Monthly Archives: October 2009
Turkey & Dressing and Key West…maybe
Today started with Turkey & Dressing at the nearby Cracker Barrel. Jan loves their Turkey & Dressing. She says the dressing is almost as good as hers. Almost! So Thursday is very often Cracker Barrel.
After lunch we drove back over to the Verizon store to get the correct belt holster for my new Storm 2. The one they gave me was for the Storm, and the Storm 2 is slightly smaller so it wouldn’t stay in the holster. A quick swap-out cured the problem.
I also found out they had the problem fixed with transferring my contact list from my old phone to my new one. But since I didn’t bring my old phone with me, I’ll have to come back later.
Getting back to the rig, I pulled out my air hose and gauge to air up one of the coach tires. When I had the new shocks put on a couple of days ago, I also had them bring my tires up to the correct level. But they did not screw the air pressure sensor back on the valve stem all the way so the tire starting leaking down on the way back to the park.
Our coach has a built-in air compressor that operate the air brakes and the air bag suspension system. There is also a connector that lets me tap into the system and, by starting the engine, I can air up my tires.
Coming back in, I found Jan napping so I decided to head back down to Verizon to get my contact list transferred to my new phone. Then coming home I stopped off and got gas in the toad.
About 5 pm Nick came over to tell us he was waiting to hear from Al Hesselbart about getting together for dinner. Al is an RV author / historian we had met at the Gypsy Rally in Celina, OH a month ago. He lives here in Elkhart, and is a good friend of Nick and Terry’s.
We ended up meeting him at North Garden Chinese Buffet at 5:30 and had a great time listening to Al tell some great stories about the RV industry.
Tomorrow we take a road trip about 130 miles south to Decatur, IN to see where our coach ‘Beauty’ was born. The American Coach factory is there and they give tours. Then coming home we’ll stop off in Auburn, IN to visit the Auburn – Cord – Dusenberg museum.
When we get back tomorrow night, we don’t know if Nick and Terry will still be here. Nick is thinking about heading south tomorrow if the weather holds. He wants to be in Key West within the next two weeks.
We’ll see…
Culver’s and Storm 2…
This morning I went over to Nick’s to help him get his new Acer Netbook set up for his VMSpc computer/engine interface.
After a few minutes, Nick’s new toy was humming along and working great.
About 12:30 we all headed out for lunch at Culver’s, a chain restaurant we hadn’t tried before. It’s kind of a cross between a Dairy Queen, a McDonald’s, and a Denny’s. It’s counter service, but besides ice cream and hamburgers, they also dinners like fried chicken, pot roast, and sandwiches. It was good and we’ll go back.
Coming home we found a new neighbor a few sites over from us who are also full-timing. They’re from up in Michigan, but are heading down to Florida, then down to the Texas Rio Grande Valley, and then on to Yuma, AZ for the rest of the winter. We hope to see them at the Gypsy Rally in Yuma in March.
Later, Jan and I headed out to a local Verizon store so I could upgrade my Palm Treo to a new Blackberry Storm 2. I’ve been waiting for the new Storm 2 to come out since my Palm was on its last legs.
After getting my upgrade I dropped Jan off at Walmart to get her hair cut. while I ran an errand.
Coming back to the rig about 5:30 pm we decide to stay in for the evening.
More tomorrow…
