard the master bath toilet running very slightly. I did try to fix it before we left 6 weeks ago and had thought it was not even leaking when we left. I am guessing that the toilet flush valve must have now later failed and was running full on. I can’t imagine the very tiny leak I heard would put that much water into the tank. So now we really want to get to the house to take a look ourselves!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are moving Patty’s son Chas down to our house in Florida to live there for a while. He is going to establish his life there and somewhat start over. When we went full time we had him move out when we sold the house. He was 23 at the time and not very independent. Our moving him out on his own made him independent. He has been on his own for the past 6 years and needs (we think) to start again. We have no idea if we are doing the right thing but we convinced him to move into our house and stay to maintain it while we are away. And for him to save money and start off in a better direction with everything. He wasn’t asking to do this but we just felt that he was just not getting anywhere doing what he was doing so we decided to help. We hope this works!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last few days we spent loading up a small trailer we are going to tow down to Florida with Patty’s son Chas’s stuff on it. The plan was for him to follow us in his car. It must have been fate, the day before we are going to leave for Florida we learn that his auto insurance company dropped him. Not only did they drop him but only a couple would even offer a quote to insure him at all and then at $9k a year! So basically he is now uninsurable! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are nearly finished packing him up when this happens so now we have to make room for him in the truck and we need to get his car to FL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We never thought we would be in this position of having a grown kid move back in and be without a car or job but that is what we have and we sort of asked for it. Are we crazy?! We hope not! The kid is a good kid and has a lot of potential and that is why we wanted to try and get him on the right track. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, for the next year and maybe longer we will not be in the house a lot. We still have a lot of places we want to travel to and things to do. Having someone in the house for us is better than leaving it vacant. We shall see!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So now, a little about selling the Sanibel and the truck. We plan to put them on the market in a few weeks. We want to sell the 5th wheel and the truck and then purchase a large SUV and tow a smaller travel trailer. We still want to land travel in the US and we want to do some travel outside the country not with an RV. Our plan is to travel a month or so and then back to the house for a few weeks and then out again. We still plan on doing the blog as we think we will have enough interesting travel as well as life transition stuff to write about. As with everything, it’s all subject to change.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-38638713139054156042018-08-07T08:01:00.001-05:002018-08-07T08:01:23.409-05:00Visiting friends in Eastern Indiana and on to New Jersey<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>July 19 - 23, 2018:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are on our way for a short trip across Indiana to Centerville. Centerville is just a few miles from the Ohio border making the trip for us just a short 100 miles. We do have to traverse the city of Indianapolis and all of the potholes Indiana has to get there though. Indianapolis is no real big deal but navigating the damn huge and frequent potholes is a big deal! If one is not very, very careful you can destroy your suspension in the potholes Indiana has on its highways. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We managed to make it through Indianapolis’s minor traffic and most of the potholes to land at the Sunshower RV resort in Centerville around 2pm. Our friends Mark and Mary work camp here during the summer. We met them and became friends at our winter place at Natures Resort in south Texas. Mary was working the office when we arrive so she answered the intercom at the gate when we pulled up. How cool is that! After getting us bussed in we met her and Mark as they arrived on a golf cart to show us our site for the next few days. We also have friends, Robin and Gene, who live in New Castle Indiana a few miles away, also from Natures in South Texas. We planned to meet up with them also while in the Centerville/New Castle area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In between the rain and mostly gloomy weather while we were there we did manage to spend some time with everyone just not as much as we would have liked. Friday night we went out to eat a very nice restaurant, the No. 9 Grill, in Cambridge City, with Robin and Gene. After dinner we all went back to our RV and visited for a while. It was a great time, just short!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Saturday we took a road trip to Oxford Ohio with Mary and Mark. Oxford is a cute little college (Miami University) town just a few miles from the Indiana/Ohio border. We had a nice lunch at Mac & Joe's and then some Ice Cream after for dessert. We walked the town square and then drove back. It was nice drive seeing the countryside with friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our original plans were to head to North Jersey for a Picnic that Patty had arranged for former work friends. The picnic turned out to be a bust as too many people had other plans at that time. It sucked a bit for us we fronted the money for the non-refundable pavilion where it was to be held. It is always a risk for these things during the summer months. There are only so many weekends in the summer so people have to plan carefully and it is hard to get a place to hold events for the same reason. Anyway, it is what it is. I seem to say that a lot anymore! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty also is having issues related to her mental health; depression and anxiety. This has been an ongoing issue for her since she was 13 years old but it has been much more pronounced since we have been full-time RV traveling. It’s not that she needs frequent care but she does need consistent care. Since we have been full time traveling she has been unable to get any mental health care, let alone consistent care. We started with health care in Indiana and they wouldn’t treat her since she wasn’t a resident! Next we tried our winter place in South Texas. We even became residents of Texas and still were not able to find mental health care. We are hoping that Florida is better.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, her symptoms seem to always increase as we travel. We are now closing in on 5 months on the road this year and Patty is in need of treatment. So we wrote off the NJ picnic all together and are arriving at our friends Cindy and Rob’s driveway a few days early. Patty is going to check in to a mental health hospital near their house for a while to get fixed up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After leaving Indiana we made 2 stops along the way to New Jersey. The first was in Belmont Ohio at the Barkcamp State Park for a 2 nighter. Our next stop was in Burnt Cabins Pennsylvania at the Grist Mill & Campground. This is a place we had stayed at a few years ago. We stayed here just one night before heading the last 150 miles to Cindy and Rob's in Keyport New Jersey.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-49684892698268998782018-07-25T07:26:00.000-05:002018-07-25T07:26:06.150-05:00Final 2 weeks with Family In Indiana for 2018<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>July 01 - 19, 2018: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last 2 (closer to 3 weeks) weeks in Crawfordsville Indiana took us through the 4th of July, granddaughter Savannah’s 15th birthday, my daughter Jennifer with husband Christian arriving, as well as other family type stuff. Sometimes it feels like life is standing still until you look back and see you have done a bunch of stuff together! This is one of those times. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We got back from Cedar Point and then the 4th was just around the corner. We had a BBQ at my son Tony’s house to celebrate the 4th. That seems to be enough for all of us as the temperatures were near 100 with humidity nearly as high. None of us really wanted to sit outside and watch fireworks this year due to that heat! So after some BBQ and some board games we headed back to our trailer and the sanctuary of AC. We got to see a few fireworks, from our window, and we certainly heard them too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the end of the week my daughter Jennifer and her husband Christian arrived from New Jersey. It’s not too often that both of my kids and I are in the same place so that was a memorable time! We got together and had a BBQ and we went to the Indy Zoo as some of the fun stuff we did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In a few weeks we will be in NJ and visit with Jennifer again so we tried to make sure they had some time with the Indiana family by themselves. It’s all good!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>This girl is walking a fake chicken!</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Tony and Livy</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Getting cows ready for judging</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also had an afternoon of family bowling. Crawfordsville has a great bowling alley and we were the only ones in it when we started at 2 in the afternoon. I think it was the first time I have bowled in 4-5 years with exception of Wii bowling!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Savannah, Bailey, Livy</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Patty</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Savannah</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Bailey</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Livy</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty and I saw Chrisse Hyde and The Pretenders in Indianapolis too! That was fun! I had always thought that Chrisse was a real tall big woman. Well I was wrong, she is a very small woman. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>Before The Pretenders concert we had dinner at this great German restaurant across the street from the concert venue</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Inside the restaurant</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>The Murat Temple and Theater</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>We had some time to kill after dinner and before the concert. We didn't ride this but it was going around the downtown circle area of Indianapolis</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Entrance to the Murat theater</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK, well that about wraps it up for our time with family in Indiana. Our next stop is on the other side of the state near New Castle and Centerville to see friends from South Texas where we stay for the winter. Then we are off to New Jersey.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-70254047303463788912018-07-20T07:35:00.003-05:002018-07-20T07:35:31.850-05:00Family Time and a trip to Cedar Point, Sandusky Ohio<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>June 19 - 30, 2018: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So we spent our time here the first week in Crawfordsville Indiana hanging with my son Tony’s family. Then we picked up our site and moved it to Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky Ohio. We took the youngest grandkid, Livy, with us. Actually, we took the RV and she took us to the Amusement Park!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK, before we leave for our week at Cedar Point I needed to fix the hot water heater. Over the last few weeks the pressure and amount of actual hot water has been decreasing. Actually the hot water stays warm for a very long time there just isn't any volume to speak of.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It seemed to me to a very weird problem that only the hot water had a pressure problem. I looked up the problem on the internet and found, to my surprise, that this brand of hot water heater has a problem that causes this. We have an Atwood water heater that does not have an anode rod. It is a 10 gallon water heater. The issue the internet talks about is with a check valve that sticks after a while. The check valve is in the outlet supply line to the RV. Its purpose is to not let winterizing chemicals get into the tank. I was somewhat perplexed by this as we have outside of the tank valves that are supposed to handle this. So I need to take a look at the water heater to see just what is what.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To access the water heater I have to remove most of the contents of the basement and then tale down the plywood wall that separated the RV underfloor area from the basement. After gaining access to the heater I took some pictures of what the back of it looked like. What I noticed was that the back of the heater didn't look like what was described on the internet. Our tank has a weird outlet valve that has three connections on it. One to the tank, one to the RV and one back to the cold water inlet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So now I look up on the internet the exact model of our water heater. Out model has a 10 gallon tank but functions as an 18 gallon system. Ok, what?! Atwood operates with a tank temperature hotter than the normal 120 degrees. It keeps the water at 160 degrees and then mixes the outlet with cold water with a mixing valve to achieve 120 degrees. This mixing of cold and hot water allows for more hot water. And guess what, this valve sticks and causes the same sort of problem as the normal check valve but at a much higher cost!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I removed the mixing valve and found a lot of white calcium in the inlet. I also found loads of this calcium in the tank line leading to the valve. I cleaned up the valve with CLR and used a brush on the inlet valve to remove as much calcium as possible. I replaced the valve with minimal effect. The pressure did increase but not a lot. So now I need a new mixing valve.