Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving Day: and we have SO MUCH to be thankful for!! The house closed on monday!! Yippe, hooray and huzzaaah!! We have no idea what is coming next, but we're open for it all. We ordered our internet satellite dish from Datastorm, so we will soon be able to go on the road knowing that we will have an internet connection anywhere. We will even be able to just pull off into a rest area, raise the dish, and be on the web! We are still also committed to spreading the seeds of wireless internet in RV parks. Coach Connect is the company who installed the wireless in our current park and it has been working GREAT! We are developing a relationship with Coach Connect to sell and support their services. Looks good. I really want to add photos to this blog and be like Tioga and George!! But, it doesn't seem to be an option ... they are doing away with the 'blogspot plus' where you paid to have the extra feature of uploading photos because that is going to become a free feature ... BUT, it's not in the feature set yet, and, meanwhile you can't sign up for blogspot plus anymore. A real 'catch-22'.

Just in case you'd like to see the house that we left ... It was a great place to live for almost 10 years. We had lots of gatherings there ... But, 10 years is enough and we're ready for a new adventure in our COOL motorhome. We will miss the hot tub tho .. we will be partial to RV parks with jacuzzis since we had such a nice one at the house.

I went diving this morning while Chris put this together. Kind of choppy, only got one bug. This is great, Chris. I love you. note from Chris: Yes, I love you too! And, I think this deserves a photo so folks can see how you go kayak diving ...

Thanksgiving day: This seems a perfect time to start our new blog "Odie's Roadies" because we are so overwhelmingly thankful for our wonderful lives. We made a life decision in May of this year to sell our house, buy an RV and live on the road. We would make a living by setting up wireless internet in RV parks and performing other computer services. Well, the house closed on Monday of this week, we've been living in the RV in a Park in Fort Lauderdale for the last few months, and we're ready to take off!

RV Lessons

Well, it had to happen sometime, and I guess this is as good a time as any. We're having some problems with the RV. The air conditioning just stopped last Thursday. We had it looked at and determined that the problem was electrical. When we took off the cover for the breaker panel you could clearly see burnt wires ... NOT a good sign! We determined to take it to Fort Lauderdale RV Sales and Service first thing Monday morning. We have a couple other things that need to be done as well - install the Bilstein shocks, service the generator, and find a small water leak. They told us they would 'get right on it' since the RV is our home, but it still might take a couple days (and who knows how much money). So, thank goodness the house hasn't sold yet! We do have an 'almost-signed' contract on it though .. yeah! We grabbed all the computer stuff, a few clothes, all the food from the fridge, and moved back into the house for what we hope is just a couple days. The problem apparently has to do with plugging in the RV to power that wasn't sufficient. I'll see if I can get Jim to write the details. Bottom line, Jim ran right out and bought a little device that will test the line before you plug the RV in. Apparently this is something that every RV owner should have and you should never plug in until you've tested it first. OK - lesson 1 of 2,375!