New Start for 2019

Posted on April 6, 2019 by landyachty

We have reactivated our blog and are starting anew.

We are currently serving as oil field gate guards in Encinal, TX, never heard of it neither has anyone else. You turn off I-35 (about 35 miles north of Laredo, TX) and immediately go onto the dirt (mud) road Alamo Rd for 5 miles to the middle of cactus, cattle, and rattlesnakes. Check out this map on google the blue dot is us. This is our home for the month of April. One of us has to be on duty 24/7. Since Encinal only has a Love’s truck stop and Family Dollar there is no place to go. The trip to either takes 25 minutes one way because of the mud/dirt road. We can find milk and eggs, diesel and Chester’s Chicken – but that is about it.

As implied we guard the gate here logging everyone in and out. After dark the gate is closed (or when the cattle get loose), but open during the day. Peggy works Noon to 9:30 PM sitting outside with the iPad tablet in hand, snake stick in the other waiting for traffic. She has her book, music, and phone with the US Border Patrol on speed dial!

Peggy’s hut rocking chairs, music, internet, fan, snake stick, shade, electricity, mat.

Jim works 10 PM til 8 AM. We share the other hours so one of us can do simple work projects. We have a generator for power, water tank, and black water dump tank

: Genny and water tank, we also have four LED lights (Note Peggy’s plant)

Our gate is not large or locked but simply a control point. Everyone has to stop and chat. We keep out those who don’t belong; and keep a log of trucks and people who are inside the gate. The log is internet live to Guard 1 management and the company doing the well. We actually have two operations going on here. The main is a large wet gas drilling operation about 3/4 mile from the gate, the other is a small work pad (1 1/2 acres) right behind us where they are building steel pipe and pulling it under the fence to the next property to be buried. This is a secondary operation but on a good day they weld and pull a few hundred feet of pipe.

There is a fence at the square hole and the land on the other side in another ranch.

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Night photo with the gate open. We have a second generator with a large light pole and four really bright sodium vapor lights to give us light 24/7 at the gate. Lots of unique critters and flora.

Cactus starting to bloom

Left Texas Bird of Paradise; Right Peggy’s buddy Road Runner (eats snakes)

Wild flowers which God made only for us to see.

More to follow in the next few days, we will also give a wrap-up of our projects with RVICS.ORG during January, February, and March

Whitehorse Northbound

Posted on May 29, 2016 by landyachty

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This is the picture we took at Dawson Creek, BC inside the visitors center.

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This is the oldest wooden bridge in Canada, just North of Dawson Creek. It was built as part of the WW II war effort for the Alaskan Highway. You can still drive over it in a large RV like ours, but walking was scary enough. It has a 9 degree tilt to the right to keep water off which is probably while it is still standing.

We love to boondock. It saves money, allows us to enjoy the beauty of the area, and is part of the adventure. Look at this view from where we parked for two nights.

Panoramic view of me fishing at Muncho Lake

I caught about 9 lake trout, my first. You can only have in your possession 2 of legal size. As it started to rain we kept this 19 inch girl. We should have kept another as it rained the rest of the day and I didn’t fish.

I cleaned the fish in the rain and the seagulls were there right away! We ate it for lunch as the harder it rained the more sloppy my filleting got.

This is the picture at 11 PM from where I was fishing. Last night I was still reading inside our RV at 11:15 PM with no lights on. Ole Sol starts showing his face at 3:30 AM.

These are the blackout curtains Miss Peggy made for our bedroom. They are from a scrap of dark green sunbrella from out sailing days. A little velcro holds them in place. DSCF0797

We went to the world-famous Liard hot springs. The British Provincial Parks worked very hard to build (and maintain) this facility. There is no road going the 1/2 mile to the hot springs, and all this material was brought in via ATV with a trailer!

If you notice the water is almost to my shoulder. I am setting on a stone bench they hauled in. Water is crystal clear.

Miss Peggy is sitting on a spillway they built to make the lower water 3-4 degrees cooler. Below she is pointing out that the area has to be closed from time to time so Yogi and Boo-Boo can use it.

This is one of the sources of the hot springs, and the water coming out of here could cook a lobster. Liard PP is one of the best maintained parks in BC.

Another picture of the sign forest at Watson Lake.

We added our own sign, the one in the middle. FL 488 NNJ with our names, date, city, and of course Landyachty.com

Every year someone even counts the number of signs, as they are put up randomly you have to start the count over each year!

