By now, my guess is that some of our readers are wondering… What in the world is the thought process behind their thinking!!! The truth of the matter is, is that we are in our mid-fifties and retired! But, what is one to do? Plenty! But, we didn’t want to fall in to the routine of many RV’r friends we know, who seem to always follow the norm! We just had to be a little different because, it’s more about the adventure than the destination!

In this journey of ours, every mile is a memory. It’s all about experiencing life to the fullest. Some would say it is to slow down and smell the roses, absolutely! That is exactly what we are doing. Most folks challenge themselves to see how many miles they can put behind them before their next stop. It’s about how many hours we can put between us and the next time we are on the road again. To slow down, enjoy each day, appreciate the little things taken for granted that surround us.

Not so long ago, we spent 8 days in the Everglades in Florida! Total disconnect from the outside world. Once you separate yourself from daily routines, you get gladed. That is a new term for me but It is so true. Being gladed is when you finally realize how wonderful it is to slow everything down around you. It’s almost like imagining a humming bird in slow motion! You start to see life that exists in a whole new world within your own.

It’s about T-36 until we launch. Well, T-35:40 to be exact.

On the last day we just have to cram as much frozen food into the freezer as it’ll hold and cram as much defrosting food into the fridge as it’ll hold, then on Thursday morning we just have to cram our fat butts aboard and light the candle.

It’s been spooky…thanks largely to DW’s efforts there hasn’t been that much to do. So between spasms of Eternabonding and POR-15 painting we’ve just been taking a bag or two of stuff and putting it away. We’ve been sitting here piddling around on the World Wide Waste of  Time thinking that there’s _something_ we should be doing…and there’s not. All’s proceeding according to plan.

Maybe that’s what’s spooky.  We’ll probably encounter a boobquake or something.

Speaking of Eternabond, that’s some voodoo stuff. We sealed the cabover a day before getting four inches of rain with 50kt gusts…and the cabover is no longer leaking. That it’s a mass of Eternabond and 3M 5200 is beside the point. Water is no longer going in and coming back out. And yes, I’ve thought of installing a bilge pump up there.

Packing…neither of us are clothes-horses. Shorts and T-shirts and we’re good to go. Beryl Smeeton said “If we have to go somewhere dress-up we simply won’t go.”

As some of you may have guessed by now, we do like to imbibe a little and there’s not a whole lot of stowage space in Miss Lueffie. So we have wine in the basement, wine under the fridge, wine beside the furnace, wine beside the water heater…well, you get the picture. That we won’t be able to find it when we want it will just make life more interesting.

Since the tag is Random Thoughts I can be random, right?

There’s a TT around back of our park and the owner has a 25-pound Danforth anchor on a chain stretched out towards the street. I haven’t asked yet and I’m not sure I want to. Besides, I’d use a CQR, and we don’t want to get into that debate do we.

T-35:20 now.

Well, we couldn’t stand it so we moved up our departure date to six days from now. We’ll be spending a couple of days at Lake Louisa SP.

Been Eternabonding today. I don’t know if we’re keeping water in or out but it won’t pass that barrier.

-C&J-