Off For Some Turkey with the Family

Marti, Zoe the Wonder Dog and I are leaving to drive to New Jersey to have a nice Thanksgiving dinner with my dad and siblings and then spend the weekend with our son and DIL, Corey and Amanda. 

We may miss a couple of days of blog posts, but rest assured, we'll be back.  Big news is in the works and some pieces are finally falling into place.

Here's wishing all our followers and RV friends a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

Marti's Musings: Yikes, This is Getting Serious!

Paul and I are really enjoying this whole blogging bit.  It is has been just over 6 months since we started blogging, after an inspiring RV rally.  We have shared our woes, progress, frustrations, successes and our preparations...  yeah, we are getting serious about this whole Full Timing bit.  Each and every day, we encourage each other, reminding ourselves about the light at the end of the tunnel.

But, as serious as as the plans are, what is really getting serious - our blogging followers! Welcome, by the way,to our newest followers, Sherry B.  and Chuck and Anneke!

As I was working through the Blogger dashboard, I saw the "Stats" tab- yikes!  Folks from all over the WORLD have seen our blog.  (Ok, so some have only hit us up once, but still!)  So... now this has kicked up a level for me.  I feel responsible for you guys!  LOL

Seriously, thanks to our faithful followers (at least those who admit it) - and even those who don't admit to following  (you know who you are! LOL).  It is fun to plan, and share it with you folks.  We love the comments, encouragement and laughs you share with us. 

We expect to have news to share quite soon - until then, stay tuned.... and,


THANKS!  
      СПАСИБО
            TAK
                MERCI
                     תודה  
                        고맙소
                             padėka
                                 ačiū

~Marti

A Victory and a Defeat

We found them!  Actually, Marti tracked them down on line, Care Bears for granddaughter Taylor.  Marti also found a bunch of Care Bear DVDs.  Little Taylor will be happy this Christmas.  I am too.   As much as we like driving the Journey around, it's not the most economical shopping cart, even at 8 mpg.  So a victory. :c)

Yesterday, when we took the Journey back to the storage lot, because it is going to sit for a month or two,  I had to shut down the main house power switch and the chassis power switch.  With all the little sensors and alarms that are wired to both sets of batteries, they add up enough of a power draw to run the batteries way down if left on.  The house switch is right on the dashboard.  The chassis power switch is in back of the Journey, inside the engine hatch.

If you remember a couple of weeks back, I found the engine hatch fiberglass had started to come loose from the hatch frame and I used some heavy duty epoxy to bind the two back together.

Well, the epoxy failed and the parts came apart again.  A defeat. :c(

However, I don't give up easy.  I've already figured out that I'll use some JB Weld, I've read it is one of the best 2 part epoxies on the market.  I'm also going to get some stainless steel screws, drill holes around the edges of the frame after I put on the new epoxy and screw the two parts together.  I don't think the hatch will come apart after that. 

 I'll turn a defeat back into another victory, but now with all the holidays coming upon us, the real trick will be finding the time to do it.

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