We had a great day yesterday. Our friends Jim and Chris Guld, better known as the Geeks on Tour, spent last week presenting some of their great techno seminars at the Orlando Thousand Trails Preserve and decided to drive up and see us.
It seems like we have known Jim and Chris forever, and we have crossed paths over and over in our RV travels and working the RV rally circuit. It’s been close to a year since the last time we saw them, but as it always is with good friends, time apart means nothing. We had a wonderful time reminiscing, showing them our new house, and catching up on events in all our lives in the past few months.
If you have never been to one of the Geeks’ seminars, you don’t know what you’re missing. If it has anything to do with computers, digital cameras, smart phones, or any other kind of techno toy, they wrote the book on it.
No, seriously. Among their many other activities, which includes teaching classes all over the country, blogging, podcasting, putting out a newsletter, and sharing their vast knowledge on all things technical, they recently published their first book, Google Photos. We’ve got a copy and it’s amazing how much information they crammed into it.
And because they are always willing to share their knowledge, they gave Miss Terry, me, and our friend Jim Lewis a mini-seminar on Google Photos, the benefits of storing photographs on the cloud, and all kinds of other valuable information.
We all went to lunch at one of our favorite local restaurants, the SeaShack in New Smyrna Beach. As always, the food was excellent, and the company was even better. Jim is neither an RVer nor a techno-head, but he still had a good time, and learned some things about his new smart phone in the process.
Here’s a picture of the five of us at lunch. That’s Jim Lewis in the left front, then Terry, and me, and Chris is in the right rear, with Jim Guld in the right front. Now that’s a crowd of hooligans you don’t want showing up on your doorstep late some night!
Back at our house after lunch, we visited some more, and Chris gave me my own official Geeks on Tour baseball cap. How cool is that?
If you’re going to be at the Escapees Escapade rally in Tucson, Arizona in March, be sure to sit in on some of their seminars. I promise you that you are going to have fun and learn a lot at the same time. Thanks for coming to see us, Jim and Chris. It was a real treat!
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Nick, are the Gulds doing any more seminars while they are in Florida? I attended one of their seminars several years ago and learned so much! We’re snowbirds at Bowling Green Florida, (not far from 1000 Trails Peace River park) and I would love to attend another one of their seminars.
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Norma,
I believe they are doing some in Arcadia in a week or two. Check their website to be sure.
Nick,
Not sure you’d remember me, but I was part of the Three Texas Tiffins at one of your winter AZ rallies. Anyway, Patsy and I were in Kissimmee for the Mecum auto auction with one of our RICH friends, and we wanted to see the beaches, and we went by your new neighborhood.
I drove in and recognized your home from a picture on your blog. However, there were three SUV’s parked around the place, so we figured you had company (and were were right), so we went on to the beach. Nice home!
Just wanted you to know you dodged a bullet……….not because of Patsy and I, but our friends!!!!!!!!
We have moved on to Tampa for the RV show.
Next time!!
Richard King
If you haven’t checked the launch scheduled here’s the new update
THIS LAUNCH SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
LAUNCH DATE: JANUARY 19, 2017
LAUNCH VEHICLE: ATLAS V
PAYLOAD: SBIRS GEO-3
LAUNCH WINDOW: 7:46 P.M. TO 8:26 P.M. EST
LAUNCH SITE: LAUNCH PAD 41
MISSION: SPACE BASED INFRARED SYSTEM GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITE
LAUNCH DATE: NO EARLIER THAN JANUARY 26, 2017
LAUNCH VEHICLE: FALCON 9
PAYLOAD: ECHOSTAR-23
LAUNCH WINDOW: TO BE ANNOUNCED
LAUNCH SITE: LAUNCH PAD 39A
MISSION: COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE
LAUNCH DATE: FEBRUARY 8, 2017
LAUNCH VEHICLE: FALCON 9
PAYLOAD: CRS-10
LAUNCH WINDOW: TO BE ANNOUNCED
LAUNCH SITE: LAUNCH PAD 39A
MISSION: COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY SERVICE TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Oh, I wish you would have stopped, Richard. We’d have loved to see you guys again.
Thanks for the info, Ed!
Hey Nick, I really wanted to personally congratulate you on your Florida home! It was great to see you and Terry. You two were some of the first full timers we met – back in 2004 at Life on Wheels in your beautiful custom bus. Every time we saw you in the years since I’ve been more impressed with your accomplishments, principles, and success. Keep it up!