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Posted 05-25-2009 at 09:54 AM by DriVer (Welcome To My Blog!)
Updated 05-25-2009 at 04:42 PM by DriVer
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According to Jean Cernan, The average cell phone has more technology than the Apollo capsule that flew to the moon and back. Now that said, I wonder if I can view that in comparison to our motorhome.
Paying attention to what's going on outside the front window while scanning the mirrors for what's on your six could be exhausting at the end of the day for a lot of drivers.
Now add a technology layer to driving and it isn't all that uncommon to have most or more of the...
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Posted 05-24-2009 at 07:12 PM by DriVer (Welcome To My Blog!)
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Our motorhome is sitting out on the pad here at our home in Conway, SC and we are making preparations to get underway to Richmond, VA next weekend to attend the FMCA Great Eastern Area Rally. This will be our second visit to the Richmond International Speedway to support the GEAR and we expect to be in the same parking facility. Quite surprisingly we have a good 30A circuit, water, and a sewer connection on our site.
Last year we didn't bring our 08 Vue because we had basically...
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I am so PISSED! After a really long blog, I hit 'Post Now' and everything disappeared.
This had started out as a quiet, peaceful Sunday. Just to thumb my nose at this computer, I am going to try to write it all again.
Last evening we had multiple thunderstorms pass over. At the end of one, I looked outside and saw an unbelievable sight, something I have never, ever seen before--a complete rainbow. It went from horizon to horizon and was easily one of the most...
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Back from our walk. It has been raining lightly for the last two days, and the desert is beginning to bloom. I found tiny pink flowers, lavender ones, blue ones, yellow ones. I found several of what I call desert dandelions, fleabane, yucca; the prickly pears are blooming with yellow flowers; the Arizona Rainbow Hedgehog is blooming with fuschia flowers, and the saguaro are blooming--they are so tall that it is hard to see the flowers, but I think they are white. I saw an unknown reddish-pinkish...
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Maybe it's because I'm alone so much, or maybe it's because I have a major yakkety-yak gene, or maybe it's because I just want someone to know that I'm still alive and ticking; whatever the reason(s), I love blogging. I can sit at the computer with nothing in particular on my mind and just start doing the stream of consciousness thing and words just seem to flow from my fingers to the computer.
I see that the blogs are viewed, but not commented on. I welcome comments. I welcome...
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...is what you look for. I am a firm believer in that statement. For example, I expect positive responses from friends, acquaintances, businesses, etc., and I nearly always get them.
Case in point: today I called AT&T to try to get help regarding my new air card. I approached the young man who answered with calm, polite expression of the problem. I even laughed at my own foibles. That young man spent nearly an hour on the phone with me, walking me step by step through uninstalling,...
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The past few years have been lean ones for the majority of us. We are facing belt-tightening like never before in most of our lives; but, if anyone is reading my blogs, we do have enough that we are able to afford computers. That says a lot right there. We can afford computers and electricity to run them and a roof to protect them from the elements.
I think that the major reason is that nobody likes to face the fact that, "There but for the grace...". Nobody likes to...
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(I have to break frequently in order to maintain my sanity. Last night I wrote a LONNNNGGGG blog, when, without warning, I lost internet connection.)
Every day when this couple returns to their spot behind the tree, I am brought up short for a number of reasons. One, I, somehow, feel guilty that I have so much, and they have so little. Why do I feel guilty? I have earned everything I have. I started working the week I graduated from high school and continued until retirement...
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,,,blessed, fortunate, lucky, good karma--call it what you will. This has been brought home to me this week--again. I am presently dry-camping in a beautiful spot in northern Arizona, if one can call what I do "camping." My self-contained RV has all the comforts of a stick house, plus the ability to move whenever the mood strikes me.
About 75 yards away is a couple who are apparently living in their car. I don't know any of the circumstances because as an older woman alone,...
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I've heard it said that children and the elderly hate change. This year, I hit the "elderly" category; however, for the most part, I welcome change. Living in an RV and pulling up levelers every couple of weeks or so would not be the life-style of someone who dislikes change.
There are two areas where I don't welcome change. One of those is doctors. The other is TV characters that I've grown to feel comfortable with over the years. When William Petersen and Jorja...
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Posted 05-17-2009 at 05:43 PM by Dutchie
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Wish I had the time to study this blog stuff.
Maybe that way my friends and relatives could follow our travel.
But we are to busy travelling !!!
lololol
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The barometric pressure must be falling because I am really irritable today and GG is really irritating. She can't seem to settle, but at the same time, she refuses to go out for a bit.
Back to nature. Last spring, I saw for the first time, a mama killdeer nesting in a small depression in the gravel of an RV park. I was able to get some good pictures of both mama and papa and eggs. Didn't get their antics on film, though, and that would have been a keeper. As I was there only overnight,...
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It happened again...I wrote a couple of paragraphs, then, poof!, it's gone into cyberspace. Good thing my verbosity gene is stonger than my pissed gene.
I was just stream of conscious-ing, anyway.
Monday evening on our walk, GG and I startled a mourning dove from her nest. In it were two white eggs, so, as I had inadvertently left without my camera, I made a mental note to take it on Tuesday's walk so that I could get pictures. The nest is on the tongue of a 5th wheel...
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A dear friend of many years seems to have lost control of her life, and I want so much to help and feel so helpless. I've been where she is, and I know how helpless she feels. At some point, I decided to take control of my life and do what was needed to maintain my mental and physical health. It was a scary time of change and newness and cutting ties. I still have feelings of guilt from time to time, and sometimes wonder if I'm doing the right thing with my life, at least from the point of view...
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I was reading the forum and someone said they did not realize they had a blog neither did I .
So here goes my first "blog". I don't know who is going to read this.
My husband and I are what I call "Half timers" six months out and six months at the house. I said house rather than home because I consider the RV home. I found that when you are at a park the amount of activities are plentiful. The parks do that to make it appealing, which works for us. However,...
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