Author: sandcastle

Today is the biggest shopping day of the year for many people. Not so much us fulltime RVers. Most of us have neither room nor desire for more stuff. But even then we sometimes get tempted.

As one guy said in response to a friend’s blog, “But this year, the desire for a $200 HP laptop from Best Buy nearly snared me. Then the word was that I needed to acquire a ticket for it at 3 AM, in order to buy it at 5 AM.”

I wonder how many RVs overnighted at Best Buy so they didn’t have far to go this morning? Get up to get your ticket at 3 AM then go back to bed until time to buy. Wear a sweat suit to bed so you don’t even have to get dressed in between. It seems to me this would be the way to do it.

If I was going to do it at all, that is.

TTYL,

Linda

This is the time of year when people on our internet discussion groups start asking about holiday plans.  A woman with an RV the same size as ours wanted to know how we could possibly prepare an entire Thanksgiving feast in it since she’d like to do that for her family.  So here’s my plan:

View-sized Thanksgiving feast:

Louis Rich Turkey Breast–just slice and serve
Stove Top Stuffing–uses one stove burner
Gravy from a jar–uses second stove burner
1 can sweet potatoes and 1 can crushed pineapple–mix together and heat on third stove burner
Cranberry sauce–chill & serve
Carrot & celery sticks
Deviled eggs–made in advance & chilled
Green Bean casserole made in oven
Tea Biscuits–dinner rolls you don’t have to heat
Buy the pumpkin pie ready made–our effort to make one in the convection oven was a complete failure.

Adjust above to meet family’s taste.

Another guy on that same list started drooling and wanted to know where we’re parked so he could come eat with us.  He was disappointed to learn I don’t plan to make that feast.  This park is offering Thanksgiving dinner for $2 at 2:00.  Given that, why would anyone want to cook?

TTYL,

Linda

As a child, Dave was interested in airplanes. As teenagers, we used to go out to the Minneapolis/St Paul airport where Dave could watch the planes take off and land. As a soldier he got to fly helicopters but not fixed-wing aircraft. We no longer go watch planes take off and land but he still likes airplanes.

So, today we visited the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida.

This base is the home of the Blue Angels.

They have a tour trolley Dave did not ride. They have an Imax where Dave did not go see the film. But he spent two hours looking at planes.

I stayed home and did my computer stuff and read my book after assuring him he could take all the time he needed. I think he might have stayed longer if he wasn’t concerned about getting to the post office before it closed to pick up our mail. Thanks, Tom, for recommending we stop here.

TTYL,

Linda

What we like:

What we don’t like:

TTYL,

Linda

If you have a big rig with lots of carrying capacity you can bring great stuff with you. And if you like to park that rig someplace and stay there awhile, you can expand your living space within the confines of your campsite. Our friends, Lee and Mary Jane, have done just that where they are spending the winter this year and we were the lucky beneficiaries of that on our visit to them.

Under their awning they have four chairs with end tables between each set of chairs where we sat to drink the wine we brought with us while we caught up on our adventures since our last meeting. It was nice to be comfortable without having to haul our own chairs to their site.

Inside that screen tent is a picnic table which has become Lee’s woodworking area. When they were at this park two years ago they had a hot tub in that tent but the tub didn’t survive the dry air on its visit to the Arizona desert where we all met last January. RVing can be hard on people and equipment but this site in the Florida panhandle isn’t hard to take at all. Have a good winter, guys!

TTYL,

Linda