Travel Day

Travel Day 

Sunday February 4, 2024

We had put almost everything away last night, and our main slide we put in yesterday. We got up and got breakfast and coffee and finished packing up. Saying goodbye to our small site in Southern Palms Eustis, Florida.

 Left about 10 in the morning. 

It was a lovely short travel day. I even listen to Corinne, while we drove.

This picture you can see the Mile long line to enter TTO. We were #34, not bad.

 I wanted a site that was near the cabins since Thomas, Kerri and Sarah will be here on the 9th.

 I wanted to be in sort of busy area where a lot of people could see the for sale sign on the truck. 

Jim was bringing the golf cart out and a lot of people went by that we knew saying hello, welcome back etc. 

So nice to be back here.

We got situated had lunch. Jim took the golf cart for a ride alone.

 I forgot what I was doing, probably just wanted a few minutes alone, but he was sending me pictures saying he saw HDT YouTubers here. We never met them before.

I was so mad I didn't go.

 It was Watts on Wheels, they also have everything named, the truck is Leroy, smart is Skippy, they also travel with two Can-Am motorbikes. 

Jim also saw Switch Crew. I went for a walk when he got home and saw her walking. It was Cool we both had our RV Revolution shirts on. 

 Her name is Dina a recent new full-timer. I invited her up to do walk fit with us. They are going to there first Huddle in South Carolina.

 Once we got situated Jeanna and Lynn are here. So I texted her, if they wanted to get together this week since it's so busy and I wouldn't have to cook tonight, 

let's go out to eat tonight. 

We jumped in their Jeep and went over to Chili's, had a wonderful dinner and couple drinks. Took leftovers home.

My first introduction to Sangria.

They brought us home, and came in for a little visit. We chatted and I showed her some of our curtains that we did upstairs as she's wanting to redecorate her motorhome too.

 I also gave her some Museum putty, and some of the rubber backed shelf liner, to set things on so they don't move during travel days. 

After they left, we just relax the rest of the evening. 

What a great travel day.

FOR SALE

FOR SALE 

Saturday February 3, 2024

After a relaxing Saturday morning drinking coffee and had breakfast. Jim finally went out to the truck and started to put things away for travel day tomorrow,  leaving Southern Palms to Thousand Trails Orlando, AKA TTO.

Yes, we have our 2011, F450 is 

FOR SALE. 

As we were drinking coffee I wanted to find the floor plan of Dennis and Linda's new fifth wheel. 

This is what I found. It really is a nice layout for them.

Neil and Nancy stopped on the way home from doing errands. As Jim was putting the golf cart away,  Neil helped him push it up the ramps. 

They gave me a ride back to their camper and let us borrow some luggage for our trip to Iowa. 

Said our goodbyes and Neil dropped me back at home.

 Later Jim and I were invited to dinner with Dennis and Linda. 

I took the strawberry pie I made the other day for our dessert.

 We had a lovely meal together in their new RV. 

Then we went to Saturday night dance here at Southern Palms. 

They had a band playing called TC and Sass.  "Dance your SAS off " 2024. 

Got to see Sam and Irene again, Sam is the one that's 83. We did the wobble together. You are killing it Sam. 

Also chatted with their friends that have an HDT Crystal Ball, AKA Kenny and Carla. What a great dance, Jim and I got to dance a lot together. Here's a picture of Kathy and Timmy on the right. With their friends, 

Scott and Pam they have the Newell motor coach,  and the HDT. Here's a picture of the inside.

 Such a beautiful coach for the age. They are very high-end even back then. What a great time we had.

Went home way after 10:00 p.m.. we just walked over and back because the golf cart was put away.

 We were a quarter of the way back home after the dance.   Kenny and Carla with the Crystal Ball wrapped rig, came back after dropping off Sam and Irene and picked us up and dropped us at home. That was extremely nice of them to do. I'm glad it wasn't as cold out as it was last night.

Thursday Flea market and Line Dance

Thursday Flea Market and Line Dance 

Thursday February 1, 2024

It is shocking it is February already.

 This morning after breakfast and getting ready a little earlier this Thursday. Jim and I took the golf cart over across the road to the flea market. Walked around quite a bit. Lovely chatting with people. 

I ended up finding a pair of earrings I liked. My Philosophy is there's always room for earrings, and they always fit.

I wanted strawberries, and bananas,  found some nice broccoli to make more broccoli salad. 

This one stand had really cool candles made to look like drinks. 

I love the two on the right in the wine glass and the rock glass with a whiskey looking drink, would have been perfect for Neil and Nancy. Not sure if they're into that. Plus candles scare me in the RV. 

Bottom was really cool necklaces.

We got home in time to have lunch together and then I walked over across the road again to line dance with everyone. Very small group today. Other activities going on in the big room at the same time.

 Love this cute little coffee bar they have in there. Coffee and water available all the time. While I line danced, Jim went back over to Neil and finished up wiring in the new thermostat. 

