FROSTY FRIDAY WITH SNOW FLURRIES
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 4:51 amGOOD MORNING ALL!
It's a bit below freezing this morning, with just a dusting, like confectioner's sugar, of snow on surfaces. I don't know why I am up so early, but I guess when I lie there and contemplate the things I still need to do, I have to get up! Molly was mouse-chasing this morning, but I don't see any carcasses lying around!
Today will be the day I transfer all my contact names and addresses, both real and email, and phone numbers to my address book I resurrected from my freshman year at college days. I have lots of free space in there! I will also call Direct TV to find out what I have to do to make my receiver work at my son's house when/if I can get the portable dish set up to grab a signal. I am keeping my bundled phone, DSL, and TV package this first year, even though the phone and DSL will be of no use to me. Mandy says she will help me pay for that package while I'm away, as they will use it. I will probably eventually buy a Verizon air card, one I can turn off for half the year, when I get settled into my son's yard. If I decide to stay in my house for any length of time, I will go for a bundled plan with the cable service in that area. Some have asked why haul my trailer if I have a house down there----because I love camping, want to explore FL state's campgrounds, maybe tavel around down there, and staying at my son's will be free with total hookups. (I'll have my own electric meter, water from a well, and septic system.) I also need the experience of hauling so I can again head out another year across the country to visit my daughter on the west coast and once again see the beauty of places I explored back in the 60s in my VW bus/conversion van.
If I decide to rent my house in the Orlando area, after I fix it up properly, it will be income for me until the value of it rises back up to where I can sell it. I just need to make sure that this time I get a competent rental agency to handle that property, if possible. And I love that place, as it's in a friendly neighborhood, has a swimming pool/jacouzzi, clubhouse with activities, lawn care, garbage pickup, biking distance to all the shopping stores I would need, situated on a pond where I can canoe the back rivers, and it's beautiful!
Yesterday I printed out a huge list of Pilot and Flying J truck stops along my route, and my plan is to now utilize those for overnights for free and for eating, thus saving quite a bit of money I would have spent on campgrounds. If the weather is nice,however, there is a super KOA campground in one of the Carolinas that has a covered, heated swimming pool and a pretty pond around which to walk with Molly. It might be fun to pull off there and spend a couple of nights, if they have a pull-through space, or one easy to back into. I usually stop there when I am alone and driving my truck and rent a Kamping Kabin next to the pond that they have set aside for those with dogs. It is a beautiful place.
As I get more and more useful things added to my travel plans, I am feeling a bit better. Knowing where those truck stops are has been a big help. I will plan to stop early and then leave from them early in order to find the best spots as I suspect they will be packed with snowbirds and truckers at this time of year. I love those Iron Skillet buffets at some of those, too!
Let's see---addresses this morning, then a good long walk in the woods for Molly and me, and then over to Issy's for supper and cocktails this afternoon. Oh yes, and bring in some more firewood---the never-ending chore of winters here in the north country!
Coffee is hot, so stop in and tell us what's what in your neck of the woods, so to speak. This trip has made me aware of how helpful it is to have friends out there on the roads with experience who can pass on some tips to newbie haulers like me!
Barbzee's tips have been invaluable to me! Thanks so much, Barb!
Happy Friday!
It's a bit below freezing this morning, with just a dusting, like confectioner's sugar, of snow on surfaces. I don't know why I am up so early, but I guess when I lie there and contemplate the things I still need to do, I have to get up! Molly was mouse-chasing this morning, but I don't see any carcasses lying around!
Today will be the day I transfer all my contact names and addresses, both real and email, and phone numbers to my address book I resurrected from my freshman year at college days. I have lots of free space in there! I will also call Direct TV to find out what I have to do to make my receiver work at my son's house when/if I can get the portable dish set up to grab a signal. I am keeping my bundled phone, DSL, and TV package this first year, even though the phone and DSL will be of no use to me. Mandy says she will help me pay for that package while I'm away, as they will use it. I will probably eventually buy a Verizon air card, one I can turn off for half the year, when I get settled into my son's yard. If I decide to stay in my house for any length of time, I will go for a bundled plan with the cable service in that area. Some have asked why haul my trailer if I have a house down there----because I love camping, want to explore FL state's campgrounds, maybe tavel around down there, and staying at my son's will be free with total hookups. (I'll have my own electric meter, water from a well, and septic system.) I also need the experience of hauling so I can again head out another year across the country to visit my daughter on the west coast and once again see the beauty of places I explored back in the 60s in my VW bus/conversion van.
If I decide to rent my house in the Orlando area, after I fix it up properly, it will be income for me until the value of it rises back up to where I can sell it. I just need to make sure that this time I get a competent rental agency to handle that property, if possible. And I love that place, as it's in a friendly neighborhood, has a swimming pool/jacouzzi, clubhouse with activities, lawn care, garbage pickup, biking distance to all the shopping stores I would need, situated on a pond where I can canoe the back rivers, and it's beautiful!
Yesterday I printed out a huge list of Pilot and Flying J truck stops along my route, and my plan is to now utilize those for overnights for free and for eating, thus saving quite a bit of money I would have spent on campgrounds. If the weather is nice,however, there is a super KOA campground in one of the Carolinas that has a covered, heated swimming pool and a pretty pond around which to walk with Molly. It might be fun to pull off there and spend a couple of nights, if they have a pull-through space, or one easy to back into. I usually stop there when I am alone and driving my truck and rent a Kamping Kabin next to the pond that they have set aside for those with dogs. It is a beautiful place.
As I get more and more useful things added to my travel plans, I am feeling a bit better. Knowing where those truck stops are has been a big help. I will plan to stop early and then leave from them early in order to find the best spots as I suspect they will be packed with snowbirds and truckers at this time of year. I love those Iron Skillet buffets at some of those, too!
Let's see---addresses this morning, then a good long walk in the woods for Molly and me, and then over to Issy's for supper and cocktails this afternoon. Oh yes, and bring in some more firewood---the never-ending chore of winters here in the north country!
Coffee is hot, so stop in and tell us what's what in your neck of the woods, so to speak. This trip has made me aware of how helpful it is to have friends out there on the roads with experience who can pass on some tips to newbie haulers like me!
Barbzee's tips have been invaluable to me! Thanks so much, Barb!
Happy Friday!