One of the many black bears along the road, we have yet to see the brown (grizzly).

Looking out the window you will see the wood bison (buffalo) laying down in the grass. We even saw them standing on the road eating the grass.

You always have to be camera ready, at 50 MPH (we aren’t speedy) sometimes the image is blurry

Things we have missed on this trip:

Jif Peanut butter – Not in Canada, but they love peanut butter so there are real good substitutes.

Angel Soft Tissue – this shocked us, we will have a 9 week supply – maybe in Anchorage.

Western Salad Dressing – haven’t seen this since December, if we catch up with our friends Jim & Barb we may take their stash!

Sugar free items are in low supply but gluten free is available everywhere.

We love the variety of sausages and cold cuts, the seafood, fresh bakeries and of course poutine.

Very friendly and helpful folks at the visitors centers. Most people are happy to see us and help us with our stupid questions. Diesel runs 99 cents a liter so you do the math. We have paid over $ 1.80 a liter – but didn’t buy much! That’s about $3.75 a gallon of diesel, we had planned on a $5 average so we are happy.

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“Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God” Philippians 1:3

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We are back!!!

Posted on April 13, 2016 by landyachty

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After a number of months of no posting we are back to at least a weekly posting. We are preparing to leave for our Alaska summer trip in 10 days, for the next few days we will give a short recap of our mission work the first quarter of the year.

We spent January in Moreno Valley CA (see the previous post) Here are some of the pictures from our work:

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This is where the Indian women ground corn thousands of years ago!

While in the big Q we had the living/dining room windows removed, taken apart (double pane), cleaned and reinstalled. This is about 1/3 the price of new glass.

Arrival at Victory Ranch our first mission assignment.

We arrived in style with an accident – more on this later.

This is our team of four couples at Victory Ranch.

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Miss Peggy trying her hand at spray painting steel chairs.

Our humming buddies at Victory Ranch.

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We complete tore out a boys shower room (including the cement floor) to modernize everything.

One day we visited a large dairy farm.

Right after this was taken the cow in the right background gave Miss Diane a big kiss on the ear.

Miss Peggy and I visited the Palm Springs Aerial Tram for the two and one-half mile trip to the 8,000 peak. We have dinner up there and watched the sunset.

Miss Peggy and I visited the Palm Springs Aerial Tram for the two and one-half mile trip to the 8,516 peak. We have dinner up there and watched the sunset. This is the world’s largest rotating aerial tram.

There was snow at the top of the tramway! This is the highest elevation we have been at..

After leaving California we returned to Quartzsite for 2 days of R & R before moving to Glendale, AZ. nothing like exploring the desert.

After leaving California we returned to Quartzsite for 2 days of R & R before moving to Glendale, AZ. You never know what you will find while exploring the desert.

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The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.

– Proverbs 10:9

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On the Road to Maryland

Posted on November 21, 2015 by landyachty

Saturday November 21

Did I mention how happy we are to be back on our own? We stayed at Honeysuckle Farm RV Park for two night. We got in after dark (broke our own rules) but we didn’t get out of Franklin NC until 2 PM. The Passport America rate is $15 a night for full hookup, a good deal. The owner Mike was away while we where there so we just put our payment in the box in the laundry room used as an honor system for laundry. The park is a lesson in slow development. Mike is trying hard. 15 sites with full hookup, a laundry room, 2 shower/bath rooms. He has a pond for the use of guests, and even has 3 raised bed gardens with two holding new crop of leaf lettuce and the third under cultivation. He is trying hard but the park still needs lots of work. Grass was mowed and picked up, roads were gravel/dirt but usable. Great place for a 2 days stop over. Ten of the sites were being used.

View from across the pond.

We enjoyed our time at the Air Museum in Warner Robbins. It had great displays on the Flying Tigers and gliders used during D-Day. They had four large buildings, and the last we visited had many aircraft waiting for restoration where we could see the restoration going on – very interesting. We had a late lunch at Martin’s BBQ right across from the base where we had excellent BBQ.

We left Wednesday for Live Oak FL, and with the exception of missing a detour turn and going 1 mile on a loose one lane dirt road we arrived in fine time. We even stopped in downtown Live Oak and picked up our rental car at Enterprise.

That night we took our hosts out to dinner at Cedar River Seafood in Lake City. We all had the same special flounder and shrimp. Large portions but we have had better shrimp.

