Living in an RV or Why I Use My Wife’s Deodorant

We’ve been busy travelling from Savannah towards our stick house in Indiana. We’re visiting our stick house in order to clean it up and put in some landscaping touches to see if we can’t attract some serious buyers. We’ve also cut our price another $10,000. So far, we’ve cut our price about 10% from our initial price.

Since Savannah, we’ve gone to Cordele, GA and stayed in an absolutely beautiful campground in the Georgia Military Veterans Park. While there, we visited the Andersonville National Historic Site and the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site. Then we made our longest one day trip in our rv from Cordele, GA to Tunica, MS where we spent two days at the casinos. We then went to Bonne Terre. MO where we camped at the St. Francois State Park in order to visit with my wife’s sister. We then went to Cahokia, IL to visit more of my wife’s family and some of our friends from when we lived in the area.

I hope to post some of the pictures we took along the way as well as resuming my campground reviews soon. Hope you’re enjoying your adventures as much as we’re enjoying ours.

Today I changed the title of my blog from jim wilson’s blog to “Living in an RV or Why I Use my Wife’s Deodorant”. It struck me this morning while using my wife’s deodorant that living in an rv has brought about many practical changes. We no longer have separate toiletries for example. We installed a water filter on our kitchen water tap to avoid having to take up valuable space with bottled water. And in the process, we’re growing closer and having more fun than we ever have. We’re hoping that this new life’s adventures never end.

As you can see from my lack of posts over the last couple of months, I have really been lax at posting. I have to admit that I admire people like Howard at the RV-Dreams blog who religiously post almost every day.

So — what has happened since my last post? We’ve spent a month in Lake Placid, Florida and almost six weeks at Titusville, Florida. We’ve had our granddaughter Katy here during her spring break from grade school in Lexington, KY. We’re about to leave Florida for a slow trip back to Indiana.

And, I’m going to try again to start posting regularly. My first batch of posts will be to review some of the campgrounds we stayed in and to share any wisdom we gained about how to select a campground with only information from the internet and published directories. I promise that I’ll at least get out the campground reviews soon. After that, I’ll see if I can be more dedicated about posting to this blog. Until my next post, I hope you’re enjoying your adventure as much as Cindy and I are enjoying ours!

How do you know if a storm is coming if you’re staying in an rv park?

If almost everyone has their awnings up, almost certainly at least high winds (more than 15 mph) are forecast. If the awnings are up and the slides are in, then you can be certain that a bad storm is moving your way. Yesterday while walking the dog, I noticed many awnings were up. I came in the rv, checked weather underground and saw winds gusting to 18 mph at Arcadia which is about 30 miles sw of Lake Placid (FL). Needless to say, I got Cindy to help me and the awning went up. Later while walking the dog (again), I saw that almost everyone had put their awning up. And sure enough, we had a storm move thru later.

Sometimes you’re having so much fun that you forget that your rv is your home.  I’ve been having so much fun lately that it was a real bummer when Cindy announced that today was going to be a work day.  All of the usual stuff associated with a stick house and more needs to be done in a motor home I’ve discovered.  So, the laundry got laundered, the shopping was done, the prescriptions were refilled, the rv was cleaned, and  so on.  Of course, thankfully I am married to the Eveready bunny — Cindy.  She somehow in spite of all her medical issues starts working and doesn’t stop until every thing is done.  Today, I got by easy as she decided to scrub the carpet which had gotten stained in several places while I did the grocery shopping.

After all this was done, Cindy cooked up some of the fish we caught several days ago on our deep sea fishing trip.  All I can say is that Cindy spoils me with her cooking.  A truly enjoyable meal.  Maggie also enjoyed it!

Enjoying the adventure — until next time.

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Now playing: Dexter Gordon – The Blues Walk
via FoxyTunes

While posting my last post, my computer upchucked.  I later found out that my hard drive had died and I hadn’t backed anything up in months.  You’d think that as many hard drives as I have lost (three in the last year) that I would learn my lesson.