January Family Visit

This is the longest stretch between blog posts in a while. Let me catch up. We went to Fort Lauderdale for a visit. Gotta have a picture of the baby at least once a month right? Let's see, he was born last July ... so he's 6 months old now. What a cute little guy! Here's 4 generations of Guld men. There's James 1 (seated), James 2 (standing at the right), Devon (standing at left) and August James (on top!). And here's Mom (Lacie) and Dad (Devon) with their happy baby. We stayed at Mom's house. Odie must know that Mom's more accustomed to cats than dogs. Don't ya think he looks cat-like laying on top of the back of the couch? We also had a nice dinner with friends, and were happy to get a dentist appointment in too. Then back to Peace River and a waiting Datastorm install. We were also so happy to have a visit from Bill and Susan. We've run into Bill and Susan on the road 4 times now. Two in Utah, once in Big Bend, Texas, and now here. It's a great example of how friendships can develop thru traveling all over the country, and especially with the help of the DatastormUsers.com map. This is the map where each of us with a satellite dish can have an icon representing where we are at any time. Whenever you follow our link to the map, you can see where we are - and we can see who is nearby. We have met new people this way, as well as keeping up with folks like Bill and Susan. I encourage you to check out their website, and also this wonderful magazine article about their journey!

This must be winter

The thermometer said 44 degrees when we got up this morning. Quite chilly, but also clear and beautiful. I made sure to grab the camera before taking Odie for a walk. You can tell it's cold by the steam rising from the river. Sunbeams thru the trees are always appealing to me, but especially when it's cold out! Have we been watching too manyHarry Potter movies? Nothing wrong with a little magic to warm up the coach!

Fun with Friends

All four of us, Jim, Me, Lynne and John, went to the RV Super Show. We just went to have fun. We weren't working it. We weren't looking to buy a new RV. Of course, we're always interested to check out what's new. And, we were also checking out the suppliers area, wondering if we should have a booth there ourselves someday. But, the main purpose was to have fun. How d'you think we did? The photo above was taken inside an Anderson Mobile Estate. It's a 2-story, 1.6 million dollar tractor/trailer ... used! It was originally built for Will Smith. Will now has a new one that includes a recording studio. You can't just buy one of these ... you can 'buy' a place in line to get one custom-built. Oh yeah ... that's us. Our motorhome made the trip just fine, so nice to know everything still works after so long sitting still. And, after looking at lots of $100,000 to $400,000 motorhomes ... we still like ours the best! That's a successful show.

Goin to the Show

Oh Boy! We're going to roll the wheels of our motorhome today. We've been parked since the first week of November ... the tires are getting square on the bottom! I've also missed that feeling of 'rebooting your life' that comes when you pull the plug and turn on the ignition key. We want to check out the 2007 Florida RV Supershow. We've never been before, and we feel like we're the only ones. It's supposed to be huge. We're also interested in looking at it from the point of view of maybe having a booth next year. Originally, we thought we'd just drive the car up and visit for the day. But, with Lynne and John staying in an RV park nearby, we decided to get a space there and take the motorhome for a couple nights. OK, gotta get busy cleaning and stowing!

Nothing Special to Report

It's been a quiet work-week at Peace River. I haven't had much to say ... obviously :-) Jim did his help-desk work each day. We presented 2 seminars this week - Photostory 3 on Thursday, and Google Earth today. We set up movie night on Thursday and showed 'Starman', one of my favorites. I worked on some more tutorial videos. And I made a new video to be an introduction to our website, Geeksontour.com. I used Photostory 3 to create it, inspired by our seminar! I've always known that the best way to really learn something is to teach it. Check it out. There's a few more changes I want to make, but you'll get the idea - whaddaya think? Photostory really is fun.