We left out at 9 AM the next morning with a lunch stop at Skippers Fish Camp in Darien, GA (N of Brunswick). We had planned for a light lunch, but couldn’t resist the last chance at fresh Georgia shrimp. Miss Peggy had a shrimp poor boy with sweet potato souffle. I had a bowl of crab stew with a small shrimp appetizer. Boy oh Boy are we glad we stopped. The shrimp were huge and very, very tasty. My stew was at least 50% real crab meat – no wonder this place is number 2 in the area, and right on the water with views of the shrimp boats!!

We spent the night at a Super 8 in Fayetteville, NC. This was a nice budget motel with a bonus of a well heated salt water indoor poor.

We had supper at Fuller’s Old Fashioned BBQ. I had eaten here a few years ago while on a mission trip to build a house at Bayboro, NC. Fuller’s philosophy is that if it doesn’t seem done – cook it another 15 minutes! It is eastern NC BBQ buffet at its best. Chicken done three ways, four types of beans, two types of okra. Good BBQ and soul food with 15 desserts. Miss Peggy tried the “pork in gravy” which she said was good but chewy.

After finishing it I explained to her why her chitlins were so tasty!!! (A first for her!!)

In the morning we left out after a simple continental breakfast at the Super 8 and fought the rain all the way to Mike & Kellie’s house. The rain won out as we arrived 2 hours behind schedule due to very heavy rain and accidents.

…give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

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Free at Last, Thank you Lord, Free at Last

Posted on November 17, 2015 by landyachty

Tuesday November 17

We have left Franklin RV Park without major incident. We both feel like we are out of jail. We loved the park, we loved the guests, we loved Franklin (didn’t get to see much of it). The owners are some of the most narcissistic folks we have ever met. We only got into the first week there before they violated our contract with them. A few weeks ago they said they would not pay us our final check – they did give us the final check.

We only got to go gem mining 2 hours, got to one event at the Smoky Mountain Performing Arts Center, got to 4 or 5 movies. We were simply tied to the park. The highlight of our being in Franklin was the fine folks at Franklin Covenant Church. We were welcomed with love, taken into two life groups (whenever we could both get away), taken into small groups, and enjoyed worship. Last Sunday dozens of people surrounded us during the service, prayed over us, and blessed us on our mission journey.

Our near future plans are, today we go to Live Oak, FL; park the fifthwheel at friends land, rent a car and start a two week 2,600 mile trip to see our kids, grandkids, sister, and mom. Mom was 90 last week!! We will spend time at each kid’s house and get together with most of the family the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We have to stop and pickup my custom made shoes on the way back to Florida.

Once in Florida we will have 11 days of R & R, finish a couple of projects on the RV, visit friends, and see our nieces and nephews.

Upon leaving Florida we will work our way out west (slowly) having to be in the southern desert mountains of California for a mission assignment at a Baptist camp. We will spend February and March another mission assignment in Glendale, AZ. Early April we will fly back and see the kids, and late April leave for Alaska.

Pray that all goes smoothly for us. We now are restarting our blog for new adventures lying ahead. Yesterday we went to the Air Force Museum at Warner – Robbins AFB. I spent too much time on my injured foot and am feeling that today.

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Peggy (AKA Wild Weasel) in the Wild Weasel Trainer)

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Jim in front of one of the Vietnam displays.

How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.

– Psalms 31:19

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We are back!!!

Posted on October 5, 2015 by landyachty

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After a number of months of no posting we are back to at least a weekly posting. We are counting down the days here at Franklin RV Park. We leave November 15 to go South, park the RV, rent a little rice burner car and visit my mom and all 17 grandkids. A 2500 mile trip. We will be so, so glad to be out of this park! The park is very lovely, the guests have been great, the area is great (we don’t get to see much of it), but working 24/7 for owners who don’t have a clue about RVing has not been fun. Enough said on this point!

We have done lots of different things the last few months.

Campfires five nights a week

We use lots of firewood every week, plus we sell wood. In April we were told some guys would come and split the wood. I guess the guys are me!!

Kamp Koffee Kickoff every Monday that Miss Peggy made the coffee cake for.

Kamp Koffee Kickoff every Monday that Miss Peggy makes the coffee cakes for.

We turn in between 10 and 11 PM every night we have a pavilion campfire.

Check out the flowers!

Potlucks to coordinate.

Can you believe we cooked 19 pounds of BBQ for Labor Day in our RV?

Can you believe we cooked 19 pounds of BBQ in our RV for Labor Day?

