I spent all day yesterday working on my new Tinder Street book and getting two more chapters finished. Since I don’t have anything new to tell you, instead I’m sharing a blog from several years back that I thought you might enjoy. I wish you could have met my father. He was quite a character. […]
Yesterday we had a visit from Ed Hackenbruch, an old friend from our days as full-time RVers. I can’t remember exactly when we first met Ed and his wife Stevi, but it was back when we had our MCI bus conversion, and at the same time they also lived and traveled in an MCI bus. […]
My love affair with motorcycles started when I was a teenager. I bought my first bike, a 1967 Triumph Bonneville T120 with a 650cc engine, with money I earned mowing lawns and shoveling snow. A year or so later I bought a 750cc Norton Commando. I rode both of those motorcycles everywhere I could until […]
I know you want to read about the rest (and worst part) of our move from Alabama to our old hometown of Show Low, Arizona, and I want to tell you about it. But not today. I have something much more important to share with you today because it’s Miss Terry’s birthday. I don’t have […]
Guys, you know how women are. When they want something done, they will nag you month after month after month, not realizing that you’ll get around to it eventually and don’t need all that reminding. Case in point – when we first bought our house here in Alabama there were lights underneath the kitchen cabinets, […]
Terry and I were heartbroken to learn that our dear friend Ron Speidel passed away on Wednesday. He was an amazing man and one of the most intelligent people I have ever known. From RVing to anything mechanical, to history and life in general, Ron was a wealth of knowledge and he was always happy […]
I’m a klutz. I was born a klutz, I’ve been a klutz all of my life, and I have no doubt that I will die a klutz. When I was a kid, my dad used to say that I should probably get a job in a mattress factory when I grew up, that would be […]
In yesterday’s blog, I said that if I kept at it I should be able to wrap up my newest book, The Ballad Of John Lee, this weekend. Yesterday I wrote over 6,000 words, and I will be finishing the book today, barring any catastrophic circumstances. It’s going to be good to get this one […]
Now that we’ve been home for a week after our three week long trip to Arizona and back, I thought I would share some impressions about our Airstream Interstate B van on the Mercedes Sprinter chassis in reply to those who have asked. I think Terry and I would agree that overall, our first impression […]
The wind was blowing hard when we left Show Low Thursday morning. But with snow predicted for the weekend, we sure didn’t want to hang around there! US Highway 60 is the main route heading south, and we followed it through dense pine forests onto the White Mountain Apache Reservation. After a while, the tall […]
Note: Here is a repost of my blog from 10 years ago today. Most RVers are really nice people but they don’t give you a personality test before they let you buy one of these things, and like every aspect of life, there are a few snobs out there, as well as clods and outright […]
Did you ever hear somebody say something, and for a moment all you can do is stare at them and wonder who ties their shoes for them in the morning? I’ve been on both sides of that conversation, and trust me, sometimes I’ve had to wonder who ties my shoes for me in the morning. […]
In two posts last summer I wrote about some changes I wanted to do in the barn to make it more user friendly for my needs. Our son Travis helped me with the first two parts of that project, including removing the old horse stalls on one end of the barn so I would have […]
Yesterday was a wet and dreary day here in Alabama, and I spent most of it at my computer, writing another 3,500 words in my next John Lee Quarrels novel. So I thought I would dust off an old blog from our days as fulltime RVers, when I taught some rude jerks a lesson. Years […]
Yesterday morning started with a visit from a man named Wayne and his lady friend Anita, who came to pick up the old sheet metal from the barn roof and any other metal I had laying around to take to a recycler. They had a utility trailer, but were able to bend the long sheets […]
Note: This is a repost of a blog from 2020 that I thought we could all enjoy. There is so much doom and gloom in the world today and everybody seems to be uptight, angry, and frustrated with the way things are going. So I thought today we would just lighten things up a little […]
Note: Since all we have done the last few days is fill boxes in preparation for our move to Alabama, I thought I’d repost a blog about how far technology has come since we became fulltime RVers way back in 1999. No, we didn’t always have WiFi and cell phones that work as hotspots, and […]
Note: This is a repost from December, 2015 that I think is just as appropriate today. When people ask me how I come up with all the plots I use in my mystery novels, I tell them I’m not really all that creative, I just write down what the voices in my head tell me […]
Note: This is a repeat of a blog post from 2014 that is just as true today, and may burst someone’s bubble, but it’s something they need to understand about the fulltime RV lifestyle. I get a lot e-mails and letters to the editor and see posts online from people with limited funds who want […]
Note: I have told this story before, but a couple of readers have asked me to repost it again. I wish you could have met my father. He was quite a character. He could play any instrument with keys or strings, though he never had a lesson in his life and couldn’t read music. He […]