Finishing My Year Long Project

I kept toying with the idea of getting a cat. I just don't ever want to deal with the loss of another pet and the best way I can think of to do that is to never have another pet.

Anyway, I've given myself about three more weeks to finish my year long project. The World's greatest Blogger theme. Putting some finishing touches on it. For example I just added some code to the emoticons panel to keep it from translating. People all over the world can use this theme if they want. It's responsive and I took a lot of care to make sure every widget and everything you can put under posts works great. OK, you can see it - Glowing Dark Forest. I'm retesting all the widgets and often put weird colored backgrounds on temporarily to help me see spacing and things so you know it's just temporary if you see something like that. I'm also writing very clear instructions from how to upload to using the slider.

Hope all's well out there! :)

In Elkhart

We got to meet Chris and Cherie! They are so nice! They were going for a walk and we were unloading Walmart bags from the truck. I said "hey Chris and Cherie"! I wouldn't have done that but commented on their blog and they're good with that so I did. Yay! Super nice!

Later, We got to meet Carla from CozyBeGone! But only for a second, there were people behind us pulling in. She wrote me via RVillage that she was concerned, never seeing me out and the rig is closed up. I wrote her back saying I'm good just working a lot. I don't know if she got the message. I did go over that evening that I said I would but it was 9:15pm, looked like they were out or in for the night.

Later still, Todd wants a pet but I never, ever want to go through that again. He wants a cat now, says they're low maintenance. Noooooo.

Oh yeah, the water in Elkhart is horrific! If you're coming here be ready to put some money down on a filter. We were talking about it here on RV.Net.

Oh my gosh, other than that I love it here! There are serious cool spurts and then it gets back to pretty hot, but not near what we're used to!

G'Night All :-)

I'm just sitting here watchin' the wheels go round and round...

We made it up here to Elkhart, IN on May 3rd! Can't believe it's taken me this long to update here. We thought we might be stuck in TN for a while to save up money as Todd's new job required quite a bit of equipment. Todd's Mom and Step Dad came to the rescue (loan)! Todd is working and doing great and I've been working hard to get my first responsive Blogger template done. I always think I'm almost done then there's something else I want to improve. I have too much fun geekin' out!

I got up early this morning, sitting here at the computer by the window working (if you can call it that) and watching a parade of RVs roll by. I couldn't believe how many! I saw a really cool old bus and said "Todd, look at that! Oh my gosh that's Chris and Cherie from Technomadia!" (And Kiki!) So I checked their blog and they're here for the Escapees RV Club's annual rally. Nice! I've been meaning to say hi to them on their blog for over a year now I think!

I can barely get online at the moment. This campground is full and it's too chilly at 55° for a lot of people to be outside so there ya go.

Hope ya'll are having a great weekend!

Partying Monkeys Raised the Roof

We left Salt Lake City Thursday heading back to Tennessee to take care of some personal business before going to the new job in Elkhart, Indiana. We knew we'd probably drive into bad weather and thought we might need to hunker down somewhere in between for a day. While in Nebraska we saw a couple of guys who were obviously in the same line of work as Todd so we pulled up and enjoyed a conversation with them. They said too "sometimes you just have to stop, it's not worth it (tippin' a trailer)". They were so nice and we think we'll see at least one of them again. We saw a turned over tractor trailer earlier in Wyoming.

Salt Lake City

Strange back yard ornament in Salt Lake City!

Elk Mountain, Wyoming

The weather was getting worse and worse with very strong wind. In Iowa, stopping for fuel and a bathroom break, Todd noticed the roof of the trailer was catching air and was bubbled up. "On no! I think we should find a campground (and a storm shelter I was thinking), we didn't think we'd get too far today", I said. T said he was going to get the ladder out to evaluate the situation. "NO, you'll get blown off the roof!" We pulled in behind the gas station where the crazy man took a look. "The glue that holds the top liner to the wood is giving out" (or something like that) he said. What wood, I silently wondered, but right now who cares? He checked the weather from his phone, said the wind will be dying down in a couple of hours, calm overnight and picking back up in the morning. We'll be heading into it instead of crosswinds soon. "I think we should drive all night, stay ahead of it". "Oh crap! We started this day tired!" We had listened to the weather on the radio before and there was a good chance of tornadoes. Hmm, drive tired all night or sleep in a tornado magnet after we'd been warned. Looks like driving all night. The worst part is my eyesight is bad so T doesn't trust me to drive though I think I can keep it between the lines on the interstate but nooooo, Todd has to do it all himself.