Labor Day 2015 This is the first time since the owners have had the park the place is full, thanks to Miss Peggy’s reservations skills honed over the years.

Labor Day 2015, we have had the best year ever for the park as far as sites sold.

We even had to dig for sewer repairs!

Lots of flowers for Miss Peggy to tend to.

Anything that needs to be repaired here is up to us. Electrical, plumbing, equipment, tree trimming etc.

Here are a couple of our recent projects on our fifth wheel.

This are was designed for a electric fireplace, it now has doors and…

…addtional storage space for can goods. The finished fiddles aren’t installed waiting a dry day to stain them.

Dinette that we don’t like.

Ripped out! Leaving ugly carpet.

Miss Peggy work out the kinks of the old carpet.

Carpet looking like new!

Damaged new table. Shame on UPS, it was shipped in a wood crate even! We now expect our new table to arrive 14 days after the damaged one came.

The rainbows (God's promise) still follow us.

The rainbow (God’s promise) still follow us.

We have thoroughly enjoyed our church family at Franklin Covenant Church and will miss them.

That is it for now watch for this coming weeks update.

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No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day

John 6:44

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What? Sunshine in Franklin NC??

Posted on April 26, 2015 by landyachty

Tuesday April 21

Well it’s not all sunny today? Still a few showers, but we mow and mow and mow.

One of Miss Peggy’s projects is to refurbish the two “RV Bus” decorations on the fireplace screen. They are made of copper, brass, & other metals, and haven’t been cleaned since they were installed 3 years ago.

Looking Nasty

After working on these about 1 hours a day for three days we are seeing improvement.

This is all hand work!

The pile of dirt isn’t getting much smaller!

We had a nice campfire tonight even though we only two guests. Recently retired teachers for a hiking trip leaving the hubbies back in Florida.

Friday April 24

The last two days flew by as we had sunny weather so it was outside work every day. Flower beds to weed, weeds to spray, mowing, trimming and don’t forget the bath house and pavilion to keep clean.

You can see me getting the tractor ready to roll.

Last week I moved two chairs from Glenville to our fifth wheel. On the left is the leather chair for our office in the fifth wheel, on the right is Miss Peggy’s glider with the mountain print fabric.

We have been looking for a ottoman to go with her chair, we have the fabric for it.

We have been looking for an ottoman to go with her chair, we have the fabric for it.

Babies R Us had a special deal that beat out Amazon by 50 bucks so we had to buy it. Speaking of purchases we had to buy this freezer. We have a very small location in the garage of the fifth wheel for a freezer. This one fit and it was on sale $70 off – that is 1/3 off.

The only drawback is that we will fill it up with sale items.

On Thursday I went to a real nice men’s group at Covenant Community Church and really enjoyed the guys.

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This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.- 1 John 3:10

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Mow, Rain, Mow, Rain, Got the Picture?

Posted on April 22, 2015 by landyachty

Thursday April 16

April showers bring May flowers – Right? – well they also make the grass grow like crazy. We were told the mow cycle is about every three weeks during the summer, well right now it’s about every 6 days! We have 6 1/2 acres of lawn, flower beds, trees, roads, and sites to maintain.

Ditches to maintain.

Horse shoe pits to refurbish.

After the morning showers were over, we started the mowing, only to the stopped by the afternoon showers.

Friday April 17

Guess what? Morning showers, mowing, afternoon rain! The object is to get it to look like this each week.

Peggy cleans the bathrooms at least once a day, everyone wants clean showers and bathroom – it is the mark of a well maintained RV park.

Each bathroom has two showers, today a guest didn’t turn one of the showers off completely, and of course the water hit the handles, splashed out of the shower and not only messed up that bathroom but migrated to the other bathroom. At first we thought we had another leak (this would be number 7 this month), but after tearing off the finished wood we only found it was migration.

Tonight we went to see the movie Paul Blart – Mall Cop 2.

Very Funny, I don’t know how a guy as big as Kevin James can move so much.

Ruby Cinemas, Franklin NC, has brought back the movie (for a second run) Do You Believe? If you haven’t seen this great movie, go out of your way to find it.

Saturday April 18

Guess what we did today? You got it mow between the rain drops.

Look at all the diffent types of fuel we have

Look at all the different types of fuel we have, diesel, mower gas, Lawnboy gas, Stihl gas, blower gas, chain saw gas and oils. Hope we can keep then straight.