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The cheapest I could find the valve was for $115 online. Of course, Atwood wanted $160 for it! I did see a video online on how to take the valve apart and clean it. The procedure required tools I didn't have and I didn't have the time right then to mess with it so I just ordered a new one. The valve came in a day later! After putting the new valve in we again had hot water pressure just like new! The old valve lasted 6 years of full time use so it did its job for an RV. I really can't complain about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Livy asked us back in January if she could go somewhere with us using the RV. We spent some time trying to decide the best way for this to happen. We didn’t want it to be too long of a trip, maybe just a week at the longest. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We looked into flying her to us somewhere in the country and then taking her back home in Indiana. That didn’t work because she is under 15 years old so she can’t fly alone. Actually she can but they charge an arm and a leg to do that. Also, the airlines will only fly her, with extra fees, on non-stops. So from the Indianapolis airport that didn’t leave many options.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since flying was not going to work we decided to pick her up in Crawfordsville and go somewhere round trip. But just where should we go? We decided on the amusement park Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio. Cedar Point is around 275 miles away making it a great destination. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our plan was to travel about 175 miles the first day of about 3 hours and stay the night. Then we just have about 100 miles or about 2 hours on the second travel day to the Park. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So from January to March we (Patty mostly) planned the trip. Since the trip would be very close to the 4th of July holiday we decided to get reservations at a campground near the park. We also purchased tickets for 2 days at the park and one day at a close by animal/water Park. The trip would be a week-long running from Sunday the 24th and would return on Sunday the 1st of July. We would take 4 travel days coming and going and then would have 4 days in the Sandusky area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Monday we headed further northeast to Camp Sandusky in Sandusky OH. We arrived about 2pm and quickly set up our site. Maybe we will get a swim in before dinner! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our first night we had dinner at the Quaker Steak Lube and Oil. By the time we set up camp and had a swim we were ready for dinner and didn’t feel like cooking. We had gone one of these a couple years ago and liked it. This time, not so much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It seems Livy was having second thoughts about the roller coasters the night before we went to the park. This was going to be her first time she would be tall enough to ride the big stuff. Livy is a real daredevil and is not usually afraid of anything. However, she got to see pictures of the coasters at Cedar Point we had in planning the trip. She saw that they went upside down and she wasn’t sure she could do those. Livy was afraid to tell us she was apprehensive so she texted her mom and had her text me to let me know. Livy and I then had a talk about it and I reassured her that she was only riding the rides she wanted to ride. If she didn’t want to ride something then she wasn’t riding it, it was her choice. She was afraid that she was going to hurt my feelings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It wasn’t something that I like much but not terrible. I can’t handle rides that just spin you around, makes me sick. This ride did a little of that but wasn’t too bad so I rode it with her. After the ride it was time for the Dramamine! It was just enough spinning around to make me queasy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After that first ride we walked around a bit so Grandpa could feel better! So now it was time for a coaster! Livy and Patty picked a fairly large wooden one that didn’t go upside down. Both Patty and I rode this with Livy. It has been about 5 years since either of us had been on a real roller coaster, which was Disney. I had a great time with the adrenalin rush but my body didn’t like the shaking we received. Of course, Livy who is 11, loved it! It wasn’t long before Patty lost her lunch after that ride! I managed just OK but felt beat up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our last day with Livy, Saturday the 30th of July, we arrived back in Crawfordsville about 2pm. The first thing we noticed is that the stuff we left behind at our rented site was not at our site! We left some stuff behind as we had rented the site for 30 days and we didn’t feel we needed to take everything with us. We left our ground mat mostly because it was very wet and we didn’t need it for just the few days we would be away. We also left our traveling plant, Rosalita and a few other miscellaneous items. Were they stolen or what?!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While setting up our site Patty went to the office to see what they knew about our belongings. Shortly thereafter, a worker from the KOA brought back our stuff and set it up just like we left it. It seems that the owner was in a bind for space and rented our site to someone else for a night or 2 while we were gone. It really didn't bother me for them to make as much money as they can as long as it doesn’t interfere with what I paid for. Since we came back a day early it was a big risk for the owner to have rented it out as we could have come back at any time! </span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-45086086151225642362018-07-06T10:00:00.002-05:002018-07-06T10:00:55.514-05:00Travel to Crawfordsville Indiana from Sarasota Florida<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>June 10 - 18, 2018: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We said our goodbyes to our new house and headed north for the summer. The trip to Crawfordsville IN is about 1100 miles and it will take us 9 days. That is 5 days of actual moving of around 200 miles each day and 4 days of exploring as we go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The restaurant was called Jim Shaw's. I had the catfish and it was really good! Patty had the fish fry of Haddock and she said that was good too. The most surprising thing here was the hush puppies, they were the best we have ever had! Patty is not a fan but she liked them too. So this turned out to be a nice dinner out having fried fish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Travel Day 3 took us to the Holiday Travel Park in Rossville Georgia at a little over 200 miles. Actually this park is just 2 blocks from the Tennessee border and, in fact the name of the RV Park is the Holiday Travel Park Chattanooga TN. We didn’t know it when we picked this RV Park but we had stayed here before a few years ago. We had already done most of our exploring here then. This area is known for Lookout Mountain and Civil War sites. We just chilled here and took on some shopping at the local Walmart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Day 4 of our travels took us to the Singing Hills Campground in Kentucky at about 235 miles. This area is known for Mammoth Cave National Park. We have been by this area many times in the past 6 years but it just never worked out for us to visit. This was the time for us to visit the Cave! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The tight places turned out to be fine for me. Just one place called Fat Man's Revenge just about freaked me out. It wasn’t that the walls were just a couple inches away from my head on all sides, it was that we stopped in the middle because a little kid of about 10 had to poop! But still, did we need to stop in one of the tightest spots! Just about the time I was starting to panic we started to move again, whew!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The tour and cave were actually very cool, both literally and attraction wise. I hadn’t been in the cave for over 30 years so I really didn’t remember much about it. And this was Patty’s first time in the cave. We both really liked it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The tour was quite a bit of walking at about 4 miles and the last half mile was basically straight up out of the cave! You couldn’t beat the nice inside temperature of just 57 when the outside was a little over 90 either! We would definitely recommend this cave to anybody as a great destination.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our last day, day 5 of travel was our longest at about 260 miles. Usually, I stop and refuel along the way at this distance but we made the trip with about 10 miles of fuel to go, plenty of reserve! I probably would not have pushed the fuel that hard if we were stopping in unfamiliar surroundings but we were stopping in my childhood hometown of Crawfordsville Indiana. Since Indiana is on Eastern Standard Time and Kentucky is Central time we got an extra hour for this long trip. With the extra hour we arrived around 3 pm and were set up by 4 pm and having dinner with the grandkids by 5pm.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-2195320225566474832018-06-13T09:51:00.001-05:002018-06-13T09:51:17.925-05:00Purchased House, MRI Results, Headed North for summer<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>May 30 – June 10, 2018: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">WOW, what a month! It’s hard to believe we have just been here in Florida for just a month. When we arrived I was worried about my health and seeing a doctor, starting the search for a house, and not knowing the area. Now we have purchased a house and I got a perfect bill of health. We also now know the area pretty well after looking at around 20 houses and then going to furniture stores. I also got a little RV maintenance done in between the almost 2 weeks of continuous rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last post took us up to me having an MRI the next day, Wednesday, the 30th of May. I was very worried about getting this done as I am very claustrophobic! I called the doctor who prescribed the MRI and got a couple of Xanax to take before getting into the MRI. These actually helped some! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After arriving all Xanaxed up, they have me lay down on a slide table with my head between two soft head restraints. Then as if that is not enough, they placed wedges between my head and the soft restraints on each side to make my head completely immobile. But wait, there’s more!! They place what looks like a hockey mask just an inch or so above my face! So now my head is locked in place and I am looking out through a couple of little holes and I am not even in the damn machine yet! They give me a squeeze ball that I thought at first was for me relieve stress but it was for telling them I want out! The technician asked if I was ready, I said YES and up and back I went. I kept my eyes closed the entire time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They only had to take me out 2 times in the 30 or so minutes I was there. The first time was after the scan was complete without contrast. Since the scan was complete for this segment I could raise my head and turn it side to side after they pulled me out. They told me that the next scan with contrast would be shorter at just about 10 minutes. So, up and back into the machine I went. This time I wanted out after just about 5 minutes! I was in sort of a panic as I couldn’t move my head. It didn’t help for them to keep saying, don’t move your head and reminding me that I was stuck in a tube and couldn't move! Once out of the tube they said that I couldn’t move my head as the whole scan would need to be done again. Shit! OK send me back in! I made it!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For me, 3 things helped; the Xanax, the feeling like I wasn’t completely in the tube, and the loud noises from the machine. The loud noises took my attention away from my immobilized location. The MRI room is very cold and there is a lot of air movement in the room too. I think that the combination of cold and the air movement that I could feel on my legs gave me the feeling like half of me wasn’t in the tube. I really don’t know if I was completely in or not as I wasn’t going to open my eyes to find out! I was told I would be completely in the tube so thinking I wasn’t was just fine with me!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After 9 days from the MRI scan the doctor’s office called and said that the MRI results were in and that the doctor would review the results with me. We made an appointment for 2 hours later that day. OK, now I am going through the possibilities so I won’t be caught off guard when I hear the results. So I dig the biggest hole I can think of (couple days to live with radiation and chemo) and place myself in it mentally so I can react and climb out. That’s what I do when faced with the unknown.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now we are in the doctor’s office waiting for the doctor to appear. This is the worst part, waiting for the doctor! So the doctor comes in all smiles and happy, so far so good. After she reads the results she says they found nothing wrong! Now I just want to get out there, live my life, and never come back and not go through that again. WHEW!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back 6 years ago when we sold our last house and moved into our RV I thought we would never own a house again. Well, I was wrong, again! We closed on our North Port Florida house on the last day of May. For me I think the past 6 years paying rent (Campgrounds) and living in the ultimate homeowners associations (HOAs) at Campgrounds, made me want my own house again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our original plan from 6 years ago when we went full time RVing was to do it a minimum of 5 years. We had many options after the 5 years and one of them was purchasing another house somewhere, we didn’t know where at the time. We gave thought to parking the RV in an RV resort in Texas or Florida but after 5 years of wintering a few months a winter in a Texas RV resort we decided that living that way wasn’t for us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If we decided to continue full time traveling in an RV we would need to purchase another RV and truck soon. For us it just didn’t make sense to purchase another depreciating asset. Lastly, Patty needs more permanence with her medical care. And with my recent health scare I am good with settling down a little more too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The past couple of weeks we spent going from furniture store to furniture store getting furniture. After living in an RV we only have 2 chairs and a mattress that we can put in the house. So, we basically need everything! We knew this going in and had anticipated this 6 years ago. We really liked the idea of starting over and not using stuff we had accumulated from our past. This is a brand new start for us as was full time RVing was 6 years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some weird things we found in the house with the ceiling fans, lighting and remote controls. The house has a fan in each of the rooms with exception of the bathrooms. One fan in the entranceway had a wall switch that was bypassed so it wasn’t functional. The fan it 3 feet overhead so to turn it on you need a ladder. I pulled of the wall switch plate and reconnected the switch so we could turn the fan off and on from the floor. Why would someone do that?! