It's Christmas Morning and I'm up at 3am, stayed in bed to 4 but that's it, just can't sleep. It's now 5am and Kim and Dave just got up, Dave's normal time but not Kim's, unless it's Xmas day. Don't expect to see Danny for a while, he is not a morning person, but he better learn to be with a baby on the way.
Sunday morning I was in our shed looking for some pictures and paperwork that Dave needed and I lifted a box, while standing sideways, that was very heavy and pulled the muscle in my side. Dave said I should have waited for help, I'm 50 now and can't lift that shit anymore, at 49 yes, but not a 50 year old grandma. Needless to say I have been hobbling around for the last 2 days. Danny brought some stuff home from work, Bio freeze, which is a pain relieving gel, and it really helped last night. This morning it isn't as sore.
Busy day today, will go to David Jr's for breakfast, Danny's parents for a snack, then to my Brother Mike's for the big Christmas dinner, my once a year prime rib fix.
Tomorrow, December 26th is Danny's 26th birthday, we will take him to breakfast then he has to work. In the afternoon Dave and I head off for LAX and will spend the night there and catch our flight Thursday morning back to Orlando.
The 26th is also my nephew Jimmy's 40th Birthday, So Happy Birthday to Jimmy and Danny.
Merry Christmas to all, will write when we get back to Orlando.

We are here in Bakersfield, got in last Monday, and the weather is cold, I need my Florida weather.Haven't even been here a week and already my tan is gone. We have just been hanging out all week, finishing up Christmas shopping and visiting with Kim and Danny.
Yesterday was my surprise birthday party but it wasn't a surprise, of course I found out, they just don't know how to surprise me. All though, I must say, Kim and Danny did give Dave and I a BIG surprise when we got here, Kim is pregnant 10 weeks now. They told us Monday night, right before she left for her 1st night shift,7pm to 7am. I think my jaw was still hanging to the ground when she left, she thought we were mad, no just in shock. Not only was I turning 50 the next day, now I was going to be 50 and a grandma, no I'm too young for this, boy talk about getting old, all in one day. We are very happy for them, and us, and everyone else involved in this, Danny's parents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, ect. It is going to be a great addition to the family.
Then Dave and I started thinking and talking about how does this effect our travels? We both agreed our travels will be put on hold for the next couple years, we want to be here to help out with what we can. We started looking around at houses but we are leaning towards a mobile home, double wide, like what my parents lived in. We are looking for very cheap, but in a nice area, we don't plan on staying in Bakersfield we still plan on going to Arizona but just not right now.
Back to my surprise party, once the family was all here we then had to manage to get them all in one room so we could tell them the news. Dave and I were not allowed to tell anyone until the majority of the family was told. Anyway, the only way to get the family or just anyone at a party together in one room is to start the food line, that always works. Once everyone was in the kitchen/dining room Kim and Danny wanted me to tell everyone, I started off with a little story, boy was I nervous, and when I got to the part about Danny wanting me to talk to Kim's belly, everyone knew, and the tears starting rolling down faces, I didn't even get to finish my story. Everyone was hugging them and congratulating them, the party really started going then. It was a lot of fun having everyone together and sharing the news with them, Kim and Danny were at first going to wait until Christmas Day to tell everyone, but none of us could hold in that good news any longer.
Danny's sister, Bibiana, had made me a birthday cake with a motor home decorated on it, cute picture and great tasting cake, I swear she should go into the baking business. When the cake was brought out we all then remembered it was my birthday party, not the Kim and Danny baby party, just kidding.
Caught up on my blog again, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

From Dave
Since I have even more time on my hands being in Bakersfield I am going to add Feeds to the Blog. Since I have no idea how these feeds work I don't know what will happen. Just have to wait and see. Hope to see many of you while we are in California over the next 10 days.

Well today is Jeri's 50th birthday.