We have a tiny office we work out of, but do most of the paper work in our fifth wheel.

The receptionist must be away right now! More media center than office.

Our main steed, the mighty Kubota Diesel. It mows, grades roads, thatches grass, pull stumps, plows ditches, and spreads chemicals and fertilizers.

If this lawn vac was any bigger we would have to rent it is own RV spot. You can actually crawl in and sleep in it.

I forgot the 30 ton log splitter, eat your heart out Tanya. Our fertilizer is on the back shelf.

This is how our sites look.

Sunday April 19

We got up and went to Franklin Covenant Church this morning. Friends Jeremy and Julie told us about this church. She and her friends did worship dance here on Easter Sunday. This is a very friendly church. After church we watched it rain most of the day and did paperwork.

This is what the rain is supposed to do, May pictures of Franklin RV Park last year.

Monday April 20

Guess what we did today? If you guessed mow between the rains you win the prize. Peggy got into weedeating. Because of the rain there are a lot of areas neither the tractor nor mower can get to – so we weedeat.

Lots of weedeating along our streams.

Of course we have guests in the park, so the cleaning keeps going on and on.

Cleaning supplies for everything!

We do enjoy our birds. We currently have five feeders in the park and dozens of birdhouses. The blue jay seems to push everyone out! This is from our dining room.

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“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Matthew 11:28–29

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Back Online in Franklin NC

Posted on April 15, 2015 by landyachty

We have been offline for two weeks and are now back. We had been using a Jetpack from Verizon for our internet needs.

Somehow I had something messed up and we ran out of “data” on April 1, also the internet at Franklin RV Park was not running properly — thus we couldn’t get out. Both are up and running now so we are back in business.

As most of what we are doing is boring work stuff we will be posting every 3-4 days.

Monday April 13, 2015

We still haven’t got our fifth wheel the way we want it as we are too busy getting the park ship-shape. Today we painted the second coat of paint on the horse shoes (4 sets), and we typed & laminated the rules for the following games:

Horse Shoes

Lawn Croquet

Rules of 9 Croquet

Corn Hole

Ladder Golf

Murbles

We also are getting the Checkers, Chinese Checkers, Frisbee, Farkle, LCR (dice game), and Mexican Train (dominoes). We had to get bean bags and balls on rope as some are missing. We are also getting the supplies for “Playing Card Bingo.” We plan on having fun this year. We went off to Dodge Packaging in Franklin to get some cups, plates and napkins for our events at the park.

I think we didn’t mention that Miss Peggy was the big winner at the Passport America rally in March. She won the game of Murbles (a $50 value) during a giveaway the last night and the storage bag is signed by the developer of the game!

Playing Murbles

Tuesday April 14, 2015

Today is a rainy day, thus inside work was done. We cleaning, inventoried, and organizing the buildings at Franklin RV Park. The buildings are the bath/shower & office, workshop (it is large), tractor barn (also large), and pump house. We also have a fuel storage shed and a cute (very tiny) unused shed that used to house the phone wiring and internet system. Everything in this park has been upgraded in the last few years. Water (which is great tasting), sewer, phone, electricity, cable, and internet are all in great shape and working well. As it was raining, I drove over to Highlands, NC to take some items to the owners and visit with them for a while.

We went out to FATZ Cafe tonight, they have a special for old geezers every Tuesday night. called Classic Tuesdays. Click on the link to see the menu. FATZ is a small 45 location restaurant chain in the Southeast. We have never had anything we didn’t love here. Miss Peggy had the:

CLASSIC COUNTRY CALABASH

Our signature fresh chicken tenders, marinated 24 hours, hand-breaded to order and perfectly fried, served atop red-skinned mashed potatoes and topped with white pepper gravy and your choice of signature side.

… and I had the:

CLASSIC CALABASH CHICKEN & GOLD RIBS

Baby back ribs basted with our Carolina Gold BBQ sauce and paired with our World Famous Calabash Chicken®. Served with our all-natural French fries.

The best part of the whole deal is that it was under 20 bucks with the tip, the portions are very large, and the servers are expertly trained! Needless to say we will be visiting FATZ again on a Tuesday as it is only 3 miles away.