It looks great.

I made a strawberries pie later. 

Friday February 2, 2024

Yepp this is all Jim.

This morning I got up and went to walk fit. So excited to finish planning our trip to Iowa for the HDT. I decided to pack a tiny bit, after I got home.

Found this, end made a nice snack box to take.

 After lunch later in the afternoon, Jim and I made a trip into Eustis for some errands. 

We stopped at the post office first and had our deposit ready for the HDT, took it inside to mail to Iowa. I assumed he wanted it made out to him, he never answered when I asked. Once we came out to the truck I had forgotten my phone. Luckily I looked at it right away and he did say, he wanted it addressed to an Investment Group.

Jim said you'll never get it back now, I said, " OH YES I will. "

 I immediately went back in to ask for the envelope back, removed the old check. Wrote a new check and gave it back to them. Phew, that was a close call. Trying to do everything to accommodate them. 

Basically we're looking into Insurance options and changing our domicile to Florida. But mainly we're waiting to know where we have to fly to. 

Then we went over to the lake, had a nice relaxing walk, got a few pictures of the sun reflecting off the water.

 Saw a young guy fishing, we chatted with. 

Beautiful day on the water.

Dennis and Linda had arrived yesterday and they told us to come over when we returned today. 

Once we were situated we took the golf cart on the other side of the road looking for their rig. We didn't immediately see it. 

Then Jim realized he saw their truck, sitting, with a brand new East/West Ahara, fifth wheel number, 380 FL. 

We got a quick tour, when we went around to the back of the RV. The neighbors were out. And all the sites are so close together. We felt awkwardly on top of them. Sort of apologized, and we saw they were from Nova Scotia.

1998 Newell Motorhome 

 He said hi and Jim said how we have good friends from there Kathy and Timmy. They said there are friends. How awesome. They said they were coming over to the fire later on tonight. Small Campground, cuz so are we. 

It was beautiful front living room rear master bath and bedroom, with Center kitchen. 

We couldn't stay very long, as we had tickets for the pork dinner here tonight. 

 We went over around 5:00 and sat with Neil, Nancy and a new couple we met at the flea market today, when she was shopping for something near us. I heard her say my grandkids are coming, my grandkids are coming, I said, so are mine. Her G kids are young. We were both excited.

 We had a lovely chat with them, they're from New York.

 After a really nice dinner, we said goodnight to Neil and Nancy.  We sat with Bruce and Sherri and talked until after dark. 

Then  Kathy and Timmy invited us over to their beautiful Beaver motorhome. 

We stopped and said hi and decided we should go home, and put on warmer clothes, Jim refilled his drink. And I actually made myself a super diluted Cosmo, and brought that along. We grabbed a few chairs and headed over.

 Their friends were there Scott and Pam that we had met earlier. Funny story is they just bought a motorhome. But still have an HDT. Probably going to sell it.. They're giving the motorhome a year before they decide if they want to continue on that route or not. He said it was a little physically challenging doing the fifth wheel now.  The motorhome is easier, but they might switch it up, and go back to the HDT. Yepp I said it SIU, it's a thing NOW.

We had a lovely chat the six of us. It was so much fun, I forgot to get a picture again. 

They had a propane fire going, as it was freezing cold till we finally left at almost 11:00 p.m. what a wonderful night we had talking HDT with them and catching up with Kathy and Timmy.

We arrived home and it was really cold inside 68°. Forgot to put heat pump back on before we left. Need  both AC's on during the day. 

Cranked up the heat and I bundled up in a blanket in my chair. I looked at Jim and said, " well we can't go to sleep now. " We had put the TV on and realized there was some YouTubers we didn't really know. But they had just posted quite a few videos on the HDT Rally that we attended for my birthday in October, in Hutchinson Kansas. That I keep talking about. 

We started watching quite a few of them. They did an aerial view of all the trucks. We got to see our fifth wheel, Switch It Up, Todd and Sheila's former set up.

AKA, Fiona the fifth wheel and Shrek the 2020 Ram 3500. Us in aerial with red mark. There set up, and our 2011 F-450 all FOR SALE now.

Finally got to bed at midnight.

Happy Monday

Happy Monday 

Monday January 29, 2024

looking forward to it....

Monday I was up first, probably working on the blog. Jim got up a little later I started his pierogies and eggs for breakfast and he finished it.

 As I left to go to walk fit. Then came home ever so briefly, and left and walked across the road to line dance with everyone for a couple hours.

When I returned we had lunch together. We called our financial advisor in Pennsylvania. As we are continuing to move forward on our HDT and Smart car quest, that we found in Iowa.

We went for a golf cart ride saw the gator in the pond here. 

We fried a pound of catfish outside for dinner with leftovers for tomorrow.

Talked with Jack, that's behind us, while we did that. Jack and Vicky leave tomorrow. 

We had our dinner of catfish with tartar sause.

