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[Readytogo]

Welcome Doris, to a great bunch of friends. I have only been a member a little over a year and a half but have already met many. Check the member map and gtg area and see who who can meet with. Wendy

[DorisAnn]

WOW! Thanks for all the welcomes. I'm excited to start participating and reading adventures of everyone else. Now to see if I can answer all the questions.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to make the GTG in Texas as our gate guarding gig doesn't allow much time off. It's 24 hours and one of us always has to be here. I don't think either one of us gets enough sleep to drive very far and leave the other. I'll keep an eye out though for future ones as we travel.

Our festival work consists of setting up internet equipment and training festival staff on equipment at the gates for scanning tickets upon entry. We did eight festivals last year and probably will do 8 again this year, although not all the same ones. We worked a country music festival in Kansas (Country Stampede) for 10 years and made contacts for our festival work through that. I guess you could say we created our own workamping job!

We will be leaving here in mid April to spend a week at Ft Sam Houston FamCamp to clean the 5er inside and out and then a week in Kerrville at our first RV rally. We will then be heading home to Kansas for about 7 weeks to visit kids, grandkids and friends. Then the festival gig gets going ....Nebraskaland Days in North Platte, Country Stampede in Manhattan KS, Muscokegan and Lansing MI are our next two. That brings us to the end of July. We'll head back to Kansas and Missouri for hanging out and visiting until the end of September and then do the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque and the last one is Voodoo Festival in New Orleans at the end of October. Sometime in there another festival or two will probably be added.
It all sounds busy, but we have lots of down time to roam and explore.

Our gate guarding gig is another 1099 job, but no contract on how long. We let the company know when we are ready and then we let them know when we are leaving. We got here the 2nd week in November. We have had a pretty great gate. Pretty slow for the most part but should be picking up this week.

Thanks again for the welcome and I hope to spend lots of time here!

Doris

[cpatinjones]

Welcome to the forum!

[Gentleladybear]

Welcome to the forum. We love pictures and stories. So share with us when you can.

[Colliemom]

Hi Doris, glad you joined us. See you have been to Michigan, this is my home state. What kind of festival work were you doing. There is a member on here, who did work with the carnival for a few years along with her husband, so she might chime in sometime. Sounds ilke you are enjoying your lifestyle.

My dad was in the Army during WWII and stationed at Fr. Sill too.

[Colliemom]

Hi Joy and welcome to the forum. Sounds like you are getting anxious to hit the road. A nice "shakedown cruise" close to home would be the ideal "first trip" to get familiar with things and make sure all is well with the rig. And learning to drive it too is a good idea. I work at a state park here in Michigan and I see a lot of women driving rigs in and out all the time. Like Birdie said, you never know what can happen on a trip. Gotta be prepared for those emergencies. Then after that shakedown trip, off you go to explore wherever you want

[slgulezian]

Hi, Welcome to the forum. I am new here also in S.West Florida, originally from New England. This group of ladies are so helpful and nice. I am happy that I joined. love to see your pictures.
I am in the process of buying a rv and traveling alone full time.

[Liz]

A late but sincere welcome to this fine group!

[Sprinter]

Welcome Doris! To the forum and to Texas!

[Getupngo]

Welcome to the forum Doris Ann! You're an old hand at the full-time RVing stuff ... you can help bring the young'uns along! Look forward to seeing pictures of your rig and hearing about your adventures. You can teach us a thing or two about making a living on the road.