Happy Birthday Jeri

Sunday morning and nothing exciting to report. We are having tornado warnings around here but it missed us. Just lots of rain with thunder and lighting, I forgot to close the window by the couch so it got a little wet.
Dropped Valley off on Friday morning so I was a little depressed that day, just hope everything goes well with her. They took our coach again on Saturday and finished putting in our back camera, this time they put in a whole new system, will see if this one works.
That's it for now, after going to breakfast with Lee and Vicki this morning we will head out to the hotel, got all packed yesterday.
Don't know if I'll update the blog while we are gone, if not I'll write again when we get back.
Merry Christmas to all

It's Wednesday night and still here at Camp Monaco hanging out. Yesterday and today didn't get in much walking Valley is just worn out. Dave is either on his computer or checking on the RV so I have Valley all the time. Today he left for Wal-Mart and was gone almost 3 hours, it's against the law in Florida to leave your animal in the car so we both couldn't go. He ended up going to Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Staples ect. who the hell knows, but that's why he was gone so long. Sorry, I get a little stir crazy when I can't get away from Valley, 24 hours a day gets on my nerves.
We found out today our coach won't be done by Friday so we'll leave it here while we fly back to California. Something under the top step wasn't welded right and broke, that's why our step has been sinking in when you step on it. They ended up today taking out the steps that fold out when you open the door and they had to build us steps, which they did out of wood, so we would be able to get in and out of the coach, nice steps too, I'll get pictures. Valley likes them better then the ones we have, much easier for her to get in and out of the coach. The only good thing with the coach not being done is now we don't have to pay for a storage place to keep it while we are gone, Camp Monaco does it for free. With the way the stock market is going, anything we can get for free is great.
Lee and Vicki are going to Epcot tomorrow and leaving their dog, Fleetwood,at a kennel all day and over night they wanted us to go with them but since we are taking Valley to the hospital/kennel on Friday for the next 2 weeks there was no way I could take her to a kennel tomorrow. I know she is just a dog, but I can't do that to my Grand dog. The pet hotel that Lee and Vicki are using is really neat, the dogs have their own room, complete with a bed and I mean a real bed, head board and foot board, the cost is $32.00 a night, would love to leave Valley there the next two weeks but a bit to high for our budget. Anyway, that's it for now, will write again before we leave Camp Monaco on Sunday and go to the hotel so we can be at the airport bright and early on Monday.

It's Monday night and I thought I better do a little updating.
Saturday once we got to the Monaco plant we met a really nice couple, John and Barb who are full timing now too. They have an Endeavor, a little older then ours, and when John saw us pull in he was really liking our rig. They came over and Dave gave them a tour of the place, they were really interested in the new tile we had put in. They have 2 cats that travel with them and tile is something that really interest them and they would like to do. Barb went back home to finishing cleaning and John and Dave started talking computers, John then brought his computer over and Dave was trying to fix the sound on it but it didn't work. Then they started drinking wine, Barb was still cleaning and I was laying out then Vicki and Lee got here, the friends we travelled with in Canada. We all ended up getting together and sitting outside having a good time and talking, at 5:30, dusk, the mosquitoes came out and we were covered in no time, everyone went running for their coaches. That was the end of that get together, here at the repair facility is a really big pond, unkept, and has signs of warning about the alligators so I guess that's why all the bugs.
Sunday, we went out to breakfast with Lee and Vicki and drove around town, came back and hung around a little bit then drove over to "The Villages", which is a retirement community, or I should say an over 55 community, you have to have seen the commercials on TV. They talk about golfing free for the rest of your life on the Arnold Palmer and Nancy Lopez golf courses and parties and activities every day. Well it is all of that, we went and saw one of their real estate agents who took us around and showed us some of The Village. 10 years ago it only have 16,000 people there, it has now grown to 68,000 and they are still building. Just about everyone there drives golf carts, and they have some pretty fancy ones too. I would like somewhere like that to live, I think, because of all the sports stuff and activities, but I would like it to be a smaller community. Dave, I don't think, would like anything like that, he's not really into sports, walking hurts his knees, he does OK on bike riding, OK, lets face it, Dave doesn't like to work out. I told myself when I hit 60 I'm done too, not that all this walking is keeping me in good shape, my legs maybe, but wait, isn't Round a shape???
Today, Monday, they came and took the coach at 7:20am and we didn't get it back until almost 4pm, long damn day. This is the 1st time that we have been at a repair shop and Dave isn't working, now he is finding out how boring it is sitting around all day. There is no place to walk to, these places are always in the middle of nowhere, only large highways that you don't want to walk on or ride your bike on, plus you have your dog the whole time so it's not like you can go places, its a law in Florida that you can't leave pets in your car, but somehow I managed to walk 23,664 steps today, When I told Dave he said "Jeri" you are constantly walking around with the dog, you never relax. That probably explains why Valley was not walking around with me anymore after 3pm and she was very happy that we all went out to dinner tonight and she got alone time. We went out for Thai food in the "The Villages" and after walking around a little bit and seeing some of the entertainment, Vicki made a comment that it reminded her of being in a Stephen King Movie, just a weird feeling, and she hit the nail on the head. Before dinner we had stopped and talked to a couple that live in "The Villages" and they raved about the place, kind of sounded like the Stepford Wife's, Stephen King like Vicki said.
That's it for now, I've rambled on long enough.