He sang with the radio, had the windows down some for the cool air and kept going. We figured we could make it to TN around 8:00am, before the storms get there.

I figured he'd give up and find a campground around 12 or 1 in the morning... nope. "Go to sleep", he says. "Na, I don't want to leave you alone." "I'm fine." "OK, I'll try to take a lil naaaa... zzzz." There were about three little naps. Todd was completely determined to make it and couldn't be talked out of it. The last hour or two were the worst. He told me he almost couldn't go anymore but pulling off now would defeat the purpose of getting to town before the storms. This is when the ability to babble works in our favor, ha! Keep talking!

Sunrise in Kentucky

We called a campground about thirty minutes out and rolled in about 8:30am, Goodlettesville, TN. Todd slept a lot Sunday and I got about four more hours in. Monday we got some things including laundry done. The storms weren't too bad at all here luckily. Thoughts and prayers go out to the ones who weren't so lucky.

4/29/14
T said he can't do anything to secure the roof better in the time we have but we think it'll be fine for the short 7½ hour drive to Indiana. We watched it carefully on the way down here and thankfully it stayed the same, bad, but the same. With all the rain we did get we don't see any inside the camper, again, thankfully!

T's Mom took us out to dinner and T's brother came too. It was really nice. I sure do like them!

Our internet connection here is sketchy at best. Not sure how long we'll need to be here, hopefully just a couple more days.

Oh yeah, the title... I've always said, since the first trip, "it's like invisible monkeys are having a big ol' party in the trailer while we're driving". Sometimes things aren't near where we left them.

Today, April 30^th, is a beautiful day!

What It's Like to Live in a Small Space

I think of this game often while living in this camper! Heheee. I've always liked this game though! Enjoy!

RV Living sliding puzzle game » sliding block puzzles

Trip To Our New Temporary City

Though we like Baytown, Texas so much we didn't like working together. The company understood and without a hiccup started looking for our new place - either Salt Lake City, UT or Shreveport, LA where T would work alone again. My replacement came down from Dallas to finish the job in east Houston with Todd. Thanks Pat!

Just over a week ago we "re-homed" Jesse. We found out we'd have a long trip to Utah and after that we'll be traveling a lot more. Jesse is the best puppy I've ever seen. He's energetic and super social, we aren't and knew he wouldn't live up to his potential traveling all the time and just being around us. We turned down the first couple and there was another lady who wanted him but another couple called first - his new parents. They're wonderful and Jesse loved them right away. I won't go into detail about all the adorable things Jesse did. We love him enough to let him go to a better life for him. I'd forgotten what it was like to be heartbroken. Todd is too but it's for the best.

Last Monday Todd traded in the Suburban for a Ford F250 as the extensive traveling would be a little too much for the Suburban. T says he can't even tell the camper is there with this truck. We don't get blown around by speeding eighteen wheelers passing in the opposite direction anymore either.

Wednesday it was time to hook & book. The first night we stayed in northern Texas, then a night in Albuquerque, NM, then Cortez, CO. We think these places are really cool! So is Moab, UT,  though we didn't stay. We wanted to stop at the four corners but the park was closed when we were near. It closes at five this time of year.



We arrived at our new temporary home city Saturday night and after 1,650 miles of road  we were tired! It was a pretty good trip except the broken wall side of the camper's seal came loose (flappin' in the wind) and we're still missing Jesse. Todd pulled over, tightened screws and added some tape to seriously cracked lower body on the trailer.

Yesterday it snowed all afternoon but we didn't mind, it was beautiful.

One Year Fulltiming

Hooray! We actually moved into the travel trailer on March 13, 2013. We've heard people say it takes at least a year to get use to it. I think we're used to it but we do want a bigger 5th wheel.

End world's shortest post. ;)