Daily observations of my simple life.

Travel'n On My Mind:

We had a wonderful rain night before last. Next morning just a bit of frost but a beautiful day.  In and out of the house but my big project was changing curtain rods in the slide-on camper. Don't laugh. First I had to go into my old motorhome that is no longer usable and take out the curtain rods. I'm not much of a screw driver person. Took awhile and since I had to climb up in the overhead bed to undo them that was not a usual posture. Finally got them out then had to go into the slide on and put them up. Again up in the overhead bed I felt like I was standing on my head getting those curtain rods up.  I will use the old curtains from the camper in the slide on until I can make new ones. Think they were made from Martha Stewart tableclothes, grin. Green check/plaid. I washed the curtains and an old comforter from the camper. Today I will clean again, in the  slide on. I'm going to do an over nighter, probably to Quartsite. I like to go there late in February as the crowds are down and the hikes in the desert are fun. I have a campground out there where I built a rock patio. If someone else is not there I will park there. Found that others like my patio, though. 

After I came in for a while to rest I picked up my mail. There in my Aarp magazine was a story of a family I saw a short clip about on a surfer show. He is a doctor, graduating from Stanford who decided he really wanted to live life. Together with his Mexican/Indian wife they raised 9 children traveling in a truck camper. He loved to surf so it was mostly camped on beaches. He doctored migrant workers and native Americans.  I love to read about lifestyles like that. Don't know if he had some kind of trust fund or not but they lived simple. There is going to be a movie about him. He has a book. Nice pictures of his family on the web page.

web site.  www.alohadoc.com

Sure does make me want to take off in my camper. I'm going to have to do a real search for a trustworthy person to stay with my tribe of critters. 

Posted by: cactusandquail at 16:03 | link | comments (6)

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#1  21 February 2007 - 22:11

 

My first camping trip with my daughter, L, in her old Toyota extended cab was nearly a disaster, but, of course fun. Suffice it to say, she had carefully sewed velcro onto the bottom of some fabric cut to the height of the windows in the back of the truck - it had a cover - but didn't install the tape until we got to where we were going to stay - in the parking lot of a large hotel. It was very foggy and the velcro sticky didn't hold and by morning, the curtains had fallen. Fortunately, it was so foggy and that included inside, that noone could see in.

mafidl

#2  22 February 2007 - 01:36

 

That's why I don't use velcro. I've tried it and it always seems to come undone at the most embarrassing times. : )

cactusandquail

#3  23 February 2007 - 11:40

 

spring fever springs anew

you should get out on the road, even if only for an overnight

InMyLife

#4  28 February 2007 - 17:43

 

I'm moving my blog over to Yahoo 360 for now as I'm having problems logging onto this blog. My main computer is down and I'm using my laptop. Cactusandquail a 360
I've had problems with this site from the beginning. Will come back when I have my computer up.

Anonymous

#5  18 April 2007 - 17:33

 

My other blogs:
http://www.360.yahoo.com/cactusandquail
http://www.simplelvn.blogspot.com
I post pictures there on a fairly regular basis.

Anonymous

#6  02 May 2007 - 21:45

 

Are you off in your camper adventuring? I wait with baited breath to hear of your lovely animals and hopefully of your travels through dry but lively deserts.

behindtheblink

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