It's Saturday now and we are at a new location, we now are at the Monaco Repair Facility in Wildwood, Fl. We came a day early because Dave started worrying about getting an RV site to camp in. This place isn't like the one in Oregon we normally go to, this one doesn't have assigned sites. Some people where we were staying said you better not wait until Sunday because that's when the people with the Monday appointments show up, some said we would have no problems waiting until Sunday. We didn't want to take a chance so we came today, and there are plenty of spots open, will see how it is tomorrow. We only have water and electric here so it's almost like dry camping.
Wednesday we did go to MGM and boy was it crowded. The place was OK mainly eating places and shops everywhere, the rides they did, which wasn't many, were OK one that was great we went on twice. The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror was the one we went on twice. The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster with Aerosmith was great too. The Drew Carey Show was stupid, anyway, we hung out there until around 3 then headed back to Disneyland to ride the stuff we missed. It's a small world, 3D Movie and the Hall of Presidents. We didn't stick around for the fireworks again, we wanted to beat the crowd out of the park.
Thursday we cleaned the outside of the coach and shopped. We were going to go see the Space Shuttle off but they keep having problems with it, I believe tomorrow is the last day they can try and get it off or else they have to wait for January.
Friday Dave finished the outside of the coach and we got it ready for today's travels. Last night we got together with some people we met a year ago last March at the Monaco Repair place in Oregon. Gene and Bobbie, great people, we are going to spend New Years with them at the Thousand Trails park we were just at. They have been full time RV'ers for 12 years now, so I want to talk to them about it, how they stay busy ect. Dave is having a hard time with not having anything to do so maybe they will have some tips for him.
That's it for now.

Its Tuesday night and I'm finally getting to relax. Today was clean day, since it didn't get done on Saturday or Sunday. Sunday, we went to check out the town of Clermont, we went to breakfast then did the Farmer's Market, got a few things, not much. Drove around town a little bit then came back home, jumped on our bikes and went checking out the new neighborhoods that are being built around here. One section is called Motor Home Houses, wait till you see the pictures, when Dave gets them posted. They are houses with very large carport things attached and that's where you park your RV, they have sewer, water and electric hookups and you can even open your slides, very neat.
Like I said earlier, today was cleaning day and I started out with defrosting the freezer. I'm standing there with the hair dryer, for heat, and chipping away at the ice build up in the freezer and I look over at Dave and he is ironing. I started laughing and he says "what?" I said here I am in the freezer chipping away and you are ironing? He said don't even put that in the blog, yea right, not me. Then I went out changed the oil in the car and Dave was sewing. Just kidding!!! couldn't resist.
We did work together and cleaned the inside of the coach, Thursday we will start on the outside.
Yesterday we did the touring thing again and went back to the Kennedy Space Center. we went and saw all the things we missed, the Imax movie was great. After leaving we hit the Astronaut Hall of Fame Museum which was very interesting to see. We even went on 2 rides they have there, the "G" forces you hit were something I've never done before.
Tomorrow, we are hitting MGM, will let you know how it all turns out.

Today is my sister-in-laws birthday, Happy Birthday Trini, 63 I believe, and you don't look a day older then 50. (do I get bonus points now)
Today is Saturday and yesterday we did go to Epcot all day, we got there when it opened at 9am and got back to the coach at 2pm. We stayed home for 2 hours, had a snack, I walked Valley around then we got back to Epcot at 4:30pm. We walked really fast to the Candlelight Processional and Massed Choir Program, which is in the American Gardens Theatre. They have a guest performer every 3 days to narrate the story of the Nativity, which we got to see Neil Patrick Harris, (Doogie Howser, M.D., or the show How I met your Mother" Very good show. They had over 400 performers including band members, the show was amazing. The fireworks show was on at 9:30pm which was very good and then we got home about 10:30 pm.
SORRY MIKE, I'M EMBARRASSING YOU BY BEING A TOURIST, we will be stopping this. We are spending a lot more money each month then want we are getting in. So needless to say, this Xmas is going to be small. The stock market isn't helping either, it's killing us right now.
Today was kick back day, was planning on cleaning but it just so happened it was garage sale day at 1000 trails. So Dave and I went walking around looking at stuff, got golf balls and a flag to hang outside the coach. Then we went bike riding around the park to look at the other people trying to get rid of their junk, met some folks that told us about a car show in Kissimmee. We went there this afternoon and had a good time, Dave will post pictures later, but they had some really neat cars, plus old town Kissimmee was kool to see.

