Tuesday - Sunday morning, October 11-16, 2016

The Living the RV Dream Gathering

The Gathering was just as good as we knew it would be.  We have met so many fine people and we received good advice. Swapped stories both good and not so much.  The speakers have all been great. Of course ,John and Kathy Huggins were wonderful as always.  Jim and Chris Guld, better know as the Geeks on Tour, filled my head with so much information about our phones, google pictures and google maps.  If I can retain and use just a little it will be great.  Eric and Tami Johnson, Techno RV, gave us good information and shared with us how they decided to go on the road.  It is so interesting to learn about them.  Eric also took the time to get me straighten out with the wi-fi router.  I hope I can remember what he showed me.  Al Hasselbart shared his knowledge of RVs as the historian and I really enjoyed his stories from China.  I never connected China with RVing.  This year RVSEF gave a talk on tire safety.  They are also doing rig weighing.  I am glad to report that we were a little under in weight, we were well balanced and he told us we have a lot of tire (meaning they are very good tires).

That made me feel real good. Bruce has done his homework. We had pizza, breakfast, a cookout and a potluck.  John and Kathy did their weekly Podcast, Living the RV Dream, Thursday night.  It was a Q&A type program.  Bruce had the first question.  Who does their intro.  "It's time to sit back, strap in and throw it on Cruise Control."

There was a Chinese Auction for the Southeastern Guide Dogs. They also gave a talk and brought some dogs and an interesting client who told us about his life with a service dog.  Bruce and I volunteered to do a daily 50/50.  Proceeds also went to the Southeastern Guide Dogs, Paws for Patriots Program. There were a lot of very nice door prizes.  Of course I didn't win any, but they were very nice. We were entertained by Hurricane Wilson Friday night.

It was a very full and busy week ending on Sunday morning with a Church Service by Pastor Jim Hollis. I hope John and Kathy do this again.  We would love to come back.

Sunday Afternoon

Well, we tried to find a bar that catered to Redskins fans.  We actually found a Skins fan club not too far from here.  We went to Beef O'Grady's and were welcomed to join but the place was so packed that there was not a seat to be had.  We thanked them and went on our way.  Ended back at Geckos with our own TV and 2 for 1 well drinks.  Turned out just fine.