I am starting this but forgive mistakes. It is tiny on my computer and I don't know how to increase the size and I have no one around to ask. I think I must have figured it out. This windows 8 has quite a learning curve. But I am getting it.
I can't believe I haven't written since Minnesota. I made some notes as we went along but have had poor reception so couldn't get on the web and some spots I couldn't even make a phone call. So forgive me any of you that wonder why I dropped off the face of the earth. I couldn't do a lot on the road as the roads are so bumpy anymore. Every state has terrible roads any more so it seems no state has money to fix them.
Lets see, some stories. I am not sure if I told this or not but we were in a town and before leaving we drove by a coffee shop. An old cowboy was leaning on the post outside the door drinking his coffee waiting for his partner who was getting his. As I walked up he said to me " That's a pretty long wagon train you got there". I just got a kick out of that. So we are a wagon train.
We got tshirts in San Antonio when I gave blood that were promotions from the Silver Spurs basketball team. I wore mine the other day, or I thought it was mine, and the day was more than 1/2 over and I realized that it had all sorts of holes all over it. The more I looked at it, tho embarrassed I figured it looked like a lot battery acid holes. Leroy agreed. Could not figure out how that would have happened to me. That nite I checked his closet, sure enough, mine was in his closet. I could prove it by the size. So all day I wore his holey t shirt and it probably WAS battery acid and here I had been wondering if I had moths or if I had done something to it in the wash and he never even gave me any slack that maybe it was his. Mine was in perfect condition. MEN!!!
We saw a large Holstein cow statue and a large sandhill crane statue.
Jeff had a birthday and he celebrated it by getting some pieces for his camera. Would you believe it someone busted his car window and stole his camera. Poor kid, it really put a damper on his birthday.
It kind of seems I wrote all this but when I looked back at the blog I couldn't find it. I write these things in my mind and then when I do write it it kinda seems like dejavue. So it may be but it may be just that I can't remember if I did it or not. My brain is so full of stuff I have spill over at ties
We left the cities and spent an evening with Heidi and had such a nice time. I wish she was well but she has a true tough spirit that seems to run in this family and it seems to keep carrying her along. I spent a day and overnight with my sister Kathy and I always enjoy seeing my sisters. We went out for lunch and took Leroy to the walk-in clinic. He had fallen in the creek in Montana when he was fishing in Montana and hurt his shin. He ended up with cellulitis. So he had to be on antibiotics and it was sore for a few days. Then I went down and spent a day and nite with Bonnie after we all met for lunch together to celebrate her birthday. That was fun and Bonnie and I spent a long time going over her family tree that seems to be growing and growing. Before I left Rennie came in the morning so it was fun to see him, it always is. He is one hell of a kid.
Then we started out to get to Arkansas as soon as we could. We drove some long days. Poor Leroy, he wouldn't let me help because the wind was so terrible he thought it might have been out of my line of expertise in the driving department. I would have to have my log to know what days we went and where we stayed (which is not with me now). I just know they were long long days. We stopped at a quilt store in Iowa, I think we stopped in Missouri too, oh yeah, that was a really cool store. I have hit one here in Arkansas that wasn't so spectacular but had lovely people running it.
We had one thing on our mind and that was getting to our destination here in Arkansas. We are in Heber Springs Arkansas. We came to go to a Workkamper Rendezvous. It has been 4 days of the most informative seminars and we have learned so much that will help us with our lifestyle and working on the road and about our rig and cooking and resume writing and new electronic classes and I can't even repeat all we have learned. Our minds are just boggled.
We met some of the nicest people the minute we got out of the RV. We made good friends out of the people that were parked on both sides of us and had some fun. May keep in touch with these people for a long time. I have really learned how one of the attractions of workkamping is the relationships you make and I have learned this is really true for us all along. Now we have a common bond with others in the same place and time as us.
So the first day we had breakfast and lunch here at the seminars. We have seminars in am and pm and some group seminars. The next day was seminars and a home show of some of the RV's. Little did I know Leroy volunteered our rig for one of the home shows so I had to quickly clean it and make it presentable which is hard when you have 5 animals in there. The next day (yesterday) we had seminars again and we had a huge barbecue in the evening as an ending. Today was bonus sessions and Leroy had one on tax secrets and such. He also has a RV weigh session tomorrow am. He is considering doing the education and testing to become an RV inspector and RV campground technician to help us make money and save money by doing our own work.
The whole thing officially ends today. We plan on staying here thru Monday and maybe longer if we aren't sure what we are doing. We will now try to find a position that will suit us. Maybe for $ and a campsite, maybe volunteer just for a campsite. We aren't sure what the next step will be. We just wait til the Lord tells us what it is. We just do this journey based on faith. That was another thing that was cool, this workkamper business is a christian based business and it is family run and let me tell you they are THEE coolest family you can ever imagine. I can't tell you how much we have learned and taken away from these days. Its a great feeling to be part of such a great organization.
It has been held in the community center here and it is the nicest facility. The food was catered by a local restaurant called Good Times. It is run by the sweetest black lady who learned to cook in New Orleans. The food has been incredible. I have had thee best mac and cheese that I have ever had. And we became friends and when we went to her restaurant she gave us an appetizer and a desert free. The appetizer was the most different and delicious onion rings I have ever eaten. The desert was a cream cheese roll (it had a fancier name) and it was like an egg roll with cream cheese in it and covered with fresh apple compote. She also fixes green beans with bacon and such that was so good. Good southern comfort food.
We are sitting in the community center catching up on computer stuff since we can't get a signal at the campground and I didn't want to use up all our gigs on the hot spot.
I don't know where we will be in the next few days. We may change to a different park so we can get wifi better. We are staying in the Corps of Engineer parks that are so lovely and it really feels like camping. Plus with out senior parks card it is only costing us $11/noc and we can't hardly beat that. It is so beautiful here I must take some pictures and post them. Think this is all for today.
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