Behind again in writing, oh well.
Last Monday we went to Disney World all day, quite a few people there too. We did "fast trac" on some of the rides which was nice, after the 3pm parade we came back to the coach to walk Valley around and have a quick dinner then head back out to Disney World again. We got to go on the rest of the rides we missed, people were lining up for the 7pm parade so there was no one in line for the rides, which was great. We watched the parade, different from the 3pm parade, then the fireworks show then headed back home.
Tuesday, was hang around day and try and find a kennel to put Valley in for over the holidays, when we fly home. Most of the kennels here are at Vet. Hospitals, which surprised me. We drove around to about 4 or 5 of them, not cheap. One place we called but didn't go by was $70.00 a night, on the phone Dave said "we are talking about a dog, you know ruff ruff" they said yes sir we know but it's $70 a night. We found one close to the airport so we can pick her up 1st thing in the morning after we get back, if she lives thru those 2 weeks without me. If she breaks out in hives at least she will be right there with the vet.
Wednesday we went to the Kennedy Space Center, very long drive there, we went on the NASA tour, which is a bus that takes you all around the launch pads, takes you to where they put the shuttle together, and a bunch of other places you do get to get out and walk around too. The shuttle is suppose to launch 12/6 so it is already out on launch pad 39A, pretty neat to see. After the tour we didn't get back to the Kennedy Center until 3pm and with such a long drive we decided to just come back again next week. The tickets we purchased are good for 7 days, so maybe next Monday or Tuesday.
Thursday was hang around day again, did some shopping and I got to lay out in the sun. In the late afternoon the sun was out but it was pouring rain, very strange, kind of like Hawaii.
Today is Epcot day, so more later.

We have landed into a new spot today. We are now in Thousand Trails Orlando RV Park in Clermont which is like 13 miles from Disney World in Orlando. What a hugh park and very nice, nothing like the other 1000 Trail parks we have been to. They have normaly been way out in the hillsides with lots of trees and miles and miles from the city, this one is great. We got here around 11:30 and got all set up then Dave and I went out to lunch, it's Sunday and we missed our out to breakfast day because we were travelling. Anyway, when we got back I got to lay out in the sun then in the late afternoon Valley and I went walking. We chased some squirrels then we found an armadillo and started chasing it then it stop cold, I have no idea what armadillos do so Valley and I stopped too. I know pocupines through their needles but I have no idea about armadillos, will have to do some research on that. I had the map of the park with me but didn't bring my glasses so when I was lost the map didn't do me any good. I just knew it was 5:00pm and was going to be dark at 5:30 and I needed to find by way back, which I did, got back at 5:15 so I wasn't that far away. I thought Dave would be mad because we had been gone for 45 min. but NOOOO, he was still on the phone with the verizon girl working out problems with his phone and computer. I can't believe my husband has phone affairs right in front of me, he makes these little jokes with the girls, god the things you do when you get old!!!

It's Friday night and I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Dave's turkey and everything else he fixed turned out great. He thought the turkey should have been cooked a little less but it was still very good. He cooked turkey, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, stuffing, and we had rolls and salad. It was really good with lots of turkey left over, the rest of the other stuff we didn't save. Talked to Kim and Danny and Danny was trying to cook a turkey for the very 1st time, his work had given the employees one for free. We told Danny you have nothing to lose go ahead and try to cook one, well theirs didn't come out right. I guess they had gotten a turkey bag and it had torn on the bottom so the top half cooked but not the bottom half, he or they get an "A" for effort. So they went out to dinner somewhere.
We had rain here in Florida, which I guess they need, so it was a good thing it was Thanksgiving, because we just planned on hanging out anyway.
Today, Friday, we drove to Green Cove Springs, to see where the state of Florida thinks we live and pick up our mail, but they were closed. I wanted to get a picture of our mail box and say "this is our home" no such luck.
We came back, I got caught up on Desperate Housewives and Dave went and hit golf balls.

