It’s been a busy time since I last updated this blog, so I’ll try to catch it up briefly:  We were on our way back to our previous “home” in Central Texas for the holiday in the last post, wrappipng up our first 90 days or so on the road as full time RVers without

It’s time to leave West Virginia and begin to think about getting underdway again.  From here we are heading to the DelMarVa peninsula on the east side of the gorgeous Chesapeake Bay.  My older brother and his wife retired to this area some time ago.  Sadly, he is deceased but my sister-in-law is still kicking

It’s an interesting perspective for me to actually have an open ended time line.  For 50 years I’ve had industrial jobs, and my wife has had public service kinds of positions, which always meant a limited amount of time available for family, community activities, hobbies, and travel.  So I’ve tended to force my family to

We’ve now moved on past Labor Day, 2016, so we are starting our first full month being on the road as “full timers”.  It starts to get more interesting as I get further away from working full time.  That part of my life, which was important for 5 decades, now seems to recede a bit

Moving on from our brief stay in Oklahoma City, we headed further north to Iowa, where my dear wife was born and raised.  Happy to say it was an uneventful trip up.  We got to the state park where we had reservations and found that there are different ways to do things than in the

Made it to Ok city and found a great campground near the museum.  We highly recommend Twin Fountains RV Resort in Oklahoma City.  Very well maintained, friendly staff, and nice camp sites.  Only issue we found is an 11 AM checkout time.  Since we arrived around 5 PM that doesn’t leave enough time to see

Blast OFF!!  Ok, so, as usual, I way overestimated what I thought I could get done before we left in two weeks, but I dealt with that, putting off what couldn’t be accomplished, taking a couple of projects with me to work on, and putting the rest into storage for when I get back.  But

Well, the job has finally ended after almost 50 years of doing what I love, engineering and building a variety of products for many different customers and situations.  Now, whatever I do like that will be for my own enjoyment. Right now, I have several projects in mind to improve or update the RV.  We

OK.  Maybe a bit over stated, but I am in my last week of working at a full time job anyway.  It’s hard to believe that I started this career almost 50 years ago, but I left home in August of 1966 for Cedar Rapids IA to start my life as a design engineer for

Never, ever thought it would take this long to sell a property that we dearly loved.  But what we loved didn’t seem to motivate buyers as much as us when we bought it.  The good news is that it FINALLY closed.  There were several last minute delays because all of the paperwork wasn’t completed accurately