Daily Archives: October 1, 2009
Gypsy Rally – Day 4
Today was the last full day of the Eastern Gypsy Rally here in Celina, OH.
We do have a short coffee and donuts get-together tomorrow morning from 7:30 to 9 am and then it’s over. A number of people have already left, especially some of the vendors who have another rally to get to this weekend.
After our coffee and donuts, Jan and I split up for the first class.
Hers was a Women Only Roundtable. Personally I think it’s just an excuse for the wives to sit around and bitch about their husbands.
My class was on “RV Travel & Camping Tips”. It was given by Joe & Vicki Kieva, a couple that we’ve taken classes at the 3 rallys we’ve attended previously. But this was probably the last time. They announced that they’re giving up teaching at rallys to just travel full time, like the rest of us.
Next, Jan had a class on ‘What Every RV’ing Woman Should Know’. Again, I think it’s just an excuse for the wives to sit around and bitch about their husbands. My class was on ‘Blogging: Beyond the Basics’, an advanced class from the one on Tuesday.
Here’s a picture of our Blogging class.
For lunch, Jan and I went back to La Carreta, a local Mexican restaurant that we’ve eaten at twice before. They have the best Chicken Tortilla Soup I’ve had since Monterey’s in Dickinson, TX.
After lunch Jan and I both sat in on a class about ‘Optimizing Your RV Storage Space”. I would imagine we’ll try to implement some of their ideas.
For our last class of the rally, Jan went to one on “Volunteering At National Wildlife Refuges” and mine was “Picasa” Beyond the Basics, another follow-up to a beginning class on Tuesday.
After this last class, we went to dinner at Casey Jones, a buffet restaurant that we’d heard good things about. And the ‘things’ were right. It was really good.
At 7 pm we were back at the rally for another round of door prize drawings. This time I won a nice shoe shine kit.
After the drawings, One More Time performed again. And once again, they were really good. They’re going to be performing in the Texas Rio Grande Valley this winter.
By 9 pm we were back in the rig for the night, and starting to get ready to head out tomorrow morning.
We’re going to travel about 160 miles to Elkhart, IN for about 3 weeks. We have been on the road pretty continuously since March 1st. The longest we’ve stayed in one place was 11 days at Walt Disney World and about 10 days in the New York City area. But these weren’t really rest periods, as we were on the go all day, every day.
We’ll be staying at Elkhart Campground, a place that it’s said, that if you stay there long enough, every RV’er in the US will come thru. So I guess it’s our turn.
More tomorrow…