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then in the kitchen the ceiling fan has lights and nothing turns them on. This fan is identical to the one in the master bedroom and it has a remote. So I figure the kitchen fan also uses a remote to operate. The problem is that there is no remote left behind by the previous owners. I tried to use the remote from the bedroom but to no avail. I pulled off the wall switch plate for this fan and it looked to be wired correctly. I shorted the switch to make sure the switch was good and found it had a slight spark. I figure that this means that the switch is probably powering a remote in the fan. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before I buy a new remote though I need to know absolutely that there is a remote in the fan and I need to know the code. This means I need to find where they put the remote in the fan. Lucky for me it was where I first looked at the top near the ceiling. To make sure it worked I got the code from it and programmed the remote we have for the bedroom with it. Yup, it works! Now we just need to get a new remote control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then there is the dining room ceiling fan without lights. Again, this is so weird, the dining room doesn’t have any lights in it at all! The fan seems to be from the original build of the house in 2002 as it is identical to many of the others in the house. Why would you build a house with no lights in the dining room? Even weirder, why would the previous owner live that way?! That is a fix for when we come back in the fall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lastly, the garage door keypad remote doesn’t work. The door motor operator looks to be very new and the keypad is older so I figure it just needs to be programmed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First I took the cover off of the keypad to make sure the battery was good. The keypad had no battery and hasn’t for some time. The keypad uses a 9-volt battery and the negative connection has broken off! So it appears that the previous owners just didn’t fix it or never used it. And that could be the case that they never used it because I am not sure how often we would ever use either. We were going to use it as an easy way for someone to enter the house if needed while we are gone. Oh well, another fix for later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We did a couple more things before we left. We replaced the keyset on the front door and we replaced the kitchen sink fixture. We decided that a new keyset was in order so we were the only ones now with keys to the house. The kitchen sink fixture was old and a little corroded. This was an easy install and since Home Depot had a nice one on clearance I just went ahead and replaced it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On another note, Patty’s son Chas has decided he wants to relocate to Florida with us for a while. He currently is living in New Jersey. We had been encouraging him to relocate so he can start a new career path and get his finances in order. New Jersey is a very expensive place for kids to start out in. He has done pretty well there but he needs a change that he is unable to do in NJ and staying with us for a while should make a difference. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It looks like he will move down to our house at the beginning of August. I was hoping he would come sooner so the house would be occupied sooner but August is better than late October when we return. He is also going to take care of the pool and lawn so we can then cancel the paid services.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We left Alabama and are now going to make our last big turn south. We are about 570 miles away from our destination so we will make 2 more stops before getting to Sarasota Florida. We are going to stop next near Tallahassee, 230 miles further and then in Ocala another 210 miles away. That will leave us with about 160 miles to our month-long stop in Sarasota Florida.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Loads of yellow flowers along the way on I 10 into Florida</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our first stop is at the Beaver Lake RV Park just outside Tallahassee Florida. This was just a one night stop and this place was perfect for a one nighter. The park was behind a Marathon service station. I had to pull into the service station and pay inside before going to the park that was just to the right and behind it. The park was just a grass field but it had full 50 amp hook-ups for just $20 a night with Passport. The place is literally just a few hundred feet off of I-10 so it really is a quick on and off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only memorable thing for us here was that we forgot our 2 plants the next morning after leaving. Putting the plants into the RV is usually one of the last things I do. I try to do this chore just before hooking up the truck to the RV. Sometimes I forget and I do it as the last thing before we leave. The chore of lifting the heavy plants has become a larger chore since having this weird headache issue. I really don’t want to strain too much because it makes my head hurt. So I get down and bend my knees the way I should anyway and lift with my legs. Anyway, I forgot the plants this time. It was the first time ever we have forgotten the plants and left without them. The only way I remembered was that the RV door handrail was still out when I looked out the rearview mirrors just after we got onto the highway. That made me remember the plants. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The exits were sort of far apart here at about 10 miles so we had to make 20 mile U-Turn to get the plants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ocala will be a 2 night stop for us. Patty had originally picked a park on the north side of Ocala for our stay here. However, as we were driving she reviewed our blog post from 2 years ago when we were here last. She saw that we really liked the place where we stayed then. We stayed at the Ocala Sun Resort on the south side of Ocala. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The day we were here, the 8th was the worst that my head issue got with exception to the original headache I had back on the 30th of May. It had been 8 days since I went to the ER with my head hurting. Now I have something affecting the rear of my legs. It is the weirdest thing; it is hard for me to straighten my legs out as I walk. It feels like the back of my legs are tight and when I straighten them out as I walk it hurts so I have to walk funny. This weird walking is very strenuous and makes my head hurt. None of this was happening before I had the massive headache. Anyway, I couldn’t even walk the few hundred feet to the laundry in the park! The people who know me and the amount of walking I do, they know this is just not right! So we got the clothes washed, using the truck to go back and forth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We arrive at our site in Sarasota around 1pm at the Windward Isles RV Park just off of I 75 on Clark Road. We are staying on site A which is just a few sites from where we stayed 2 years ago. This park is very close to everything here. Our friends Connie and Tony are just 3 miles to the west. One of the best beaches, Siesta Key, is just about 4 miles west. Also, just about anything you would want is also right on Clark Road. The price is only $500 for the month too and includes electric! So this is a perfect RV Park for us here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another reason for staying at this park is that it is centered in the area where we want to house hunt. We want to look for a house as far north as Bradenton and as far south as Punta Gorda. This is 60 mile stretch along I 75 on the west coast of Florida. For us, this area is just far enough south to stay warm in the winter and still be close to major airports and highways. It also helps that we have friends here too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On our first full day here, Thursday the 10th, I have my appointment with a doctor concerning my headache ER visit the week before in Texas. At the appointment, I gave the doctor a rundown of my concerns as well as the paper summary of the CT scan done in Texas. She performed a neurological exam that included me walking around. The Doctor didn’t see anything wrong with me. Basically, all of my symptoms had started to dissipate the day after my worst day in Ocala. By the time of this appointment, 2 days later, I didn’t have any symptoms except for a mild headache. I was still taking Ibuprofen, so I am thinking the symptoms are just being masked by the pain med.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The doctor is quite perplexed and leaves to consult with a neurologist. After the consult she says that, yes I should have the MRI but that they don’t think it is anything I need ASAP. However, they stressed that if anything changes I should go straight to an ER. I was told that they would call me to set up the MRI and I was lead to believe it would be next week sometime.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m going to jump a bit ahead in time in this post to cover my health issue up to today the 29th of May. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As of today, the 29th of May, I have not had any symptoms or issues for several days now. I am no longer taking any medications and feel fine. I have even started back on my exercise routine but at a greatly reduced level. So I am walking the same distance but no running and am doing the same resistance routine but at less resistance. I just don’t know what to think right now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The MRI is scheduled for tomorrow the 30th at 12:30pm. My biggest concern is getting into the tight tube as I am very claustrophobic. I asked the MRI lab how much of me would need to go into the machine thinking that it may just be my head. Ha, ha, no, all of me needs to be in the machine. To make matters worse, the woman on the phone at the MRI lab said that there is no need to worry; it is just like being in a “Twinkie”!!!! This woman is definitely NOT claustrophobic! Ok, so I do have a little concern about my head, but, you know, it is what it is, I’ll deal with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other than the MRI issue we have had another issue with the truck after getting here. The truck bucks and hesitates when accelerating sometimes, but not all of the time. So I took it into Sarasota Ford on Wednesday the 23rd to have it looked at. We rented a car so we could still be able to run around while it is in the shop. We have never had this truck in the shop shorter than a couple of days unless it is just an oil change.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After a week we just found out that the truck will be ready this coming Friday, June 1, That will have been 9 days since I took it in. Some of the problem was that it was a holiday weekend but still! So we have a fuel sensor that is bad causing the bucking issue. We also have a small oil leak that causes a pretty bad stink inside the truck and a backup light out. Oh the fun of having a big old (going on 11 years) diesel truck. This will be it's last year for us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since being here in Sarasota we have spent some quality time with our friends Connie and Tony. They live just about 3 miles from where we are in Windward Isles. So in between house hunting, truck repairs, and doctor visits we have had dinner a couple of times at their house and have gone out a couple of times. We also got together with the Suncoast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Naturists for dinner at a local restaurant. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Look real close and you can see the swarm of Lovebugs!<br /> This is the most I have ever seen!</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now for house hunting! We had a terrible start on Friday the 11th. On Friday the houses we looked at were just not anything we would even consider. One was in a flood zone and the other was in a great location but I would need to basically bulldoze it down and start over. Furthermore, the prices were way too high to even think about either one. They were in our budget but not after what we would need to spend on them. We were somewhat depressed after that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now that we looked at houses on Friday our realtor was not available until next Wednesday to look at other houses! We didn't let that stop us as we were on mission, we were going to find a house damn it! Patty started looking on the internet and I made a checklist of things that were important to us so we could evaluate them before we even looked at them. The checklist includes things like the distance to grocery stores, highways, as well as how many rooms had carpet that we would want to replace and or do work in. Anyone in a flood zone was automatically left off the list.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">With our list we went on drive-bys Sunday and Monday and looked at about 20 houses. Then on Tuesday we again checked off houses that didn't make the grade for us. By the time Wednesday rolled around we had a small list of properties we wanted to visit with our realtor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Wednesday we looked at 4 houses, 2 that were of interest, and we made an offer which has now been accepted on the last house. At this time we close on the property on the 30th of May - tomorrow! It will have been exactly 3 weeks since we started looking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the Memorial Day weekend we have been doing furniture shopping. Since we have been living in an RV for the past 6 years we don't have anything. Well, we do have something, we have 2 La-Z-Boy chairs we bought for the RV a couple years ago. We also have a very nice mattress we are going to keep too. So far we have purchased the bedroom set, the living room set, the dining room set, the washer and dryer, and 6 bar stools. Still need all of the little stuff but that can wait until we are back here at the end of October.