We're All In

Good morning,

So finally, after four months of hyper activity and many years of dreaming we're actually full time RV'ers.

When I say we're "All In," we really are. We're "All In" the RV, but we're "All In" physically as well. Trying to reduce our home to what we wanted in the RV and a 10' x 10' locker was a huge job all by itself. It's amazing how much stuff we had accumulated and how hard it is to find new homes for it. The MCC got a few loads, we sold some, the kids took some, and the trash can got quite a bit. I figure the kids owe us, we did a whole bunch of work they were going to have to do in a 20 or 30 years.

Sons, Brady and Rob, came over with Brady's truck and trailer to spend a few hours moving the big and heavy things for us which really, really, helped. Thanks guys.

We're staying in a small, but nice and clean, place just outside of Winnipeg called The Arrowhead RV Park www.arrowheadrvpark.ca .

There are still a multitude of things to get done before we head for Texas in October. All the little things like computer access, telephones, banking, mail, and on and on and on. We also have to get the truck finished, find a Smart car, sell our existing car, and win the lotto to pay for it all. No Problem.

We're thinking we'll drive to Texas via the South Dakota Badlands. Bernie and I have never been there, we'd like to see them, and of course we have to make a trip to Mount Rushmore at some time. This will be the first time we make the Texas trip without any kind of schedule. No schedule, ???????? I'm thinking I'll like it but after 40 years of meetings, appointments, and schedules who knows. I'll likely create some kind of a schedule before we get started and then PANIC if we get a day behind. Why change now?

We have reservations for a few days at Falcon Beach early next month. Colleen and her family are coming in from Langley to spend a week out there at John and Leslie's cabin. We made a reservation at the local campground but we're afraid the lots are too small and we won't fit. So we decided to take a day trip to the lake today to check it out. Once I see it we'll determine if we move the RV or stay here and commute for the week. It's an hour each way. Not bad, kind of like driving to work in Vancouver. To our friends on the West Coast, I think of you often, especially your commutes. :-)

Then it will be time to get to work on building the bed for the truck. There is a 50/50 chance we're going to get the motorcycle on there with the Smart car. It really is down to a matter of 2 or 3 inches and we won't know until the bed builder gets to work on it. I have the plan all laid out and it boils down to the build. He has to be able to make it strong, and I want it heavy, so there is no way it (bed and car) can come loose and move forward in the event we have an unexpected stop. That could sort of spoil our plans.

It would be pretty neat to have both of them up there and we could have some good fun with the bike. I really want to ride in the hills of San Francisco, and at some point I want to ride through Manhattan and Central Park. Riding those two spots is on my bucket list and it must be done. No I don't have brain damage, it just looks like it. Driving them in a Smart car just wouldn't be the same.

So that's it for now, I have to go and schedule :-) our trip to Falcon Beach.

Thanks for reading our blog and do leave a comment when you can.

Neal & Bernie