 I had made Cole slaw, hush puppies, veggies for me, Mac and cheese, baked beans from HDT Rally I had frozen, all to go with it. I pulled two slices of chocolate chip zucchini cake out, had frozen yogurt with it for Dessert. Relaxed for the rest of the evening.

Now Taco Tuesday 

Tuesday January 30, 2024

As we drank our coffee this morning. We saw Jack packing up to leave. After breakfast, when he was ready to pull forward. Jim went out to say goodbye. He and a few other friends stopped by too. 

They all helped push his golf cart up his ramp. I heard him say, I forgot to charge it. They all chatted for quite awhile. 

When they pulled out,  Jim chatted for a while with Larry, another neighbor guy. 

I eventually had to call him in. He had to send our financial advisor in Pennsylvania something. 

Later we saw Crystal Ball guy Kenny and Gail are here. We stopped and chatted for a bit. He showed us inside truck, etc. 

We asked more questions, and told him our plans of a Volvo HDT in our future. We have been seeing each other alot in our travels.

Love the sign on slide, please remove your shoes.

We had tickets for Taco Tuesday. It was packed. Last season we had choice of beef or chicken. This year was a choice of beef or fish. I don't eat beef, so fish it was. This was Not really my favorite. I made more of a salad, brought my own tortilla chips and shared some avocado with Nancy. I probably threw half a mine away. But Jim loved the beef version. Forgot to get pictures. Had an enjoyable time sitting with our friends.

Later as we finished our ride across the road, we saw a lovely sunset.

Wednesday January 31, 2024

Can't believe it's the last day of January. 

I got ready and went up for walk fit with the ladies here. 

When I returned my dance socks, that I ordered were delivered on our steps.

Now I can line dance easily with my new sneakers on. 

Later we were taking a golf cart ride. We checked on the gator at the little pond on our side first..

He was sunning himself on the bank.

He looks alot larger there. Really had to zoom in. 

Then we stopped to say hi to Neil and Nancy.

They were both in the middle of projects, and Neil was trying to install the new thermostat he bought. 

Right down Jim's alley, so they started working on that together, as Nancy and I chatted. We talked about borrowing some travel bags, when we fly to Iowa to see the HDT. And drive him home.

 Later I walked home to get ready. I had food to put away after we had pre cooked some things and had lunch before we left.

When Jim finished for the day. He said they could finish it tomorrow. He came home in the golf cart, we got ready and we all met for happy hour. 

Again it was packed, we sat with Neil and Nancy, Bruce and Sherri, and another couple of their friends don't remember their names. 

They had wings, nachos, and popcorn available.

Nancy said she was very quiet and didn't chat. Then Sherri introduced me to a couple that live in Cornwall Manor where I used to work. 

They have a beautiful home there. They come for a few weeks in there MH. It was so cool to meet them, had a lovely chat. 

We talked way after dark with everyone. And then we came home Jim and I had dinner together.

Got a great picture of my younger GD, Mia, she looks so much like Travis. Miss them both.

Her Mom made her a hat. I told her she should try again to teach her to crochet. I did awhile ago. She maybe ready now.

Moving Forward

Moving Forward 

Today marks the day my Mother passed 14 years ago.

Saturday January 27, 2024

Today during breakfast and coffee. 

We watched our neighbor in the huge beautiful motorhome, across from us, putting boards under back tires to get out. They sunk in the sand pretty bad. He prepped alot yesterday, but it took him hours to get out.

Jim went out and offered to help, he said not much he could really do, But thanked him.

I listen to NoBS at 10:00 for an hour.

Later they have a band playing for the Saturday dance, here at Southern Palms. It was called Country 44. 

Jim and I went over in the golf cart as it was across the road. We sat with Jack and Vicky, and their friends Sam and Irene. He was a hoot. Had a lot of fun stories, very entertaining. Plus Jack had a big bottle of bourbon he was sharing with everyone, so there's that. 

Some lady came over, and Jim saw the whole thing happen. She asked Jack to dance, he is 83. Jim said he told her " I don't think my wife would like that." Irene was in the bathroom at the time. When she came back Sam said I told her what happened. Lol She told us another stories when that happened, Too. Did I say he is 83, lol 

Jim told Sam " you still got it buddy. " We had a fun night together. Jim and I were able to dance alot too. 

We all headed home about 10:00 p.m..

Sunday January 28, 2024

Today I like to get up and watch Sunday with Willy Geist, while we have our coffee, and I made breakfast. Today I didn't do much felt sleepy all day, I think because of the pollen hitting me so hard here this time of year. I think it affected Jim too.  He slept in the chair for 2 hours while I listened to NoBS. 

Later we went for a golf cart ride and visited with Nancy and Neil as they arrived today. That was about the full extent of the day. 

Our friends Mandy made this cute little giraffe for Nancy's granddaughter Olivia.

Tomorrow is Happy Monday and we plan to continue to move forward....