Wednesday April 15, 2015 – Happy Tax Day

Today is a rainy day, we have used St. Brendan Isle mail forwarding service for years. Our 680th shipment from them was lost in the mail. This is the first lost mail since 1997. They do (for a short time) keep a scan of each envelope that we receive. They were able to email me a copy of these scans for the lost mail. I had 2 letters from Social Security so today off I went to the SS office in Franklin. When I got there my ticket was #23 and they were helping ticket #16. I don’t know why, but I was called next! We got everything settled in short time. After that it was off to the Bi-Lo grocery store. Bi-Lo has 214 stores in the south and Wednesday is an extra 5% off for old guys. We had some serious shopping to do, the bill came to $160 but with the specials, coupons, and 5% discount we paid $103. A good trip! We spent the rest of the day working on paperwork and reviewing old records from the campground. We received an email that Sonic sent us about 1/2 price cheeseburgers as it is tax day. We got cheeseburgers for supper. Sonic is kinda of an old-fashioned drive in with carhops on roller skates at many locations.

They have over 168,894 different drink combinations – I won’t name them all!

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I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

John 16:33

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Bad Travel Day To Franklin RV Park

Posted on March 28, 2015 by landyachty

We started out bright. and early on our trip north. We had a quick breakfast and headed north. We had only gone 2 miles when we ran into a six miles stretch of 15 MPH speed travel due to construction. Signs of things to come. We saw a bus on the side of the road with a flat. When we stopped for lunch the bus pulled next to us at the Flying J fuel station. He had some damage (minor) from the blow out. The driver told me he has had three blow outs on his fifth wheel in the last three years.

We are driving a lot more miles than we want to today – but we need to get from Florida to Indiana to North Carolina by April 1 – and in that order!

We were cruising along at 3:30 on I-85 about 40 miles south of Atlanta and BAM, the front left tire on the fifth wheel blew! Now the tire is a good tire so I figure it must have been something on the road. We were very lucky as there was a sizable area to pull over on the right side. Of course I was passing a slow guy (55 MPH) and was in the left lane. We started the slow process of calling the extended warranty folks and it looked like 2+ hours of wait. I got on the phone (it was 5:01 PM by now) and 2 referrals later we found a small family owned outfit that does road service. Our guy showed up at 5:30, and had the tire on by 6:00. We had minor body damage which I will repair later.

8-year-old spare mounted on trailer.

That is one messed up tire, but the tread is still top rate.

By the time we hit Atlanta slow traffic, we didn’t get north of the city until 7:15 PM, we planned on parking in the Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club lot in Gainesville, GA, get something to eat, and do some serious shopping. Guess what – NO RVS ALLOWED signs everywhere! This isn’t a national Wal-Mart policy, so it must be something local. They lost our business for food, groceries, and gifts!

I was running very low on fuel and it was dark by now, we drove east a little and saw a very big lot shared by Goodwill and Rent-A-Center. Miss Peggy went up to the Rent-A-Center store and begged help from the manager. He called the local police and told them he okayed us to spend the night. It always pays to be married to a good-looking Redhead! We walked to KFC for supper at 9 PM, we unhooked, and Miss Peggy guarded our home while I went for fuel. After fueling we settled in for the night with no slides out and 31 degrees outside.

We started out early, got a breakfast sandwich with a walk to Burger King and hit the road. We finally pulled into Franklin RV Park at 10:30 AM. It took us 1 hour to get into the tight site for the host, but we did it. We arrived at Enterprise Rental Car 15 minutes before they closed and our car was still out on rental! All worked out okay. We went to lunch, grocery shopping, and to K-Mart (still mad at Wal-Mart). Back at the RV Park we moved the fifth wheel over about 14 inches to the left and started to settled in. Miss Peggy went to do laundry. BTW it will be 17 tonight, and there was snow on the ground when we opened the gate at the RV park! So we had to drain the RV of all water before bed tonight. (and we were in Florida yesterday???)

The old sailor is ready for business.

Hung out the “Camp Host” sign.

Yes the back of the trailer is about five feet off the ground – welcome to the mountains.

This will be our home until November 15. We are getting up early in the morning (before the sun is up) and off to Indiana. When we get back I will be shopping for a tire replacement amoung other things. The RV park will open up the day we get back. It looks great, but there still is lots of work to do.

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Let marriage be held in honor among all…”

Hebrews 13:4

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New Start for 2019

Whitehorse Northbound

We are back!!!

On the Road to Maryland

Free at Last, Thank you Lord, Free at Last

We are back!!!

What? Sunshine in Franklin NC??

Mow, Rain, Mow, Rain, Got the Picture?

Back Online in Franklin NC

Bad Travel Day To Franklin RV Park