Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'.....

Well, maybe that should read "Crawlin', Crawlin', Crawlin'...."

Got the tow plate put on Zippy yesterday and towed it roughly 500 yards back to the RV place.  Woohoo....didn't hit anything, didn't kill anyone, didn't roll the RV.  All in all, it was a good day.

While I was waiting for Zippy to get fixed up, I took the Beast out for a drive.  It's getting easier but I'm still having problems with left hand turns.  Also right hand turns.  Curves in the road too.  I'm really getting the hang of driving down straight stretches though.  I figure I'll do really well on the prairies.  Too bad there are all those pesky mountains in the way (although I suppose going straight up and then straight down is still going straight).

Speaking of girth....

Prince Porketta and I have been making lists of places to go and things to do.  Seems that we're going to zigzag across the northern States, basically following the Diners, Drive-ins and Dives map.  We've even decided to go further south to Salt Lake City to try out the Aztec cuisine at the Red Iguana.  I was disappointed that there doesn't appear to be iguana on the menu, but I suppose that it is an acquired taste (tastes like chicken, or so I've been told).

Using even minimum calorie estimates, I figure that by the time we reach Grundy Lake, they will have to use prybars and a forklift to get us out of the Beast.  The good news is that, being round, we will roll really well.

For those wondering why I love Grundy, here's a pic of the view from last year's lot, in the early morning.  It shows the small island that I swim to a couple times a day.  After the DDD trip, I may have to up that to 3 or 4 times a day!

Oh, The Places You'll Go! (Dr. Seuss)... Need I Say More

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.  And you know what you know.
And YOU are the gal who'll decide where to go.

You'll look up and down streets.  Look 'em over with care.
About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

And you may not find any
you'll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you'll head straight out of town.

It's opener there
in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen
and frequently do
to people as brainy
and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen,
don't worry.  Don't stew.
Just go right along.
You'll start happening too.

OH!  THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!

Only 100 days to go!

I was so organized over the Xmas holidays.  I made a whopping "To Do" list, color-coded it, put deadline dates in and everything.  It's so pretty, I may have it framed.  It's certainly pristine enough....not a checkmark in sight! 

Here it is the end of February and I've accomplished absolutely nothing.  I know from experience that April and May are a dead loss:  we are prepping for "Festival Polynesia" and that takes up all of my weekends and evenings, and then some.  That leaves March.

I like deadlines.  As the man said:  "I like the sound they make as they go whooshing by".

Ah well....everything gets done, eventually.  Can't leave until it is :-)

So much to do.... so little time

The Prince and I are starting to plan the "Great Trek of 2012".  According to him, we are going to get back to Ontario with our pockets bulging with sapphires, opals, gold and casino tokens.  So far activities include:

- Geocaching
- Sapphire Mining
- Opal Mining
- Metal Detecting (and by metal, we mean gold)
- Sightseeing
- Tracking down Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

According to Mapquest, it takes 38 hours to travel from Vancouver to Sudbury.  We'll have 23 days to do it - so basically we have to travel 1.6 hours a day.  Whew!  Tough work!

The Woman's Guide to RV Maintenance

Lately, I've been getting advice on how to purchase and install tow bars and base plates for a TOAD (which BTW, is really a FROG... four rolling on ground) .  (TOAD actually means "towed on a dolly", which isn't going to happen).  I'm going to call Zippy (my car) a FROG because (aha!) it's green.

Unfortunatly, I  don't have any mechanical ability or upper body strength and am completely useless when it comes to installing things. I'd be terrified to see poor little Zippy flying off a cliff edge because I didn't have the strength to get the tow bar installed tightly.

I generally use the Women's Guide to Maintenance: if it moves and it's not supposed to, you use duct tape. If it doesn't move and it's supposed to, you use WD40.

Everything else I pay for.

Prince Porketta joins the team

Not physically, but in spirit.  For now....

His mission, should he choose to accept it, is to figure out where all Diners, Drive-ins and Dives are between Vancouver and Ontario.  He'll also have to figure out how many times we'll have to jog around the Beast to work off some of those meals.

The royal team of Prince Porketta and Nui, Queen of the South Seas, will be launching the Beast in early June.