Maintenance Focus

Late April The maintenance needs for “RV Where Yet” are coming into focus.  Basically, everything works.  So we are mainly making decisions about pre-emptive (proactive) maintenance vs. fixing things that break when they break.  Helping us to make these decisions are the following parameters: If it is a safety issue,  we fix it now.  For

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Storage?

22 April Spent some considerable effort looking for storage in the Chicagoland area.  It is ILLEGAL to park such a vehicle in a residential neighborhood,  even if one were fortunate enough to find a space (well,  actually,  4 contiguous spaces!).  TO solve this problem,  we again turned to our circle of friends and sympathizers.  Our

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Quality Time Spent…

17 April We spent some quality time with “RV Where Yet” and the mechanic yesterday.  One of the treats of the day was to START THE ENGINE .  I don’t want to say it “purred” because diesel bus engines don’t purr.  But it runs.  Great.   In fact,  virtually everything works. And we spent some more

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Naming Contest

16 April — Naming Contest! The RV came to us named: “Charlie’s Angel.”  This presented us with a dilemma.  EITHER I could change my name to “Charlie” or the Bus needs a new name.    Actually,  THAT decision was simple.  I already have an angel.  So the bus gets a new name. We opened this

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Cozumel, 2015

As has become traditional,  we book a “Last Minute Deal” to a warm place for our anniversary.  This year,  the destination was Cozumel, Mexico.    While in Cozumel,  we spent a lot of quality beach time.  We also did more than a little diving.  Most of the reefs and dive spots were very close to

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How Work ruins Vacations

As we took our first “Retired” trip, a very interesting transformation occurred. We really did not understand BEFORE retirement how the prospect of returning to work affects one’s vacation “mentality.”  At least for me,  it used to take a couple days to get into vacation mode.  Then the last 3 days or so were spent

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South-by-Southeast

This was our first “Retired” Road trip. We left Chicago on 25 January, headed South-by-southeast. Plans were to stop in Atlanta, to visit Liz’s Brother and family. Then continue on to Bradenton, FLA, where some friends had a condo rented for a week. The above was a loose guideline, only. We considered this trip to

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Washington D.C.

We visited Washington D.C. to help my Great-Aunt Marilee move. This was a somewhat “forced” situation as her Retirement Community was closing for construction. Management offered to pickup all the costs for her move to another of their buildings, where they prepared a similar combination of two units. Inasmuch as Marilee is 102 years young,

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Our First Visit

8 April .. Our first visit to “the Bus.” This was an EXCELLENT DAY on the RV front.   We  drove down to St. Louis to take a look at  the offered RV.   Many thanks to brother-in-law Paul Kokkin for coming along to provide another set of objective, mechanically-inclined eyes. It is a 1981 Bluebird Wanderlodge

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