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The 2 La-Z-Boy chairs will leave a space in the RV without chairs. We want to fill that space with replacement chairs before we sell it in the fall. So Patty found a pair of very nice chairs for sale in the local paper. We went to look at them and really liked them so we bought them. They were for sale by the nicest older woman who is downsizing after her husband died. They are the same color as the love seat in the RV and were just $100 for the pair! Actually, we are planning to put these chairs in the RV and leave the La-Z-Boys here when we leave in a couple weeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While furniture shopping we also "battled" Alberto. I say battled in quotes because it really was not much of a storm here anyway. The storm was a lot of rain and a little wind. Again the big thing here for was the longevity of the rain. It has been raining here for over a week now. So far this has not been the usual Florida rain we are used to where it only rains a bit in the afternoon. This has been on and off heavy rain with light showers and with bits of sun just to throw you off and forget sunglasses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Right now our plan is to leave here, Florida, on the 10th and travel to Indiana for a month. Then we will travel to New Jersey for 2 months. In October we will head to Ohio for a wedding and then back to Florida. </span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-86993076337184562252018-05-20T10:01:00.001-05:002018-05-20T10:02:12.242-05:00Travel to Mobile Alabama (with headache)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>May 03 - 07, 2018: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After deciding to keep on truckin' toward Florida we went through Louisiana, Mississippi, and then Mobile Alabama. Our first stop for just a night was in Delhi Louisiana and then we sailed through Mississippi with Mobile Alabama being our next 2 night stay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our one night stay was at the Delhi RV Park in Delhi LA just a few feet off Interstate 20. These are the places we like for overnighting, cheap, simple, and easy in and out. The Delhi RV Park fit that bill perfectly. We didn’t even need to go into the office to find a site or fill anything out. We call a number and get a guy who says to pick any site and then put $20 in an envelope into a deposit slot on the unoccupied office. Oh yeah, all of the sites are 50 amp pull throughs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">May 4th we took off for our 250 mile trip to Mobile Alabama. This a longer trip than we usually do but it fits into our schedule for arriving at our final destination in Florida on the 9th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The trip to Mobile was mostly split between I 20 and then southeast on route 45 to Mobile AL. Interstate 20 was pretty good but the southeast part of the trip out of Meridian Mississippi was pretty awful! The first 20 miles was on and off construction and when not in construction the road was even worse. It was very difficult to keep up to highway speeds! We were both glad to finally arrive in Mobile after 5 hours of driving.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our site in Mobile was at one of those southern RV/Mobile home parks with mostly full-time renters. We just never know what we will run into at one of these places. Patty found the City RV Park on the Passport America site. The price for a night should be half of their daily rate of $35. However, when on-site manager came the next evening to get the site fee it was $70 for the 2 nights. We asked and she said that was the Passport rate. Basically she gave us just a 5% reduction that took off the taxes. I think the woman pockets the extra money. She came with her small child and acted scatterbrained so I am pretty sure if we pushed it she would have feigned being so sorry for not being good at math or some such thing. We let it go anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty was told on the phone that we could have any of 3 different sites when we arrived, just pick one. Picking a site in a park like this is very rough. First, we don’t know the layout of the park. Secondly, we don’t know how to navigate the park either. The sites we were to pick out were all in a row as we entered the Park. However, the sites were alternating pull throughs that we didn’t pick up on right away. So we pulled into the first site backwards. After we were in the site we realized that we should have gone around a very sharp curve in the Park and then pulled into this site. Fortunately we figured this out as the utilities were backwards. Originally we thought that all of the utilities were just backwards, nope, it was us who were backwards. It was very easy to just back up and then pull forward into the correct site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So we have one full day to explore Mobile Alabama! We picked going into downtown and having lunch and then visiting the Carnival Museum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We got lucky as we arrived early to lunch and got one of the last tables that weren’t reserved. Today was graduation day for the University of South Alabama (USA) which is located close by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After a nice lunch we walked a few blocks to the Carnival Museum. We learned quite a lot here and the price was nice at just $10 each. First thing we learned is that Carnival in the US originated here in Mobile before moving to its more famous cousin New Orleans after the Civil War. Originally Mobile was much more prosperous than that of New Orleans or any other port city for that matter. Things changed after the Civil war though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway Mobile has been hosting its own Carnival continuously since 1702 which was several years before New Orleans was even a city! The museum has many of the past king and queen costumes that have been worn over the years. These costumes are very ornate and very expensive. In fact, to be a queen or a king you need to be from a pretty wealthy family. Our visit to the museum gave us a very good education on this traditional festival. We are glad we had the chance to visit the museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for my headaches, I am still having some issues. I have a low grade headache most of the time and I get dizzy at weird times. The dizzy part comes at some usual times like when I get up quick but also when I walk. It also seems like my upper legs are involved. It is hard to walk because it hurts to get my legs straight when I am walking. Trying to get my legs straight makes my head hurt, weird. So far this stuff is all mild and not enough to keep me down so I just muddle along for now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Getting close to Florida now! Our next stop will be a one nighter in Tallahassee Florida and then off to our next 2 nighter in Ocala Florida.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-90505612065191659382018-05-12T06:34:00.000-05:002018-05-12T06:34:07.741-05:00Tyler Texas and Mark’s Headache <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>April 30 – May 03, 2018:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My (Mark) first medical issue ever happened on Monday night April 30th. It was a travel day for us traveling from Monahan’s to Ranger Texas; a 265 mile trip. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is a really long trip for us! We stayed at the Horseshoe RV Park just off of Interstate 20.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We decided to have a decadent over the top dinner of hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls. We don’t eat this way very often but we were in the grocery store and just decided that we would have this some time while we were traveling. It’s pretty quick to make. After eating 3 of these crescent dogs I started to read an article on my phone when I noticed I was getting a headache around 7 pm. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Around 7:30 pm I was laying on the bed waiting for the 3 ibuprofen I took to kick in. I also had a heating pad on the left side of my head. This was by far the worst headache I had ever had.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By 9pm we went to bed and the headache was still there. I was now alternating ice and the heating pad which gave very little real relief. Around 11 pm I asked Patty to look up a local hospital ER that I could go to. Going to an ER is just not something I would do for myself and had never done before but something was really wrong.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We went to the Eastland Texas Memorial Hospital about 9 miles away. This is a tiny hospital and it was sort of hard to find even with our GPS. It really isn’t some place I would go on purpose but it was the closest place as we were really in the middle of nowhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I got right in at around midnight and after a few questions and some prodding and poking I got a CT scan. I was sort of amazed they had one of these machines in this tiny hospital. Now we had to wait for the results. I also had a Blood Pressure at 198/90 which is real high for me. I have never had pressure that high and my pressure is normally not even close to hypertensive. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They don’t have a radiologist at the hospital, they use a service. The service gets the scan via the internet and reviews it somewhere else in the country and then send in a report via the internet. We were told that it would take 5 – 20 minutes to get the results.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At 12:30 am the ER doctor said that he would review the CT scan for anything big and if the review had not come in pretty soon he would give me shot to relieve the pain and something for nausea which I didn’t really have.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The ER doctor came in around 1 am and said he didn’t see anything and gave me the shot and the anti-nausea med. By 1:30 am the pain had mostly gone away. I still had a little but felt good enough to go back to our RV home. However, my blood pressure was still at 150/85!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tuesday the 1st of May was also a travel day to Tyler Texas. I still had a slight headache when I got up and a weird chest pain. It hurt in my center upper chest when I when down the steps in the RV. Basically it was just annoying, no real heavy pain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were doing our usual internet news reading before getting ready to leave and travel to Tyler TX when my phone rang with the Eastland Hospital. The woman on the phone asked if I was still having a headache to which I said I was having a light one this morning. She said that they just got the radiologist report from my CT scan last night and it showed a slight shadow in an area of my brain. She said that if I was still having headaches I should get an MRI. Well SHIT! We thought they had the report from the radiologist but we were wrong about that!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I asked if I could get the report and they that I could I just needed to sign for it. So I went in to get to get it before we left the area. I wanted it because when and if I get the MRI I wanted this report so it would move things along quicker when I went in for it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK, so now I have the report and I read it in the truck in the parking lot of the hospital. Not so sure it is a good thing giving me a medical report because I will study the crap out of it whether it is about me or Patty. I was a little scared after I read the report! It said that I had an area of unusual density about ½ inch by ¼ inch in the scan. It went on about the location which I am still not sure about. Anyway, the scary part was what the radiologist suggested it could be. It could be a meningioma or other mass, a localized hemorrhage is possible, Aneurysm is possible. The other interesting thing was that the report didn’t get to the hospital until 8:59 am!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I looked all of this up on the internet back at the RV and yeah, it could be life threatening and, maybe not! The meningioma is usually a non-malignant tumor. These things are somewhat common and usually grow real slow and many people don’t know they have them until something else is being looked for. I don’t like this but that is not real scary. The hemorrhage and the possibility of an aneurysm is pretty scary since it made me feel like I had time bomb in my head! I didn’t discuss with Patty what we should do so we went on to Tyler Texas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Along the way I could really feel the pain in my chest when I went over bumps in the road. It seems to affect my headache too. I also developed a new pain; it was in my upper legs. When I walk or straighten out my legs it hurts like hell. I can also feel it in my head! FYI, the chest pain has gone away but the leg pain has increased to the point it is hard to walk around much at anything that with a slow gait.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We will be here in Tyler TX for 2 nights. We are now basically closer to our site in Elsa Texas than to where we are going in Sarasota Florida by a couple days. I discussed with Patty the possibility of going back to our site in Elsa and getting the MRI there or just continue to Sarasota Florida and do it there. We decided to wait and do it in Sarasota. We are not happy with the medical care in south Texas for one and we know we want to be in Florida on a more permanent basis. Yes it is a risk but one we both decided to take. I am just going to take it real easy until I can get the results of an MRI. That means no more exercising! That is a real killer for me but I have gone through this before, however not for a long time. I have a few time pushed myself and got hurt and then I had to lay off exercising for many weeks. So this is similar but much more at risk. I want to get fixed so I can return to normal exercising. Let’s hope anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, for Tyler Texas we decided to take it easy and just do as much as where I felt comfortable doing. We took a short tour of the rose gardens at the Rose Garden Center and we took a truck tour of the Azalea historic area. These were easy and quite nice to see. We also had lunch in downtown Tyler.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>I learned that Tyler TX was very important to the Confederates during the Civil War because of their factories for munitions and arms. Most of the south did not have much in the way of manufacturing but Tyler TX did.</b><br /><b>This monument in the center of town is </b><b>dedicated</b><b> to this fact.</b></span></i></td></tr>
