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Having recently retired we are fulfilling our long time dream. We began our camping life with a tent in 1969 adjusting as each of our three sons arrived over the years and gradually progressed to a 32' Class A in 2007. Even after our sons became too busy with their own interests, we continued dreaming over the years. The Louisville, KY 2003 Great North American RV Rally and the book "Movin' On" convinced us that a motorhome after retirement was really for us! In 2007 we sold our home and disposed of most of our belongings and awaited the wife's retirement on February 1, 2008. We were out in our first motorhome ten times in our first summer in 2007, with our grandson joining us eight of those ten times. Since he must stay behind with his mom and dad to continue school, we told him he can join us on vacations (by car or plane) anywhere we are as we travel the US. Imagine the history lessons he could acquire! However, Mom and Dad don't look at it that way, especially the flying. Fortunately we don't miss work one bit!! We just miss the friends there. We have many hobbies to keep us busy when we decide to sit still for a day. Hope to see you on the road.

Friday, July 15, 2011

ACTIVITIES AT MT. HOOD RESORT AND AT SANDY BAPTIST CHURCH

July 2nd we finally checked out the activities here in the park which included music with Charles Suniga and his friend on clarinet and sax. Young and old alike sang and danced along!! Even the dog got into the act!! After that, on Sunday we attended their outdoor service and picnic afterward. It was nice and the rain held off for us!! We sat with a two other couples from the church who we had not had opportunity to meet before and really enjoyed visiting with them. Jim and Karen were having a garage sale the following weekend so we went out to their house to check it out. Not much for a full time motorhome, but we did sit down and visit for a while again. They are very nice and we sure enjoyed the visit. The other couple, Holly and Doug, were also interesting to visit with. Doug is sure that come retirement time he will be ready to head south for the winter, however Holly is not so keen on the idea. She likes her four seasons and the green of Oregon. I should have told her that this life style is not for everyone. Sometimes we are so sold on it that we forget it is not for all. I remember our first visit with Harold & Judy and Bill & Bette from Ohio, who we met back in 2007. Harold's first question for us was if we had any hobbies. He maintained that the people who do not succeed with full timing are often those who do not have something to fill their time when not out sight seeing or driving down the road. I still like my quiet home life at times!! On to July 4th!! We planned on a pot luck picnic for the fellow workampers here in the park. However, since some of them still had to work and others left the park for picnics, there were only four of us couples for the day. But it was a great day of fellowship!! And we made new friends to boot!!
Now we just need to do it again, if it ever quits raining!!
Friday night Hawaiian Days Karaoke came along and we watched the youngsters sing along! I did not stay too long for that as I was not interested in the wording of many of the songs that they tried to sing. They had fun though.
Following the Holiday weekend, we looked forward to friends coming to visit. So check out those pictures coming up in our next Blog.
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