Freightliners Chassis Owners' Rally

I forgot to post some of our pictures from doing the Freightliner Chassis Owners' Rally in Tucson last week. We were just there for a day - kind of a whirlwind. They asked us quite a while ago if we would do a couple seminars, and since it was in Tucson - less than 2 hours away, we figured 'Why not?' It was at the same facility (Beaudry Resort) that our Datastorm rally was held, so we were already familiar. And ... they used the same caterer who makes delicious food. We had to stay for dinner! We have a very compact and simple display now for selling our CDs and DVDs of video tutorials. And, we were in good company! Here is Mac the Fireguy, and Rick from RV Safety Education Rick weighed our rig while we were there and we were thrilled to learn that we had not gained any weight since the last time we were weighed a couple years ago. Ok, that's the good news. The bad news is that we were overweight a couple years ago! But, not by much. We are going to do some house cleaning in the next couple weeks. We just bought 3 new tires, and had an oil change and service. We're ready to hit the road real soon now.

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Old Geeks

Even though the word 'Geek' originated as a somewhat derogatory term, meaning something like 'clumsy, socially inept, bookworm.' We have come to adopt the term with pride in it's meaning of being adept with technology. In the world of RVers, we 'Geeks' are relatively rare, so it is easy to be accepted in this role. But, every once in a while something happens to put us in our place. We recently bought new cell phones that can take pictures, take videos, send email, browse the web, navigate using GPS, and oh yeah ... they can actually make phone calls too. We used these 'phones' to take a video about the phones and posted the video on youtube. Just to make sure we don't get too cocky about our technological status ... someone left a comment on our youtube video ...

"You're too old to have this phone...duh lmao"

Hah! In case you're not familiar with 'lmao' - that means, 'Laughing My Ass Off" Actually, after reading it, I was ROTFL (Rolling On The Floor Laughing)

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A Last Post?

I need to say goodbye to Ron Morrison. He was a regular at Thousand Trails, Peace River - where we spent the winter last year. I received a couple of emails this week telling me he passed away. It was a shock, since I regularly read his blog , and there had been no mention of illness. No one seems to know exactly what happened, he was taken to the hospital on Saturday night and he was gone by Sunday. Ron was a character. I liked him. He always had a smile for us. He lived in an old blue bus that he operated on vegetable oil.

He didn't have much, but he didn't complain. This year he even got a job as a school bus driver in the town near the park. He was a star computer student. Already a good photographer, he created several PhotoStory slide shows after taking our class. He even told us that he got a couple paid gigs making slide shows for Weddings and other special events. And, of course, we taught him how to blog and he wrote regularly from February, 2007 to February 15, 2008.

And, my favorite personality trait ... he could laugh at himself. He writes in his blog that he bought these green velvet shorts with bells on them to play pickleball - in hopes that they would distract the opponents and he could win a game!

I keep looking at his blog expecting to see another post. It's weird. It makes me think that everyone who blogs should have a designated person who knows your username and password in case a Last Post needs to be made. Maybe it should become a standard clause in our Last Will and Testaments? Designate the person you want to write it, and specify the username and password? Even if I knew his username and password, I wouldn't feel right. I'm not family, and I didn't even know him very well. I guess I could put a comment on his last entry and link people to here.

Goodbye Ron! You touched our lives.

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Rally in Tucson

Whew! We made it. It has been a whirlwind the last few days. We drove from Quartzsite to Casa Grande on Sunday. It took us twice as long as it should due to a flat tire which, of course, happened at the most desolate part of the route. Actually that's hard to say since the entire route is pretty desolate. So, we got in after dark, something we usually avoid. So much for the stuff we planned to get done on Sunday afternoon. Then Jim's phone died. He spent Monday morning at the Verizon store trying to get it fixed but finally was told that they had to get a new one shipped in and that would take a few days. hmmm, this is hard. One constant in our RV lifestyle is our cell phones. They are with us at all times. We had our Vista seminar on Monday afternoon at Palm Creek. We had a good turnout and the class went well. Then we had to get on the road after class - 6pm - to head to Tucson where we were scheduled to give our seminars at a Freightliner Chassis rally. I don't think I studied the calendar very well when I booked this one! Another after-dark arrival! Thank goodness for GPS navigation - we made the turns that the computer told us to and came right here. We did actually get here and managed to have it all together to give two seminars and met some nice people. We'll head back to Casa Grande in the morning after getting our rig weighed. I have a few photos, but haven't had a chance to look a them. Just thought I'd post something here when I had the chance ... I'm posting this at 1am. I think I'll go to bed now.

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Quartzsite stopover

Quartzsite is the perfect halfway point between Pomona and Casa Grande. This will be the last time we get to see Lynne and John for while also since we'll be heading to Florida soon, and they're on their way to the northwest. Our favorite walk in the desert is here. We go up a hill to the flag. The spring flowers are starting to come out. Party time. As Lynne always say, "SEE YA" more photos on the web album ... just click on any photo here and you're at the web album and can scroll around.

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