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-76353432903251142912018-05-09T06:02:00.000-05:002018-05-09T06:02:15.151-05:00Monahan’s Sandhill’s State Park TX – Propane Hose Damage<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>April 27 - 30, 2018: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our next stop after leaving Arizona is 210 miles to El Paso for just one night and then another 250 miles to the Monahan’s Sandhill’s State Park all in Texas. We just cruised right through New Mexico from AZ to TX.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We got just a bit complacent on our travel to El Paso. We knew that we would need to get fuel because we didn’t start with a completely full tank. Diesel was very expensive in New Mexico but I was afraid I wouldn’t have enough to get to Texas. I also didn’t want to stop around El Paso for fuel because it is very busy almost all of the time. With about 30 miles of fuel left in the tank, we stopped at the last exit in New Mexico and got fuel for $3.49 a gallon! Since we were just 40 miles from the RV Park I just purchased $20 or about 6 gallons of fuel. Those 6 gallons is only good for about 50 miles pulling the RV.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Purchasing a small amount of fuel was the second mistake we made. The first mistake was not calling ahead to the RV Park to make sure they had room for us. After all it is a Friday night and we are near a large city. Generally there isn’t a problem with space if we are not near a big city and not in a tourist destination or State and National Parks. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were also coming through El Paso in rush hour. I don’t know why but El Paso seems to be traffic congested all of the time but during rush hour, worse! To make matters worse for fuel consumption, the RV Park is near Fort Bliss so we have to take the Transmountain Highway (I 375) to get there. Route 375 has multiple grades with one grade of 8% and a total climb of 2500 feet! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By the time we get to the RV Park we are nearly out of fuel again! And just to add to the tension, the RV Park is on the other side of the 4 lane highway. Soooo, I am supposed to make a U-Turn crossing 3 lanes of trafic at an official U-Turn place during rush hour! I managed to make the U-Turn without too much trouble and we arrived at the RV Park to find that they didn’t have room for us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is another RV Park just up the road and on the other side requiring another U-Turn. Patty called there and they also do not have room for us. So here we are with about 10 miles of fuel left, heading the wrong way on the highway, and no place to park for the night. Yeah I was not a happy camper and I took it out on Patty. I am very sorry for that!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first order of business is to get fuel before we do anything. The best way to do this is to drop the RV someplace, get the fuel, and then hook back up. We found a less than desirable place in an industrial area to drop the RV. The area is basically a big truck entrance road to several warehouses. The only place to put the RV out of the way required us dropping it on the edge of the road in very uneven sand, not great. As we were dropping the RV a guy pulled up in his pickup and said that we really shouldn’t put the RV there because the big trucks use the edge of the road to turn into the nearby access road. I told the guy we would be right back after we fueled up. He said that wouldn’t be a problem but don’t take too long. Boy did I need any more pressure or what! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While getting the fuel I was planning our escape from the sand. The road is narrow and it will require us to back up a ways and make a K turn to get back to the highway but still still going the wrong way. I would again need to make one of those U turns across 3 lanes of traffic!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We got back to the RV and that there had been no issues with us being in the way of any trucks. We hooked and made the backup K turn and were able to make another U turn to head the right direct on 375. Whew!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty made a few calls while I was pumping the fuel and got us a space for the night about 16 miles away at the Roadrunner RV Park on Interstate 10. By the time we got to the Roadrunner RV Park we were only delayed about an hour! It really felt like 3 hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes is feels like when it rains it pours. As I was returning to the RV after getting settled up with the RV Park office I noticed our RV smelled like propane! I am thinking that we probably had run out of propane and it smells like that when we are running on fumes. I opened up the propane compartment door and I could hear the gas running and one of the tanks was very cold. That was a little strange that I could hear the gas running that loud but I just thought that it had to do with running out of gas. So I just turned off the gas and we moved to our site and set up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next morning before we left the park I was going to connect the BBQ 20lb tank to the RV so we could keep the fridge running while we traveling. We have always ran the fridge when traveling, some people don’t. The first thing I found out was that only one tank was empty and the second one was half full. So we were not out of fuel. Then why did I smell gas and why can I hear it running? I messed around with the tanks thinking it may have something to do with the regulator and having one tank empty. What I eventually deduced was that we have a large gas leak somewhere. The leak would however need to wait until our next stop. We were just going to travel without the fridge running. It’s really no big deal to have it off for 3-4 hours. The fridge is closed and everything is already cold so the temperature only goes up a couple degrees while we are traveling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On next stop was 4 hours away (253 miles) at the Monahan’s Sandhills State Park. This Texas state park is just off of Interstate 20. The park is just like being at the beach without the water. They have huge sand dunes that kids like to sled down. It is also pretty cheap to stay there too at $24 a night for 50 amp w/o sewer. For just a couple of nights that is fine for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We got set up and now I wanted to find out where the damn propane leak is. I know it wasn’t leaking before we left Arizona traveling to El Paso. On our way from Arizona we have very high winds with quite a few tumble weeds crossing in front of the RV. I missed most of them but did hit one of them. So I am sort of thinking that maybe the tumble weed damaged one of the exposed propane pipes under the RV. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I enlisted Patty's help in finding the leak. I laid under the RV near the first propane pipe at the front of the RV that feeds the generator. When I was in position she opened the propane tank valve so I could hear the propane if there was a leak. Nope, not there, but I could hear gas running further down the RV. It sounded like it was coming from the area of the fridge slide. I found the flexible propane hose that comes from the pipe on the frame of the RV and goes into the slide under the fridge. I didn’t see anything that looked like damage so I ran my hand along the hose and there it was. A huge 2 inch hole in the rubber gas hose! It wasn’t a tumble weed that did this; it was the hose lying on one of the RV wheels when the slide is retracted. It doesn't lay on the tire when the slide is open. And you can't see it when the slide is retracted.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>but after looking under the slide with the slide retracted, the propane hose and wiring are squeezed very tight. </b></i></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i>I guess I should have looked up here before now!</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The hose is hung from a support that has ties to allow the hose to slide while remaining away from the wheel when the slide is retracted for travel. A couple of these ties had broken allowing the hose to rub against the wheel. It is possible that the tumbleweed damaged the ties. It was an easy fix to add a couple of plastic wire ties to hold up the hose but the damage was already done. Now the hose needs to be replaced. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The propane hose attaches to the metal pipe on the frame of the RV with a quick disconnect. The quick disconnect has a shut off valve so this hose could be removed and we could still run the furnace, hot water heater, and the generator from propane if need be. We wouldn’t be able to use the stove or the fridge though and the fridge is really the only thing we need at this point. However, like I said before, it’s not a big deal to just turn off the fridge while traveling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I closed off the propane valve and remove the hose with the quick disconnect. There is also a plastic pipe cap to fully close off the pipe to keep dirt out that I put on too. Then all I had to do was pull on the hose and to get the 5 foot of damaged hose out of the RV. The hose had completely been cut in two by the wheel. The other 5 foot was a much harder job to remove and one that I was not going to do here when I just had just a short time to work on it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The hose enters the slide at one corner of the slide and travels in the subfloor of the slide to the other side of the fridge and then enters the slide directly under the connection to the fridge gas piping. I wasn’t sure just what I was going to do to ultimately fix this but I wanted to know if I could purchase this hose or have it made. In order to do this I needed the information about the metal ends of the hose and the size and length of the hose. I already had the first 5 foot of the hose and the quick disconnect parts. Now, I just needed to disconnect the fridge end from the fridge and then cut off the connector and I would have all of the parts. That was relatively easy to do. The hardest part was disconnecting the hose from the fridge. Of course the connector was in a very tight space making it a little difficult to get a wrench on the connector. But after about 30 minutes I managed to get that off too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I cleaned up the parts so I could read the information on them. It looks like I have a ¼ inch hose with the same size quick disconnect and a 3/8 inch flare nut on the other end. The hose measured up at 10 foot long. I also got the manufacturer info from the hose but I wasn’t sure that would be useful. I googled the hose info and found that I could get the hose from a different supplier at 12 foot long for $25 from Amazon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am still not sure if I want to install the hose but at least I could buy the hose and then have an RV tech install it later in Florida if I decide I don’t want to do it. The problem I see with the install of the hose is that it may be tricky getting the old hose out of the subfloor and the new one in. Both ends where it enters the slide subfloor are full of white caulk and mixed with various wires. All of that caulk will need to be removed and then the wires split away. And then hopefully the hose is not secured somehow inside the subfloor. This will be a subject for a post from Florida in the next month.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-11732282301422221312018-05-05T10:31:00.000-05:002018-05-05T10:31:46.735-05:00Bowie Arizona and Apache Pass Hike<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>April 25 - 25, 2018: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After our unplanned 5 day (2 days planned) stay in Phoenix we were finally on the move east again. Our first stop will be a 2 nighter in Bowie AZ. Patty does most of the planning for our travel and has chosen to make up our lost time with the unexpected truck work by alternating 1 and 2 night stays on our trip east to Florida. We like to travel with all 2 night stays but if we need to make up time then we can either travel farther before we stop and/or stay just one night. By staying just one night we don't get any time to explore and it becomes tiring pretty quick. This trip east to Florida is more about getting to Florida so we weren't planning on too much exploring anyway. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also, our travel plan is only tentative as we don’t typically reserve sites in advance. We may change our plans as we go depending on new information.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I usually do a quick check of the travel plans to make sure she/we didn’t miss something or I might just have a different perspective on some of the travel plans. We debated a bit about taking interstate 20 starting in Texas instead of the slightly quicker I 10. But we concluded that the Interstate 10 roadway was way too rough in the Gulf States so we stayed with Patty's original plan of I 20. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Travel to Bowie on I 10 east was uneventful. The 220 mile trip took us about 4 hours. We arrived at Dwayne's Mountain View RV Park a little after 2pm and set up in a nice simple pull through. Mountain View was behind and owned by Dwayne’s Jerky store. Can’t beat the cost of just $15 a night for a 50 amp full hookup!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Apache Pass hike was a very nice hike! There were many things to see and the trail was just the right amount of work for us. However the return trail was a little more ascent than we were led to believe by the park ranger. She said it was a gradual ascent of about 200 feet. No, it was more like a 45% grade of about 500 feet! The downhill side was a more gradual grade with switchbacks. </span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-38264739876134341402018-05-04T08:57:00.001-05:002018-05-04T08:57:47.365-05:00Phoenix Arizona: Friends and Truck Repairs <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>April 20 - 25, 2018: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We left the Yuma area and headed northeast to Phoenix just a 184 mile trip. Between Yuma and Phoenix is the same thing as between San Diego and Yuma, nothing but loads of sand and rocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The one thing I found fascinating is the Gila Bend Solana generating Station that we passed on AZ route 8. It is the largest molten salt solar generation plant in the world that just opened in 2013. It is supposed to deliver 280 MW of electricity! That is enough electricity to power 70,000 homes!! The plant is HUGE at 3 square miles! