Okay, Plan B

 Posted by at 12:25 am  Nick's Blog
Jun 092017
 

You have heard me say it before and I guarantee you will hear me say it again – always have a Plan B. And it doesn’t hurt to have a Plan C and a Plan D, too, just in case. You never know when they will come in handy. Our original plan (Plan A) was […]

Maybe It’s Jealous

 Posted by at 12:02 am  Nick's Blog
Jun 082017
 

Thanks to everybody for your suggestions about the problem with our bedroom slide out. Yesterday morning I went outside and ran the living room slide in and out with no problems and tested the leveling jacks, and they worked fine. But the bedroom slide still wouldn’t do anything. Then, just to see, I started the […]

Just Don’t Have One!

 Posted by at 12:02 am  Nick's Blog
Mar 262016
 

Today’s blog is going to start with a bit of a rant and it’s not about a pleasant subject, so you may want to scroll down or skip today’s post. I got an e-mail from some folks who were upset about an incident that did not have to happen and just pisses me off. They […]

Oct 292015
 

It rained hard all night Tuesday night, and when the alarm went off at 7:30 yesterday morning neither one of us wanted to crawl out of bed. But we had miles to cover in another day on the road, so after snuggling for half an hour or so we finally did get our bodies into […]

Raining Sideways

 Posted by at 12:02 am  Nick's Blog
Oct 112015
 

It’s been a cold, ugly weekend here on the Oregon coast. Lots of rain, lots of wind, high waves… at times it was blowing so hard that it seemed like it was raining sideways. In short, it’s been a good weekend to hunker down inside the motorhome and write. So that’s what I’ve been doing. […]

A Trip From Hell

 Posted by at 12:37 am  Nick's Blog
Aug 182014
 

I wrote in yesterday’s blog that we only had a short 45 mile drive from the Hershey Thousand Trails to the Gettysburg Farm RV Resort near Dover, Pennsylvania. Easy peasy. Yeah, right. It was raining when we woke up and continued while I had my Corn Pops, checked e-mail, and answered those that needed immediate […]

Last Day In Elkhart

 Posted by at 12:05 am  Nick's Blog
Jul 062014
 

Where does the time go? Half the year is behind us already and I’m still dating things 2013. And, this our last day in Elkhart. Tomorrow we’re heading to the Indian Lakes Thousand Trails preserve in Batesville, Indiana. We’ve been here over two months and it seems like it’s been just a couple of weeks. […]

Oct 242013
 

Yesterday morning Miss Terry woke me up at 6:30, and she’d already been up for an hour or so. Now, I don’t care what all you worm eating early birds say, morning sucks. Especially cold mornings where my nice warm bed calls out and says, “Please don’t leave me!” But alas, I had to. We […]

Blowing In The Wind

 Posted by at 3:23 am  Nick's Blog
May 042013
 

The wind blew all of Thursday night and most of the day yesterday. It rocked the Winnebago all night long, and when we woke up yesterday morning we could actually see our bedroom slide visibly moving with each strong gust. We’ve been in some bad windstorms over the years, but never anything like that! For […]

Our Trip Is Over!

 Posted by at 12:22 am  Nick's Blog
Jun 092012
 

Because we wanted to be on the road fairly early yesterday morning, the night before we hooked up the Explorer to our Blue Ox tow bar, and Terry put things away inside the motorhome so that all we would have to do was unhook our campground utilities, pull in our slide rooms and retract our […]

What Every RV Needs

 Posted by at 12:02 am  Nick's Blog
Mar 232012
 

Miss Terry had a very rough night Wednesday night, with coughing, a fever, and an upset stomach. All that on top of just coming off of a colonoscopy. The poor lady was just miserable! So yesterday was a stay-at-home day. I think part of it is that we are just both so run down from […]

I Have Webbed Feet!

 Posted by at 12:14 am  Nick's Blog
Oct 212011
 

Miss Terry always teases me about my Flintstone feet, because they are short and wide, and I can’t deny the resemblance to old Fred Flintstone of Bedrock fame. Well, except I have five toes on each foot, and I think Fred only had three. Well, I think I have five toes on each. I did […]

Bad Nick & RV Clods

 Posted by at 12:59 am  Nick's Blog
Sep 132011
 

I will admit it, I  have become one of those kind of people!  We always believe that it will never happen to us, but it’s true. I have become the kind of grouchy old fart that seems to have little patience for rudeness and stupidity, and there are times when I don’t hesitate to take […]

I Need An Intervention

 Posted by at 12:01 am  Nick's Blog
May 152011
 

I need an intervention. Yesterday morning I was up by 7 a.m. for the third time in a week. This nonsense has to stop! With the power still out on our side of the Thousand Trails campground, we planned to leave Las Vegas, but first I wanted to swing by the Speedco and get the […]

Winter Returns

 Posted by at 3:00 am  Nick's Blog
Feb 202011
 

After having to get up early all week while we were getting our TV cabinets upgraded at RV Renovators, I can’t begin to tell you how nice it was to sleep in yesterday morning. Especially given the weather! We had enjoyed temperatures in the low 80s for a while, but now winter has returned to […]

It’s Done!

 Posted by at 3:29 am  Nick's Blog
Feb 192011
 

I have to be honest, when we got up yesterday morning, I wasn’t entirely sure that the guys at RV Renovators would meet our deadline of getting finished by the end of the day. But Billy had told us not to worry, and true to his word, at 4:45 he backed our motorhome out of […]

Stood Up

 Posted by at 3:03 am  Nick's Blog
Feb 142011
 

I have to admit that we were not at all surprised when the fellow from Awning Man, the mobile service that installed our slide covers, never showed up as he had promised to yesterday, to fix the sloppy awning we complained about. When he left here the other day, Terry and I could tell that […]

Feb 122011
 

The fabric on the slide topper awnings on the two slide rooms on our motorhome had become very frayed and nasty looking, so when we were here in Apache Junction last year, we had a mobile awning repair company replace  them. Since the company was recommended by a friend who is an A&E factory rep, […]

A Day On I-80

 Posted by at 4:04 am  Nick's Blog
Sep 092010
 

Yesterday morning Daryl and Judy Patterson stopped over to say hello and goodbye as we were getting ready to leave Elkhart Campground.  We only had a minute to chat before they left so we could get everything unhooked and ready to take off. Experienced RVers like Daryl and Judy know that if you get preoccupied […]

A Rude Awakening

 Posted by at 4:19 am  Nick's Blog
Aug 222010
 

I got a rude awakening early yesterday morning, when my dream about having my very own harem was interrupted by a large, cold drop of water plopping down onto my forehead. Instantly, Brittany, Bambi, Tabitha, Tanya, and the rest of my “girls” disappeared and I bolted upright in bed, just in time for another dollop […]