We are finally home, back in Florida where the state of Florida believes we live. We are actually about 29 miles away from where our mailbox/physical address is, so while we are here we might even go by on Friday to see if we have any mail. Where we are now is Starke, Florida in a KOA. Dave was able to find another campsite that wasn't all booked for the Holiday weekend. We will stay here until Sunday then head out for Orlando for Disneyland, Busch Gardens, ect. While here in Starke we will have Thanksgiving here and just relax, ride bikes, hit golf balls and give Valley a bath, plus I will work on getting my tan back. If you can't tell there is nothing close to Starke except Jacksonville, and that's just another big city 45 miles away and we need a break from big city's. Once we got settled in Dave found out from the KOA office that they are having a Thanksgiving Dinner at 2pm for $7.49 a person, or the steak house down the street is having a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for $10.99 but Dave has decided that we can cook our own Turkey dinner. Which sounds great to me love leftover turkey, so we headed out for Wal-Mart, which is a mile away, and we were lucky enough to find a 12 lb. turkey, looking for a 10 pounder but no luck. So tomorrow we will cook turkey, sweet potatoes, corn, stuffing, rolls and have a salad. There are 2 of us, if you count Valley 3, but I'm thinking we just might have a bit much on the leftovers, my refrig. isn't that big, will see what happens. Got to remember, Dave has never done a turkey on is little BBQ so we might still be going out to dinner somewhere. Will let you know how it turns out, anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Today we did the Fort Sumter tour, it was a 2 hour tour, a 2 hour tour. (get it) The weather didn't even get rough it was very calm and beautiful, high today I believe was 78 degrees. Back to shorts and tank tops, boy I really need to shave my legs. It was a 1/2 hour boat ride to the fort, 1 hour on the fort, then 1/2 hour back, and believe me that was plenty of time. Fort Sumter was the start of the Civil War, it fired the 1st shot on April 12, 1861, then it ended on February 17, 1865 that's when the Confederates evacuated. OK Enough History.
The fort was neat to see but pretty small, surprising they lasted that long. After that we drove to one of the plantations but no way were we going to pay $36.00 per person to have a tour, have seen enough history stuff and houses that we don't need to feed these places more money. Came back to the coach, I watched 2 out of 7 "Desperate Housewife's" shows I have recorded and Dave went to the driving range to hit golf balls, really was a nice day.

We are now in Charleston, South Carolina in an RV Park called Oak Plantation. When we got here we found out that the girl Dave had talked to on Saturday lied to him. She said it was 1st come no reserving sites, wrong not on Holidays. The park is booked up for the Thanksgiving week starting on Wednesday except for 3 back-in sites. So we checked out the 3 sites and none of them could we get computer and only one we could get the TV satilite to work, but that site was so small that once the slideouts were out you would almost be touching your neighbors. We said to heck with it, we asked for a pull thru for 2 nights will leave here on Wednesday and head towards Orlando Florida. We had reservations at a Plantation for Thanksgiving dinner but now I guess we will be parked in a Wal-Mart, somewhere, and eat what ever food they serve there, you know McDonalds or Sub-Way who knows. Enough of crying the blues
just kidding, everything will be just fine. Anyway, once we finally got set up today we headed for the visitor center in Charleston. We got the self walking tour map and headed out for a 3 mile walk. The historical sites were great to see, and most now are owned by private residents. I give them credit for buying one of those houses or buildings because you can't do anything with the outside of your place without their (historical society) permission, and what ever you do has to not change how it looked over a 100 years ago. You can change the insides anyway you want but the outsides must stay original.
Tomorrow, we are doing the history thing again, I don't need Kool-Aid, I've had enough of a break, we will go to Fort Sumter and then touring around some Plantations. That's it for now. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, just in case I don't write again before that.