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, the park gave us a sight we could not possibly get into. The sight was supposed to be a pull through but wasn’t; it was a back in for a trailer without slides of about 25 feet long. The next sight they gave us had a shed sitting on it! Patty is arranging all of this on the phone with the office while we are driving around the park. They tell her they will find a site and call her right back. After about 20 minutes Patty has to call back the park to see what was happening with getting us a site. Now the office gives us a back in site that they said was a pull through but we can fit, barely! We are actually sitting on 2 sites and our 5th wheel nose is over the sidewalk. We had at one point 6 people helping to get us into this site, which was pretty frustrating for Patty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK, now we are in and set up and it is 4pm! We head out to the truck and Patty said that it looks like the truck is leaking. I thought it was the AC at first but after we pulled out it became evident real quick that it was not the AC dripping. We are losing antifreeze! The truck is not overheating so we go ahead and get to our friends Roe & Don's house and we make arrangements for a rental car right away. It’s a Friday evening and I know we won’t get anywhere with service until at least Monday and then most likely we won’t see the truck back until Tuesday or Wednesday. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don drove me to the enterprise rental place and I picked up a Ford Focus. We were back to Don and Roe's house a little before 6pm. We have been through this with the truck before so we knew that we would need a rental car so might as well just get it right away. Now we can relax and have nice social time with friends and not worry about how we are getting around. Patty and I will take the truck to the nearest Ford service center, Bell Ford, in the morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At noon we went back to Don and Roe's to attend a Cajun Food and Music Festival in Chandler AZ. We went with them and their daughter Erica and a couple of their local friends. This festival is held every year but I believe it was the first time it was held here in Chandler. Chandler is about a 30 minute drive from their house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a nice day outside in the sun listening to live music and eating Cajun food with some beer. What can be bad about that! We really enjoy the dry heat of the desert climate here. It was around 90 with 10% humidity so it felt great. We still needed to be in the shade just because it is very intense without any moisture in the air. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I made the mistake of ordering from the wrong food vendor. I ordered some fried catfish and waited 45 minutes to get it. They weren’t that busy it was that they were just very unorganized. I think that they had too much on their menu too. Yeah, I became a restaurant efficiency critic because I had so much time to watch how they did things! The fish was great when I finally got it though. They were cooking everything from scratch. I watched them cook my fish so I saw how it was made. It was hand breaded and individually fried in a separate fryer they had for fish. The problem was that they did this individual attention to each of like 30 items on their menu and there was just 2 people doing all of the work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sunday we went back to Don and Roe's and we brought lunch. Patty made some sloppy joes before we went over and we had some slider rolls in the fridge we needed to use, perfect! Their granddaughter Sammy was in their care so we got meet her. We didn’t stay too long and headed back to the RV for nap!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Monday Morning just as Bell Ford had promised they called with the diagnosis on our truck. They did a pressure test on the cooling system and found the water pump was bad, which I expected, and the radiator was cracked, which I didn’t expect. Anyway, while in there I agreed to have the belt tensioner and the thermostat replaced too. The truck would be ready for us to pick it up tomorrow, Tuesday afternoon and the cost was $3,600! That is the most expensive repair I have had done on the truck to date. Usually the repairs to this truck are around $2,000 and we usually have one of these repairs each year. Let’s hope this is the only one like this this year! The truck is now 10 years old and we heavily use it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now that we know the truck will be back on Tuesday we made plans to leave town heading east on Wednesday. Before we leave though we went out to have dinner at a chain steak house we had never been to before, Black Angus. We went and now we can say that our favorite is still Texas Roadhouse. Actually, the Black Angus was pretty good. We both had the prime rib and it was really good. We just like the atmosphere better at the Roadhouse. The Black Angus tries to be more high end with its atmosphere, less noisy and no peanut shells on the floor type of place. Also, we only had the prime rib, so we don’t know about their steaks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So that’s it for our Phoenix stay and now we are headed further east toward Florida. </span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-79641781707876799392018-05-01T17:45:00.000-05:002018-05-01T17:45:17.520-05:00Yuma Arizona and Los Algodones Mexico<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">April 18 – 20, 2018: </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are now officially on our way back east. And back east we mean all of the way back to the east coast, well the gulf coast of Florida anyway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are leaving Chula Vista CA and heading on Interstate 8 to our first stop in Yuma Arizona. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is our first time on this part of I 8. Interstate 8 travels along the US Mexican border and at times is less than half a mile from the border. In this area you can see the border wall that was built years ago. From the highway, it sort of looks like a rusty line in the sand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We made the 170 mile trip in a little over 3 hours. We were going to stay at the Escapee Park but decided to stay closer to the west side, closer to the border of Mexico. Yuma has loads of RV parks but a lot of them close after the winter season.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We found one called the Roadrunner RV Park. It was OK but way overpriced for what it was. We were having a hard time finding a place open on the west side of town so we pulled in to the Roadrunner RV Park and didn't see an office or any people so we just parked there looking another place to go. While doing our research a guy pulls up in a car and introduces himself as the manager of the Roadrunner. He said he had a spot big enough for us so I guess we are staying here now. The place looked like a $20 a night sort of place, maybe a little more if they had wifi. We moved into a tight back in site right on top of the owners motorhome and found out it was $35 a night; and it did have wifi, albeit sporadic at best, still way too much!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On our one full day here we wanted to visit Los Algodones Mexico again. We were here our first year as full-timers in 2012. This was also the first place we had ever walked across the Mexican Border. Since it was our first walking border crossing we always felt like this was the best place. Now after crossing many places we can see if we still feel this way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before we went to the border crossing we had to make a Walmart run. The closest Walmart was one of those that didn’t have any vegetables so we stopped at a little grocery store very close to the RV Park. As we were leaving the little grocery, I backed out and was getting ready to pull forward and then boom, another car backed into us! I couldn’t even see his little car so it scared the crap out us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The car hit our bumper on the corner and didn’t even take off any paint. The little car hit us with his hatchback door completely pushing it into the car interior. It was a mess! The guy was Mexican and didn’t speak English but I could tell he was very nervous. I was in his blind spot so he didn’t see me when he backed up. There wasn’t any damage to our truck worth noting so I shook his hand and left. This time it was great to be in a BAT (big ass truck)!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ok, now off to the border crossing in California about 8 miles away. Yuma AZ is on the California and Mexican Border with the walking crossing on the California side. There is a large parking lot run by a local Indian reservation. The cost was $6 which was the most we have paid anywhere to park at a border crossing. It is just $2 at our favorite place in Texas. The lot is huge and well organized and since it is after season, plenty of places to park. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It looks to us like they have changed the crossing some since we here 6 years ago. Now we have to walk a little farther and the Mexicans are setting up to check us as we come in. We experienced this in Tijuana a couple of days ago. It does make some sense as we are crossing into the same Mexican state of Baja California. The funny thing is that the Mexican border guard was laying back in a chair at the x-ray machine sleeping! We just walked on past him! Just past the border entrance there is a public restroom. The men’s and woman’s entrances are side by side with a guy in the middle who hands out toilet paper. This guy was asleep too!! The woman ahead of me just took some off of his lap.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was lunch time so we went back to the same place we had lunch 6 years ago. It took us about an hour to find it though! Of course, I thought I knew where it was so we walked around for about an hour before Patty asked someone giving them a description of the place. Wouldn’t you know it; it was just a block from the border where we came in! This place had changed some too but it was so long ago it was hard to say how.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All in all I think I would still say that Los Algodones is the best border crossing we have been too, but not by a lot. The thing I like the most is that it is fairly clean and spread out with nice places to sit outside and have a drink and or some food. The border here is also open until 10 pm too so you could have dinner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is it for the Yuma - Los Algodones area.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next stop Phoenix Arizona.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stay Tuned!</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-82755781614398885662018-04-23T09:28:00.001-05:002018-04-23T09:28:46.092-05:00La Jolla California – Tijuana Mexico<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">April 14 - 17, 2018: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty was back to feeling sort of OK so we headed further south to the San Diego area on Saturday the 14th of June. We have too missions while here, visit with Marge Lawless and her soon to be husband Doug in La Jolla near San Diego and to visit Tijuana Mexico. We have known Marge since meeting her and her late husband Jim in the Yucatan 13 years ago and have stayed in touch since. And Tijuana has just been sort of a bucket list thing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had just 140 miles to travel to get to the Chula Vista KOA Metro RV Park in Chula Vista CA. However, the trip which should have been about 2.5 hours took us a little over 5 hours due to a motorcycle accident near San Diego. Still, this was a Saturday midday and would have never thought there would be this much traffic. The traffic reminded us of going to the beach on the Garden State Parkway (GSP) in NJ on a Saturday morning in summer. Can’t imagine the traffic on a regular work day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We arrived at the RV Park about 4pm, got set up ate some dinner and then crashed for the day. Patty was still recovering, or so we thought, from her hospital stay the day before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next morning, Sunday, we were going to Marge’s house for lunch and some socializing but Patty was not feeling good at all. Her blood sugar was through the roof again and she was having a hard time controlling it. This just wasn’t right! We now know for sure her insulin pump is not working correctly! Patty got in touch with the pump manufacturer, Medtronic, and they are sending her a new pump, it will be here tomorrow morning. This is one of the reasons we now believe she had so much trouble the past week. So we decided to just vegetate here at the RV and see what happens on Monday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now that we knew the pump wasn’t working she started to control her blood sugar with injections only. She doesn’t do this very often so it took a bit to get her sugar level down without going too low. She felt pretty good Monday morning before the pump arrived and even better after she got it! She felt good enough that we finally went to Marge’s house a few miles away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We hadn’t seen Marge in person for over 10 years but have kept in touch on Facebook. And we had not met her new guy Doug. It’s amazing how FB keeps us all together. It felt just like we had just been here a few months ago instead of years! Marge is still a great friend to hang out with and looks fantastic. Doug seems like the perfect match for her too. We had a little wine (me root beer) before we decided to head out to a local bar and grille Marge and Doug recommended. We had a great time and hope we get together again in the future and not wait over 10 years this time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After leaving the train station, it was a little disorientating as there was construction at the border crossing so my walking map was a little off. However, we were so close that it didn’t take us long to figure it out. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the first Mexican border crossing that we had to show our passports to get in. Once we were into Mexico the walking map sort of was useful but there was construction on the Mexican side too! