Daily Archives: September 29, 2009
Gypsy Rally – Day 2
Today was our first full day of the rally seminars.
We started off with coffee and donuts at 8:30, while also checking out the vendor wares on sale.
Jan got some microfiber cleaning products and I picked up a book on the history of RV’s. It’s hard to believe RVs have been around for over 100 years.
At 9 am Jan and I split up and went to separate classes. She went to a “Cooking On The Road” seminar and I went to one on “Electrical Management Systems”
Then at 10:30 am, I went to a class on Blogging for the RV’er and Jan went to one “RV’ing Alaska”. I guess she wanted to be sure that we didn’t miss anything last year.
Lunch was from 12:00 to 1:30, so we went back to the China Wok Buffet again, knowing it would be quick, because we wanted to run by Walmart to pick up some stuff.
At 1:30 pm I had a class on “Managing Digital Photos with Picasa”. Picasa Photo Editing Software is a free program from Google that will find, sort, and manage all the photos on your computer. They recently came out with a new version and I thought this class would be a good way to catch up on the changes.
At same time, Jan went to a class given by Gypsy Journal’s Nick Russell called “Highway History and Back Road Mystery”. Jan has taken this class before, but says there’s always something new.
At 3:30 we both attended a seminar talking about ‘Hosting in State Parks”. We both learned a lot about being a volunteer campground host.
When the class was over, we went to our new favorite Mexican place (in Ohio, anyway) La Carreta. As before, Jan had the Beef and Bean Nachos and I had another bowl of the Chicken Tortilla Soup.
At 7 we were back for the door prize giveaway. I won a T-shirt and Jan won a bottle of energy drink. Wahooo!
About 7:45 we went to a talk of “100 Years of RVing”. There was some really great pictures of RVs from the very early 1900’s. Neat!
Tomorrow is another day…
