Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a morning person. Never have been, never will be. I used to do a lot of hunting and fishing, but I never subscribed to the theory that you have to roll out of bed at O-Dark-30 just to ambush a bunny rabbit or hook a trout. […]
After reading yesterday’s blog, longtime reader Gene Teggatz suggested that maybe I need to consider having a sign made that says “Visitors Welcome Today” and a second sign that says “Visitors Not Welcome Today,” or perhaps a more diplomatic one saying “Please let me get some work done today.” Really, we don’t mind visitors dropping […]
With the FMCA rally over, we took in just about enough to cover our expenses getting into the event, and make a small wage for ourselves, if we had been children working in a Chinese sweat shop someplace. Financially, it was just about our worst rally ever, even though there were thousands of RVers in […]
Miss Terry has been busy the last couple of days finishing a project on our MCI bus conversion. When we started the conversion, we left the escape hatch in the roof of our bus, which was in the bedroom, accessible. When we had our tripod mounted HughesNet satellite dish, we installed a custom roof mount […]
RVers love blogging! These electronic newsletters provide us with a way to share our traveling adventures with our friends and families back home, and to keep in touch with other RVers we meet along the way. Blogs allow us to remain a part of our children’s and grandchildren’s lives; they can log in and see […]
Being sick last week put me behind schedule getting the new issue of the Gypsy Journal out, so now I’m pushing the clock to get finished. I know I should have been working on it last week, but my brain was just too darned foggy to concentrate. I’d start to write something and halfway through […]
The elk are on the move here in the White Mountains of Arizona. Yesterday while Miss Terry was stuffing envelopes with the new issue of the Gypsy Journal, I ran some errands and saw a herd of five or six elk in a field just off State Highway 260 in Lakeside. When I pulled back […]
There is news on the RV industry scene. In a press release issued Thursday, Monaco Coach Corporation announced that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Navistar, Inc. in which Navistar will acquire certain assets and assume certain liabilities primarily associated with Monaco’s recreational vehicle manufacturing business. Navistar is a leading global manufacturer […]
Good news may be on the horizon for Hitchhiker fifth wheel fans. The word on the Nu Wa Owners forum on the internet is that the company is going to make a comeback. In a post yesterday on the forum, the company’s CEO, Mike Mitchell, said they have developed a new business model and will […]
I’m not one to forward much of the stuff I get by e-mail, because most of it is spam and junk. However, I did receive something yesterday I want to share with you and encourage you to participate in. All American Direct, which provides distant networks broadcast to Dish television customers, is circulating a petition […]