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had heard a lot stories about how bad Tijuana had gotten in past years. We are here to say that is definitely in the past. The people are helpful and friendly and very much less in your face as it is in most of the other border crossings. The streets are very clean too. The prices were pretty in line with other border crossing but the variety of merchandise was much greater than any of the others we have been to. All in all it was great experience.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>We had lunch at the Hotel Nelson. It was windy and the air was a little cool coming off of the ocean. We wanted to sit outside in the sun but in the sun it was windy</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Great food! The salsa was so damn hot I could hardly eat it, but I did!</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>We eventually went up to this balcony to have a couple beers. Note the guy waving at us trying to get us to come up for drinks.</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>The streets and sidewalks are extremely clean</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>It looks like they are milk jugs. I didn't know that until I looked at the pictures</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>This the place we had a couple beers on the balcony. It is a nightclub. This place looks as if it is hopping at night. The border stays open until 10pm here. I wouldn't be afraid to stay in a hotel here either.</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After a few hours we were ready to return to the US. That was very easy too! We just had to look at a taxi on the street and they would turn around and park right in front of you. No hailing needed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty had left a bag at Marge’s house on Monday so after getting back to the truck we headed another 30 minutes to Marge’s house to retrieve it. As we were heading back into San Diego we noticed that the other side of the highway was bumper to bumper with traffic. Ah, rush hour had arrived as it was 5pm!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After getting the bag from Marge’s, Patty plotted a course along the coast and directly through San Diego. This route would keep us off the main highways but we would now be in the city. We are not sure we saved any time but the sightseeing was great. We had never been in downtown San Diego so this was a nice extra!</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-43083827284284604932018-04-19T20:32:00.000-05:002018-04-19T20:32:13.994-05:00Vacation from RVing: PCH to Monterey and Yosemite National Park<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>April 7 - 14, 2018: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have been planning this short vacation trip for a while now. The plan originally was to get a convertible and drive along the coast with the top open, real cool like. However, we didn’t think about it being too cold this time of year to do that. It’s not cold inland but not hot enough to make up for the cold Pacific air. Inland the temperatures are in the low 70s and 50s at night. The coast is still close to 40 at night with only low 60s in the daytime. There is a lot of sun but really cold wind! So we saved some money and got a full size regular car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hearst Castle has 7 different tours; one for the main rooms, one for the upstairs bedrooms and suites, one called designing the dream, Hearst and Hollywood, Art of San Simeon, Cottages and Kitchens, and evening tour. Each of the tours was priced around $25 each. This is actually a pretty good deal as tours go today. We took the main rooms tour as this is recommended for first timers like us. The tour is about 2 h</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ours long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had no idea that this castle was this big and was built around the depression. The first part being built before the depression and then finished just after WWII over a 30 year period. The truly amazing thing is that this place was built in what is still the middle of nowhere. And before the depression, it was even farther than nowhere! Back before the depression, Hearst had to make his own electricity for the place. He had a hydroelectric generation station just for the castle! Even by today’s standards, this is beyond decadent! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Day 2 was going to be half driving north on the PCH and some time in Monterey. It started out real good. We weren’t but a few miles in and we see a few cars pulled over with people taking pictures. That’s usually a good sign something is happening that we will want to see too. At first, it looked like people were taking pictures of cows; not something that appealed to either of us. At the last minute, we saw zebras and lots of them! We were just south of San Simeon and Hearst castle so these were descendants of the zebras Hearst had here for his zoo. How cool!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We got another 10 miles north and were just settling in to the drive and the great views of the coast when we encountered a sign telling us that the road was closed ahead in 10 miles. And it also said that there were no detours! Well shit! We kept driving and seeing the great views until we rounded a corner right at the entrance to Big Sur where we encountered barricades. It seems that the road is closed due to a mud slide in Big Sur. Now for the even worse part, we will need to back track to before where we stayed the night near Cambria, 31 miles! Then we will travel 24 miles inland before heading north again! It worked out to an extra 2 hours travel time and no great views! Oh yeah, now I <u>had</u> to get some of that expensive gas in Ragged Point! Just purchased $20!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We arrived in Monterey about 2 in the afternoon and decided to have lunch on Cannery Row. It was very windy with temperatures around 65. It was damn uncomfortable to walk around in that cold wind. We found a nice but a bit touristy place overlooking the Monterey Bay for lunch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We walked the entire length of Cannery Row with the intention of going to the Aquarium. I had gone 30 years ago and only remember it was a great experience. This time, however, we couldn’t get over the high cost of a ticket to get in. It was $49.95 each to visit an aquarium!! We just couldn’t wrap our heads around visiting an aquarium for $100. So we left and walked back to the car and headed to a hotel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another disappointment was that there weren’t any sea lions or seals. When I was here 30 years ago they were everywhere! We didn’t see any at all! The only animals we saw were tourists and birds. I know the sea lions have been decreasing there but to not even see one! So, for me, Monterey was not so much fun and not nearly as nice as I remember 30 years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are here way before the tourist season so there weren’t any crowds to speak of. I just can’t imagine being here during tourist season though. There is really only one main road in from the east and it is a slow winding road to the village. Even if you are staying in the village it would be very hard to get around with loads of people. We are so glad we went when we did.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had great weather while we were there with temps in the low 70s during the day. It quickly got cold after the sun went down though, close to 40 degrees. The only bad part of being there this early was that the road to Glacier Point was still snowed in. We still got to do quite a bit of hiking around the village and see most of the famous sites from there. And we had no problem parking either which I don’t think would be even possible after Memorial Day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On our last evening after getting back from the park, Patty let me know she wasn’t doing well health wise. Her blood sugar had been high for two days and now she was going to run out of insulin. Not good at all. She doesn’t have a syringe or any needed pump supplies to refill her insulin pump. So even if we drove the 100 miles to the nearest Walmart for insulin, she has no way of using it! Yeah it was also now 5pm and getting dark. She wasn’t feeling sick form DKA (High Blood Sugar) yet but that was coming. I suggested going to the local hospital in Mariposa but she didn’t want to do that. So we went to bed and were going to wing it and drive the 5.5 hours back to LA tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Los Robles hospital was great! She was seen quickly and by 3 doctors in the first couple hours. As I expected she was admitted and spent the night there. By the evening the next day they released her and we headed back to our RV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In summary, the Hearst Castle was great and worth visiting. The PCH drive was a little disappointing but we got a taste of driving the coast, all was good there. Monterey wasn't worth the drive for me especially since there wasn't even sea lions to see. The 17 mile drive Pebble Beach tour made up for Monterey a bit. Yosemite was great but glad we went in the off season! Patty getting sick was a bummer but has become normal now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This area is called the high desert and it looks it. The area here is basically all sand. We took the time here to just chill out a bit. I took the time here to get a haircut and to take an interval walk. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>While walking in the campground we saw this homemade camper. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Wednesday the 4th we headed another 127 miles to the Thousand Oaks area north of Los Angeles. The actual town is Newbury Park. We are here to visit our friends Marshall and his partner Bill. Patty worked for Marshall back 15 years ago at a Pharmaceutical Company in New Jersey. It has been 12 years since we last visited them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We traveled I 15 to CA 101 through Pasadena to get to their house. We were traveling around noon and the traffic was still very heavy! Marshall and Bill graciously offered us their driveway to store our rig while we took a tour up the PCH to Monterey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Seems we arrived a day early! We had told our hosts we were arriving on Thursday and we arrived on Wednesday. No idea why or how that happened but here we are early. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It probably had something to do with our plan to stay longer too. Patty’s friend from High school, Bill Fichtner, offered to have us attend a taping of a series show he is in called Mom. He extended the offer for Marshall and Bill too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Friday was the big LA tour event for us. The taping was at 6:30pm but we needed to be at Universal Studios by 5:15pm to get to our reserved seats. Due to the traffic around the area we decided to go into LA just before noon and have lunch and then see a few sights before heading over to the studio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty’s nephew Brian Schoemcher’s wife Ina has a sister Caroline who is being considered for best chef in LA. She is the chef at the restaurant Beelman’s near the studio. Marshall drove us all into the city and we had lunch at Beelman’s and met Caroline. The food is all vegan and it was very, very good!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The OUE is 70 floors above the city of LA. Marshall and Bill live there and were not interested in going up so they waited for us while we went up. The cost to go up was $26 each! If we wanted to do the slide it would be $8 more each. We thought it was way too much but it is what it is so we paid and went up. We, however, didn’t do the slide. The slide is a Plexiglas square channel you can slide down one floor on the outside of the building 70 floors up. It is sort of a cool idea but it is way too short, mostly for kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since we were invited by one of the stars of the show we had front row seats right in the center! We were in the first wave of people coming in so we were sitting in our seats just a little after 5pm and the taping didn’t start till 6:30pm. We could have arrived as late as 5:45pm and still got our reserved seats. It was all good though because we weren’t sitting in traffic stressing about getting there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We couldn’t take cameras or cell phones in so we have no pictures inside the studio. We thought it would take maybe an hour to tape the 20 minutes that make up the half hour show. Boy we were wrong! It took about 2 and half hours to do the taping. And we were sitting from 5 pm so we sat for 4 hours!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now after seeing this I think everyone should see a series taping. I had no idea how many people and time it took to do this. Oh yeah, these actors are amazing to watch live! It was a great experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the show Bill invited us to join him at the Smoke House just a block away. As he said, this place is old school Hollywood. It had deep red carpets and open booth seating with a lot of wood paneling and such. We all had a great time talking about the show, Buffalo, and old times in high school.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Thank you Bill Fichtner!!</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What a day, we arrived back at Marshall and Bill`s place just after midnight! We were up early the next morning and getting ready for our tour of the PCH, Monterey, Carmel by the Sea, and then Yosemite National Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had great time catching up with Marshall and Bill. Bill cooked the best food while we were there. Many thank you both Marshall and Bill for putting us up and allowing us to park in their driveway.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-89164956447297366682018-04-05T18:06:00.003-05:002018-04-05T18:08:49.606-05:00RV-Dreams Reunion Rally, Pahrump Nevada <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">March 27 – April 2, 2018: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So we just got Patty out of the hospital ER around 4:30 pm and are now rushing to get back to the Rally Campground. They were having sign ins and after was a dinner. I had sent Howard Payne (Howard and his wife Linda are the organizers, they are RV-Dreams) a text earlier in the afternoon saying that I wasn’t sure we would make the sign in or even dinner. Well we made it by 6pm just in time for the dinner seconds line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A little about the history of RV-Dreams and why this rally. Howard and Linda Payne are the creators of RV-Dreams around 13 years ago to help people understand how to become full-time RVers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Full-time basically meaning that you live in your RV all of the time. You may still own a house but most ditch the house, buy an RV, and travel full-time. RV-Dreams does this education by having educational rallies around the country where you can attend in an RV or, as we did, stay in a hotel. These rallies are structured with daily seminars about making the decision to go “full-time”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two years ago Howard and Linda decided to have the first ever reunion rally which was held in Marion NC. The reunion rally was held for anyone who has ever attended an RV-Dreams educational rally in the past. This rally was to be just a fun time together and to share experiences. We attended the first rally on the east coast because we had attended our first educational rally with RV-Dreams in Sevierville TN. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year Howard and Linda organized this rally to be in the west. We are attending this one as we attended our second educational rally in Harrisburg Oregon just after we became full-time RVers in 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the last day, Sunday it was mainly everyone leaving the campground and saying goodbyes, except us. We stayed another day so we could just relax on our own before heading further on to the west coast. We made reservations for dinner that evening at the “best” restaurant in Pahrump, Symphony. Symphony is located at the entrance to the campground so we could walk. We had an excellent dinner there and would highly recommend having a meal there.</span><br />
