It's back to Firefox

Something happened.  Maybe you don't care, but I just made my way back to blogger after removing Google Chrome, going back to Internet Explorer and then re downloading Mozilla Firefox.  All this because all of a sudden GC was giving us lots of error messages. I suppose we'll have to remember a bunch of passwords and reload some favorites pages, but hopefully our searching experience will be better.  Now it's off to the Drake Road Farmers Market in Fort Collins to sing for our groceries. 

Back on the Blog

Hello there, it's been awhile; since Marty didn't get on here yet today, thought I'd take the opportunity. We had a good trip traveling from our little Days of 76 rv park in Deadwood, S.D., through some of the Black Hills to Devil's Tower and beautiful wide open spaces in Wyoming, with nice views of pronghorns (a favorite Kansas native of mine)to a nice rv park in Lusk, WY. Linda, the proprietor, welcomed us and now we're having a nice restful night, getting caught up on stuff.

Had a tough bicycle ride 1600' up the Mickelson Trail yesterday, (my first real Rails-to-Trails) for a total trip of 32 miles from campground to summit and back--my longest ever. We enjoyed ice cream at the bottom of the hill and I was glad to have done it, although it was difficult--the coasting downhill was a blast! Had a nice visit with several groups of friends, a little music playing.

Now we're off for a good night's rest before hitting the road again tomorrow to head toward Ft. Collins!

Meeting Ms. Ambrose

We met a nice lady in Deadwood, SD.  She's traveling around the area and camping in a little tent here at the campsite.

   

I saw her this morning and we had a short conversation.  She told me that she found a Canadian coin in a different part of the campground and plans to find a nice Canadian person to give it to.  Later Janie and I saw her again and she shared some more stories with us while we shared a little of what we're doing.

This evening our new friend N. came over to our house for a chat, and what a blessed conversation we had with her.  She kept saying she wanted to hear some of our stories, but I think the spirit wanted her to tell us stories.  We had a grand time.  N has been traveling and camping here and there all her life. In a few days she'll move up to another town near her for the winter.  She apparently has a hotel where she stays for the winter so she doesn't have to camp on the ground,  then come summer she'll go where the spirit leads.  She tells us she's 71 years young.

We had a mutual prayer for each other and a hug before she left.  Maybe we'll see her again out and down the road. Don't forget to say hi to folks you meet along the way, it may make all the difference in the world.

Hook up Breakfast

I'll try to get some pics in here pretty soon.  We went over for the hook up breakfast this morning, they call it that because many folks are "hooking up" (toads to their motorhomes or trailers to their trucks) to head out to other parts.  We saw lots of our friends, the young (to us) family of four who are going to head out on their full-time adventure this coming spring.  The musicians we met who we plan to see again and work with to create an informal BOF (Birds Of a Feather) group called "Music on the Road".  This group will be for people who pick, sing and/or grin, this formation was inspired by the jam sessions while we were here.

After breakfast, I had some work to do on the rig and Janie did some tidying up and organizing for our departure tomorrow.  I noticed that the awning mount had come loose so I went to the mobile RV repair shop and bought a couple of more substantial screws and repaired the mount.  I then checked the other mount and noticed that it could also loosen, so I got some longer screws for that as well, put some fresh dicor sealant around it and refastened it.

It strikes us what a great group of people these Escapees are, and one of the things that we noticed is that we are all different and we're all the same. This RV group we found are all very accepting of others.  It strikes me that when you live in a box, you really resist in some imaginary box.

Til next time.....

Martin

Escapade, Gillette, Wyoming

Wow, it's been a while.  Now we're in Gillette, Wyoming at the last couple of days at the Escapade, a Rally for Escapees RV Club members.  Escapees is sort of set up for full timers, but there are also many people who have homes and rv part time, and many who are on their way to full time.

We have had a ball here and we've learned a lot as well.  We met many new friends, including our graduating class of 2010.  In Escapees, people join a graduating class based on the year they expect to go full time.  We began our path in 2009 so we could probably have been in that class, but we actually sold our home in 2010 so we selected that.  In fact, while here, Janie and I wrote a song for the class based on the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.

We also played music in the Jam Session that they scheduled and we did a couple of songs in the "Ham-o-ram-a".  

Well that's enough for now.  I suppose we'll get to writing in this a little more later.  Note to self...... Remember to update the blog.