Driveway Camping

We're on our way to the FMCA rally in Perry, Georgia and my Dad's house is conveniently located in Northern Florida. Driveway camping is such a great way to visit. Just bring your own house and become neighbors for a couple days! Too bad our awnings aren't out in that picture so you can see our pretty new blue (untorn) awnings. Our awning sales and repair friends, Darrell and Nancy of Carefree Colorado, were staying right near us down in Wauchula - so we took advantage and got our old, faded, torn awnings replaced. Oh Boy could use some body work and a new paint job, but a new 'dress' sure helps brighten it up!

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Will you pay for Wi-Fi?

My weekly article for the RV.net blog this week asked the question, 'Will you pay for Wi-Fi?" It's getting a lot of responses and makes for some interesting reading. I thought I'd tell you about it in case you'd like to add your 2 cents! I wonder what it was like being around when radio was first invented. Did they try to charge for that? I'll bet they wanted to, but there was simply no way to extract a fee for something that traveled thru the air. Well, now there is. Many people think Wi-Fi should be included as a free amenity at RV parks ... like the pool. Others think it's more fair to charge for useage ... like the laundry machines. Since we worked in the Wi-Fi industry for a while, we know the effort and expense that goes into a good Wi-Fi system. There's got to be money in it *somewhere*! In any case, it's interesting watching a new-born industry develop.

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Torrey Oaks

We moved up the road just a couple miles from Peace River. This is the same park where we gave a Picasa seminar last month. They asked us to come back.

Jim did our Internet seminar without me yesterday so I could concentrate on more video production. Today was Google Earth, and it really needs both of us. Gorgeous day! Nice park.

From Geeks on Tour March 2009

Ooohhhh ... Aaaaaahhhh Full moon (or almost)

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On Our Way

There's a double meaning to my title today - 'On our Way.'

We are back on the road - we left Fort Lauderdale day before yesterday and are now at our favorite park, Thousand Trails, Peace River. Tomorrow we move on to Torrey Oaks to give a couple seminars. Then a stop at my Dad's on the way to Georgia.

We also feel that our baby business, Geeks on Tour, is on it's way to becoming a real, money-making business. We have a respectable schedule of RV rallies on our 'Tour' this summer. Starting next week with our favorite, FMCA International Convention, in Perry, Georgia. Of course, we have to put our money where our mouth is and pay all our own development costs and expenses to get to these rallies, and sometimes also to attend. We'll be dipping further into our savings than I ever thought we would. It is scary, but the most worthwhile things usually are and I know we're not alone in this predicament today.

Here's what we're booked for right now - the first four are large rallies of 1,000 to 3,000 rigs each. It's going to be an awesome summer!

1. March FMCA Convention in Perry Georgia
2. April The Rally in Albuquerque, NM
3. May Escapades in Sedalia, Missouri **June Pirates rally at 'The Church' in Gravity, Iowa** (that's a whole other story!:-)
4. July another FMCA International in Ohio
5. September Gypsy Journal in Ohio

Do you believe in miracles? Unbelievable ... as I was writing this blog post, I got a phone call. By the time I finished the call, we were booked for another RV event ... a very special one that I heard about from Nick Russell of the Gypsy Journal. It's the RV Lifestyle, Safety and Education Clinic September 13 - 16, 2009 at the Wildwood Conference Center at Harrisburg Area Community College in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. And they've booked us to do several of our seminars there! Thanks Nick for putting in a good word for us. And, thanx for your recent blog post too. So, add a #6 to the list above: RVSEF clinic in September.

You won't see much on the blog from me this week because I need every single minute (and then some) to finish preparations for the FMCA rally. I'm still recording some of the tutorial videos that go on the disks we need to produce and sell and put on our website! I've always said, "If it weren't for the last minute I never would get anything done." I even decided to put a little bit of live video on the disks as an introduction. All the other videos are of the computer screen and my voice explaining the computer screen. People who know Geeks on Tour strictly from our tutorial videos have never seen my face, or met Jim. So, we set up a little recording studio; How do you like our teleprompters?!

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Geeks on Tour - a new level

In an RV park in Central Florida, a dozen or so people gathered together to learn something about their computers. This is the park's Computer Club, they meet once or twice a week. One person agrees to give a presentation, complete with handouts and a projected show. This computer club meeting is not that unusual. Lots of RV parks have computer clubs. The special thing about this particular meeting was the topic. People met to learn about the Computer Tutorial Videos available at GeeksOnTour.com! And we had nothing to do with it. One of our members, Roxie Marston, enjoys learning from our tutorials so much that she decided to share it with her club. Here's the blog post from the HTR Computer Club. HTR stands for Holiday Travel Resort. It's hard to express how that makes us feel ... but I can tell you it's a *good* feeling! Thanks Roxie! This reminds me that, one of our earliest students - and now a member; Barb Resnick, started a specific Picasa special interest group in her community's computer club. She says it was attending a Geeks on Tour Picasa seminar at an FMCA convention in 2006 that got her started. Now, I learn from her sometimes. Go Barb! Because of the Internet, we can have a business that we manage from anywhere, and that has customers (members) everywhere. Many of these members are, or become, friends as well. It just gives me chills every time I think about how extraordinary and wonderful that is. We even have members in England and several in Australia! ooooohhh ... RVing around Australia - now that's a goal!

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