Dummy me, I just realized that I start out with the date on my blog but the blog dates itself, on the top, hope that makes sense.
We don’t have computer service, as of this writing, so I’m writing this in Word and will post it to the blog when we get computer service. Dave is going to be hooking up his phone to the computers so we can check our emails, but we will be moving in a couple days to a place where we can get computer, TV, which we do have, and phone service. God knows we can’t live without those things, this is our house right now and we would require all of those services if we were in a house that wasn’t on wheels, so why not now?
We left North Carolina On November 14th and the next stop was South Carolina at an RV Park called “Barnyard RV Park” which was kind of a scary name, makes you wonder what you will see when you get there. We were in Lexington, SC right outside of Columbia, SC which is the Capitol of South Carolina. We went there; I think I mentioned before, to meet up with some people we had met last March in Macon Georgia. We had actually met them at the Holiday Rambler Pre-Rally right before the big FMCA Rally and boy were they surprised that we actually came by to visit them. People you meet at these things say they will visit you, but never do, so they were very happy to see us. Anyway, after arriving Wednesday I called Shirley and Fred and they came by that night to see all the changes we had made on the RV last May, (carpet, flooring, new wood work ect) and to see Valley then we went to dinner. On Thursday they picked us up and took us all around Columbia and showed us just about everything, I think, which was really nice of them. We saw Old Town, Court Houses, the colleges, basketball stadium, football stadium, which was really interesting because right inside the stadium parking lot are railroad cars, which people own and use for their tailgate parties. There were probably 20 old railroad cars, if not more, and Fred told us some of the people have converted them into bars. We then drove out to met up with Shirley’s brother, Bobby, and his wife Louise, which were also at the Rally and we had met last March.
Friday we headed out to Yemassee, SC to stay for a week, but we couldn’t get computer service because of all the trees so we went into Charleston to check out RV Parks there. We found one and will move on Monday to it and stay until next Saturday. We wanted to do more touring around Charleston and Yemassee is way to far away, so it’s a good thing we are moving.
Sunday we drove into Savannah Georgia and drove around old town then went and had brunch. We walked along the water front and checked out the stores and decided next March 2008 after the rally we are going to, to come back to Savannah and stay a couple days. One of the restaurants on the water was called “Spanky’s” which was in Italian place, we call my nephew “Spanky” and we are Italian.
Then we drove back to the coach and picked up Valley and brought her with us to check out Beaufort, another old city. We did a walking tour around checking out the old houses and the trees were unbelievable, you will have to see the pictures, when Dave gets them posted. Valley was only interested in the squirrels, and there were a lot, it was just a nice relaxing day. Tomorrow we head out to Charleston, hopefully I’ll have more exciting stuff to talk about.
When we got back to the RV on Saturday afternoon the guys who were parked behind us had left so we unhooked and closed up everything and backed up to their spot. You guessed it in that spot we got the computer to work but it was too late we had already decided to move to Charleston. Let’s just hope that when we get there tomorrow someone hasn’t already taken the spots that we had picked out. The park takes reservations but not on spots in the park, it’s 1st come.

November 14, 2007 today is another travel day, this time we are headed for Columbia South Carolina to visit some people we met last March in Macon Georgia at the FMCA Rally.
Yesterday morning Dave and I took off for "Mel's Diner" which his friend had suggested for breakfast, which was a cute diner. The corn beef hash was more expensive then the steak and eggs, so I thought, maybe, the corn beef hash is locally made, wrong, from a can, which I love anyway. Dave ordered the eggs and ham steak, best ham I have had for a long time. Most of the ham we get doesn't really have any flavor, so that's why I don't like ham, but this was really good. After breakfast we took off driving to Beaufort, which is in the beach area, the weather was in the 70's so back to shorts again. By the way, Beaufort is where Black beard, the pirate, used to live. Anyway, we drove around the beach area, walked some but everything is closed, until next spring. It was a nice drive some really beautiful houses and the area are amazing, it would be a nice area to live in. We then went back into town to the Pepsi Store where Pepsi was invented, had a soda at the soda fountain, then back to coach for packing up.

November 12, 2007 we have moved again and now we are in New Bern, North Carolina at a KOA. I must admit I believe this is the 1st time we drove to an RV Park and didn't get lost, even inside the park only because they guided us to our site, we didn't fight at all, boring, the dog was even shocked. We are here visiting a guy that Dave has known and worked with, over phone lines, for years. Bob has retired from Civil Service too and went to work for the company Dave use to work for. Bob came by about 3:30, we visited for awhile then he took us driving around New Bern. What a great place to visit, they are re-building the "Old Town" to look like the original way it use to look like in the late 1700's early 1800's. The houses are hugh and beautiful, they are even going back to cobblestone streets, very cool. One little thing of history, this is where "Pepsi Cola" was invented, by Caleb Bradham, a Pharmacist and it was first called "Brad's Drink" In 1898 and later on it was changed to Pepsi Cola, yea my kind of history.
We leave here on Wednesday morning so will have to update tomorrow night on the running around we do tomorrow.