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Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-41377412315693501772018-04-02T11:31:00.000-05:002018-04-02T11:31:01.090-05:00New Mexico – Pahrump Nevada<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>March 20 - 26 2018: </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are headed to the RV-Dreams rally in Pahrump NV that starts on Tuesday March 27th. It took us a week to get out of Texas and now we have a week to travel the rest of the way to the rally in Nevada.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We basically are traveling on I 10 to Phoenix and then 60/93 to Las Vegas and then 160 to Pahrump NV. The trip for the week is just under 700 miles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even the Prince of Tucson was very close to full as we took the only space they had. This is one of the places where they really pack the RVs into very narrow spaces. The sites are long at around 70 feet but just 12 feet wide. They alternate the pull through sites direction of entry so that the RVs can alternate the space for their slides. It actually wasn’t too bad!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We ended up with 2 full days here because Patty got sick while here. That is why we travel the way we do, short distances with a 2 night minimum. That allows us to stay longer in a place if we need to and then make it up with either longer travel or a shorter stay somewhere. Since we were getting close to our destination we will need to make a one night stay our next stop and still be on time for Monday the 26th in Pahrump NV.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the same condition Patty got into while we were in Canada last year. She went into DKA Friday evening for a reason that baffles the shit out of me. DKA is a serious condition a diabetic gets when their blood sugars are too high for too long. How high and how long varies with the person but generally over 300 blood sugar of a couple of days. As far as we know her blood sugar was never that high for any length of time so why DKA, we don’t know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our first full day in Tucson, Friday the 23rd, we went to the Tucson RV show at the convention center. We wanted to see some bumper pull RVs and we found out that Howard and Linda from RV-Dreams were giving seminars there too! We looked at a bunch of RVs in our weight class but so many were either toy haulers or had bunks in them. We did get an idea of the size RV we are looking at in our weight class of 8,000 lbs. It seems we are in the 28-30 foot size with one slide and they look very doable for us. Nothing there really appealed to us though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After spending an hour or so looking at RVs we headed up to where the seminars were being held to see Howard and Linda in action. It is pretty funny when they asked us why we were there; we told them we were on our way to see them in Pahrump!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty woke up during the night nauseous. That’s how this always starts! By morning she was in bad shape. I went out to a local Walgreens and got some anti-nauseous medication. The thing is we need for Patty to drink fluids so she won’t dehydrate. When I got back with the meds, I went to the office and extended our stay another day. Then I started my insistence that she go to an ER to get treated. We have been through this enough that, at least I know, she won’t get over this on her own. She didn’t want to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Sunday the 25th Patty isn’t feeling any better but she wants us to move on. Our next stop will be Wikieup Arizona about 250 miles north-west. Wikieup will be a one night stay before heading the last 200 or so miles to Pahrump NV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We stayed in Wikiup at the Dazzo’s Country Store and RV Park for just $10! The site was just 30 amp but that was fine for us. This is where the temperature started to change the higher elevation desert type for this time of year. The daytime temperatures are very nice in the 70-80s but at night it went down into the high 30s! It also was very dry at around 15% humidity. This place was just fine for an overnight stay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The wait at the clinic was 3 hours to be seen! The good thing was that the staff in the clinic were very good and knew what Patty needed, which was surprising. They even worked on her past the closing time of 8pm! They gave her 5 pints of saline and meds for her nausea. She was feeling much better when we left.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The good feeling didn’t last too long! The next morning Patty was having issues again although not as severe. She now decided to go to the local hospital ER and get fixed up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The hospital here in Pahrump is very small with only 25 beds. This area is growing like crazy and really needs a much larger hospital. We didn’t wait too long to be seen, but the ER was packed. Patty got a bed in the hallway which had a number so we knew this was a permanent sort of thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They gave her more fluids and that seemed to fix her for the most part. She still has trouble eating because it hurts when the food goes down toward her stomach. We will see how this goes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We left our winter site at Natures Resort last Wednesday the 14th and we are now leaving Texas and are heading further west. So it has taken us a week to get out of Texas with our 200 miles of travel a day and a minimum stay of 2 nights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We made 3 stops in Texas on our way out. We stopped in San Antonio (221 miles), Ozona (219 miles), and finally in Van Horn Texas (226 miles). Our first stop in San Antonio we used our one full day to explore the Shops at La Cantera. We have seen most of what we want to see in San Antonio so we decided to go here for lunch and some shopping. This is a large outdoor shopping mall located on the northwest side of the city. We were at the Braunig Lake RV Resort on the southeast side, of course! We had to traverse the city from one end to the other for a distance of 25 miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had dinner on our first night, Friday, at the Hitchin Post on the eastern side of town. We both had the fish fry dinner, it was Friday after all. The fish and fries were very good too! We had 2 beers which to get we had to pay our $5 for drinking privileges at the restaurant. The county is dry but you can consume alcohol at private clubs. To be a private club you need to have everyone pay $5 for 3 days that goes to the county. It really is hard to believe the citizens went for this but the beliefs of people around this country we have found are really different from place to place!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ozona was originally an oil place and then it was known for wool and mohair manufacturing and now it is an oil and gas place. The town has a museum that we wanted to visit but it was closed even though the sign says it was to be open. A local we met told us that they never really know when it will be open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We walked around the town on our one full day there. We visited an antiques shop where the owner was all too happy to bend our ears. He told us about the history of the town and his personal history. It was as good as the museum! One of the things of note here is that the town of Ozona is the only town in the entire county of Crockett (named after Davey)!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That was it for Ozona Texas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our next and last stop in Texas was the Desert Willow RV Park in Van Horn Texas 226 miles from Ozona. Van Horn is just next to being in the middle of nowhere. Van Horn has many RV Parks and motels as well as many restaurants. It’s a very nice place to just stay the night. We couldn’t beat the nightly rate of $14! Would have been $13.50 but we used a credit card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is the Clark Museum here that is open. Not a great museum but a very nice lady who runs it will spend as much time you as you can stand, ah, I mean want! And the best thing is it is free, but they do take donations. The museum is really a work in progress. It borders on someone’s collection of antiques from the area piled up in different rooms. It’s better than that but not far off either. Not sure about Patty but I enjoy that sort of thing, listening to locals talk about themselves and their part of the country. We managed to spend an hour there anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Tuesday the 20th and the first day of spring we headed off to our next stop in Deming New Mexico. This takes us out of Texas after a week of traveling from our winter spot in the Rio Grande Valley. The Texas Border is about 12 miles North West of El Paso Texas which is 140 miles from Van Horn. The total distance from our winter site in the RGV to the border of New Mexico is 804 miles. We traveled the 804 miles in 7 days, 4 days moving and 3 days exploring.</span></div>
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<br />Mark and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06287724761807198985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-867960884423363736.post-71491458565375907452018-03-14T09:19:00.000-05:002018-03-14T09:19:17.322-05:00Leaving our Winter Home and Heading West<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">March 14, 2018: </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are leaving a couple months early this year. We usually don’t leave Texas until the end of April or 1st of May. This year we have a lot we want to do early in the season so we need the time.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>We are always amazed at the size of the vegetables here in south TX. The 2 on the right were ones we had from up north.</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Patty had eye surgery to implant a drain in her left eye. It is permanent tube into her eye with a drain contraption on the outside of her eye under her lid. This was taken just after the surgery. It is to reduce the pressure in that eye and it has worked!</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>It took about an hour and a half per chair and we had 5 chairs. We did them over a 2 week period.</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>I shared a birthday with these ladies in January. We had a great dinner </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><b>celebration at the Texas Roadhouse. </b></i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>The old one out and ready for the new bigger one.</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>The new one on the floor ready to be lifted into place.</i></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are headed to Pahrump Nevada first to an RV Dreams Rally at the end of March. The rally is about 1400 miles north and west of us here in south Texas. Since we don’t drive a long distance every day (200 miles) and we stop for at least 2 nights, it will take us 2 weeks to get to the rally site.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This has been the coldest season here in south TX for us. This was our 5th year here in the Rio Grande Valley. We probably had more cold days here this year than warm days. I’m not sure that is true but it has felt like it. And when we say cold we mean anything below 70 really. Real cold for us would be anything below 50 and we have had way too many of those days too! In December we even had snow! And the snow even stuck to the ground enough to build a small snowman. It was said here that the snow was the first in 13 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year is promising to be a change year for us. We are planning to purchase a house in the south of Tampa Florida area and downsize the RV. We plan to purchase a house in May-June and then continue our usual travel into October. At that time we will head back to Florida to downsize the RV. We want to trade the truck for a large (Ford Expedition size) SUV and the 5th wheel for a travel trailer in the 8,000 lb size (around 28 feet). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the downsize, we plan to return to our place in south Texas for the remainder of the winter season. We most likely will sell our place there in 2019. Our future plan is to stay in Florida during the winter and travel shorter duration trips in the summer. THAT CAN CHANGE!! Anything is possible at this point!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is it for today. We are headed today to San Antonio for our first stop on our way north and west.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stay Tuned!</span><br />
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