I bought my RV today!

I finally found my home for Belize In St. Augustine FL! I pick it up on Friday. The owner currently has it connected to his sister's house and uses it when he comes down from NY. So he has to disconnect all the plumbing and electrical, unload his personal gear, and give it a cleaning. Friday he's going with me to the Tag Agency to make sure that I don't have any problems registering and plating it and he's filling the 2 30lb propane tanks for me.

My son Richard and I made a few stops on the way back from DC today to look at RVs I'd seen on Craig's List while we were away. I had 4 that I was interested in. The 1st turned out to be sold while we were driving down to Jacksonville where it was housed. The 2nd was in St. Augustine and I was pleasantly surprised when I saw it. It's a 22' 1994 Catalina that has been well taken care of over the years. It sleeps 6 with a queen size bed as the master, a nice size fridge/freezer and it even has a solar panel to keep the 2 12 volt batteries charged that run the fridge, TV/DVD, and all interior lights. Most come with 1 battery but this owner added a 2nd for extended life. I already have a gas generator that I can use for the A/C if I ever use it. So that's one more load off my over-worked mind. I truly seem to be working harder than when I was working. But now it's for me and not a big corporation.

I have lots to do to get my retirement medical/dental benefits and finances set up so I spent a few hours on that today and hopefully will finish tomorrow. I do plan to get in some bass fishing in the morning if it isn't raining. First things first ya know!

Saturday I'll start loading the RV with my stuff and get it ready to head for TX and then south of the border. It's time to contact my relatives and set up a visit schedule too. I'm hoping to leave soon after November 1st. Houston, Dallas and Phoenix here I come! I'm thinking about a couple of days in New Orleans getting my fill of Cajun cuisine on the way though...

Back from vacation

Richard and I got back home to Winter Park around 4:30pm today. We had a great time touring Gettysburg and Petersburg battlefields and Washington DC and ate a lot of awesome seafood in DC.

It was both our 1st time visiting Gettysburg and it was an exciting experience for me. Living in Alpharetta I had the opportunity to visit numerous battlefields in GA, AL, and TN but none of those sites held my interest like Gettysburg. I still haven't spent the amount of time I would really like to there but at least I did get there. I'm sure that you know I'm into the paranormal and have had several experiences of my own. Gettysburg is a place where I would have loved to spend the night sitting in one of the battlefields with a tape recorder... I did get some eerie pictures at Little Round Top though. And only at that site and none of the others where I thought I might since they had vastly higher mortality rates like the Wheat Field and the peach orchard. All of the pictures at Little Round Top had multiple orbs floating in them and 1 had a mist. And I took the pictures with 2 different cameras and Richard took 1 of the pictures so I know that it wasn't a camera issue. We took the pictures at about 3pm in the afternoon too. Nothing was visible to us until we started looking at the pictures on the cameras. We both looked at each other and got goose bumps! It wasn't until a couple of days later when we finally downloaded the pictures that we could really see them. I posted them on my Facebook page for everyone to see.

In DC we wandered all the normal outdoor monuments, I spent about an hour at the Vietnam Wall talking to friends who's names are honored there and shed a few tears with I vet that I met that was there the same time (he was only there a year though) and in some of the same places. On Monday we did the Capital tour and then finished the night at the Jefferson Memorial with a wonderful sunset. Marine One (well not actually Marine One since the president wasn't aboard) flew by several times on what I can only assume was a flight training. Lots of people snapping pictures of it. We left about noon on Tuesday to be home today so Rich could get back into his normal sleep routine since he works 9pm-6am. The vacation had reset his clock and he needed to reset it so he wasn't falling asleep answering AAA help calls on Thursday.