Monthly Archives: June 2017
Ya’ll Don’t Understand Me . . .
About !:30pm Jan and I headed up to Huntsville about 15 miles north of here. We were going to meet up with Tom and Lynn Conner, long-time friends since 1979 when we lived on the same street for a number of years and our daughter’s were best friends.
And later our son Chris worked for Tom in his motorcycle businesses.
Regular readers will remember months back that I asked readers for things they’d like to see in an RV Park, for a friend that was building one. And that was for Tom.
Well, the project is starting to come together up in Crabbs Prairie, a small community just north of Huntsville,
The first part, 25 RV-sized storage units is just about ready to go in the next week or so.
At the same time they’re starting the layout and grading for about 30 50amFHU sites, both pull-thrus and back-ins, many of them around the small lake.
The park is located just over a mile off I-45 on a good paved road with easy access, a really nice layout.
I’ll keep you updated as things progress.
I got a lot of emails and blog comments wondering why we’re traveling around in an RV that I’m constantly working on.
Ya’ll just don’t understand me.
First off, remember that I’m cheap. Our rig is 18 years old (old enough to vote) and our Dodge Dakota is 13. And both are paid for. And I know both of them from top to bottom, and side to side. And I can, and have fixed pretty much anything on the rig, or even the truck
So we can keep RV’ing and not spend half our time waiting for an RV repair place to fix our rig. And honestly, based on what I read on FB and other places, newer rigs spend a lot of time in the shop, waiting for parts, or waiting for the repair.
But here’s the part you probably really don’t understand.
I really enjoy fixing things, anything at all. Whether it’s computers, electronics, cars, RV’s,etc. It’s the challenge that interests me. It’s a puzzle that I want to solve.
So if I’m not working on our rig, I’m working on Nick’s. Or someone else’s.
What can I say. It’s just me.
Tomorrow we move over to the Colorado River Thousand Trails in Columbus for two weeks. ramping up to our big family reunion.
Thought for the Day:
Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.
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One Upping Ree Drummond . . .
Our Huntsville trip got put off until tomorrow so it was another nice day around the rig for Jan and I.
So I decided to get out my Karcher Pressure Washer and clean the road grime off our Dodge Dakota truck. And of course I picked one of the hottest days of the year so far to do this.
But Awesome and the pressure washer make pretty quick work of the job. I then used wheel cleaner and tire black to finish it up.
Looks pretty good for a 13 year truck with almost 260,000 miles on it, plus another 80,000 miles chasing the rig around the country.
Looking back over our RV Park stays during the last 3+ months, I figured we saved over $1200 dollars by using our Passport America membership.
Not bad for $44 a year.
Jan and I have been talking about our next trip, probably in the next few weeks. We’ll probably travel over to Gulf Shore where we’ll stay for a couple of weeks this time, but not at the Gulf State Park again. They’ve gotten just too expensive.
Our favorite sites on the canal are $299 per week, or a standard site is $249. But buried in the fine print is the fact that in addition to the 11% lodging tax (why? I’m bringing my lodging with me.) there’s also a 15% resort fee. So that $299 a week becomes $376 a week, and even the $249 becomes $314 a week.
But we can stay at the Island Retreat RV Park right off the Gulf Shores Pkwy on the Fort Morgan Road for $211 per week, all taxes included. Or we can stay at the Luxury RV Resort just a quarter of a mile from beach for only $216 a week, also all taxes included. Decisions, decisions.
Then after Gulf Shores, we’ll head up to Athens to visit my relatives, probably with a stopover in Montgomery and Birmingham to visit old friends.
Based on Ree Drummond’s Seven Can Soup Recipe, Jan did her version today, but one upping Ree with another can of beans, and also adding some seashell pasta. And rather than use regular meat-only chili, Jan used a couple of the small cans of Skyline Chili, from our time in the Cincinnati area. And of course, Jan added a lot of heat to spice it up.
And as expected, it turned out to be delicious, with the distinctly different note of flavor from the Skyline Chili. Really good.
Thought for the Day:
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.” – John Steinbeck
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