November 11, 2007 today is Valentine’s Birthday, she is 11 years old now, plus it is also Kim and Danny’s 1st anniversary of when Danny proposed to Kim. OK enough about the kids and dog. We leave tomorrow so last min. running around today.
I’m not writing every day now because we have slowed down on our touring around, we can finally relax in a spot and take our time seeing things, tour one day and relax the next.
Recap of the last week:
I last left off on Tuesday morning, kick back day rainy ect. In between the rain Valley and I managed to get in about 2.5 miles walking. Dave did planning on his computer and I played with stuff on mine, later on we went into Gloucester to Wal-mart and did some grocery shopping and also started doing Christmas shopping. We will be flying back for Christmas so the stuff we buy we will have to ship back to Kim’s before leaving Florida. When we got back to the coach the rain had stopped and the sun was out, seemed like a good time to shave Valley. Dave had purchased a shaver a couple weeks ago, so it was time to try it out, Valley’s hair had finally grown back in and she was shedding again in the coach. When Dave was done with her she looked like a corn field that had just been plowed, poor thing, but it works. So that was Tuesday.
Wednesday we headed for Yorktown, we first did the Victory Center, which is where we saw a film, but then still had a 40 minute wait for the Ranger tour, so we went ahead and did the Battlefield Drive. We rushed thru the drive because we wanted to make the Ranger talk and got back just in time. The Ranger was very informative and I must admit the history stuff is starting to sink into my brain, but that’s about it, after it sinks in it sinks right back out again. 
Thursday, when we got up at 6am it was 32 degrees, when Valley and I went for a walk at 7am it was 31 degrees, darn it was getting colder. Valley and I had to keep moving fast so we wouldn’t freeze. When the walk was done Dave and I watched some of the shows we have been recording for weeks. In the afternoon we drove to Urbanna, where the oyster festival was and that town cleans up real well. I was hoping to find a good seafood restaurant for some “She Crab Soup” but they were all closed. I guess after the festival the town closes up, the biggest crowd that we could see was at a pizza parlor, we weren’t interested. We went back to the RV and hung out.
Friday, we went to Williamsburg, the place is hugh and there is no way you can see everything in 1 day so we got a two day pass. We got a tour of the Governor’s Palace then listened to some play actors doing an exchange between them. It was Patrick Henry, who was Governor at that time of Virginia, Treasurer Mr. Nicholas and a Jr. Delegate Capt. Woods. Starting at 2:30pm they have play acting at different locations for the next 2 hours.
Saturday, raining in the morning but then cleared up so we took off for Williamsburg again. Did more touring around there for a few hours and then we both decided we have had enough history to last a life time. I told Dave the next place I’m going to is Jonestown to drink some Kool-Aid.

November 6, 2007 Tuesday morning and it's cold and rainy. Today is a kick back day, give Valley a bath and a shave hopefully, but not unless it warms up some.
ReCap Time:
Sunday morning we ended up having breakfast right here at Thousand Trails, the last meal they were fixing until next March, the seasons done now. We got to look at the local newspaper and it reported that they had 100 thousand people at the Oyster Festival between Friday and Saturday, I told you there were tons of people. Last year they had 65 Thousand so this thing is really growing. After breakfast we headed into Gloucester, VA and walked around old town and checked out the visitors center. The lady there had suggested we check out Matthew too to see a small town that is really rural plus they have a lighthouse there we could see. We drove to Matthew, which was a long ways, and we didn't think the town was that small, well spread out though. While taking pictures of the lighthouse a guy on a kayak came riding in and had been out there fishing, caught tons of fish too. He is a school teacher in Gloucester and told us about Jamestown and Williamsburg, how to get there, things to see ect.
Monday we drove into Jamestown. We 1st went to Colonial National Historical Park Jamestown, hung out there for awhile. We then went to a glass blowing shop and watched the demos there then headed to Jamestown Settlement. This whole Jamestown thing is a really big deal right now because they are celebrating their 400 anniversary, remember the Queen came here back in April. Anyway, the Settlement we ran out of time to see everything, we should have gone there 1st. We still have to do Williamsburg and I'll tell you I have had enough history to last me the rest of my life. On our drive back I saw a sign for a Peanut Factory Tour, now that's my kind of history.