Keeping The Windmill Alive – April 2025

Took the wife for a ride and dinner at Applebee's yesterday. Was a nice day with good weather and good steak.

Went to the dentist last week, no fun.

Washinngton, DC to Elkins, WV

We just acquired a "new" trailer. For the past 10 years we've camped across the US and across Canada to reach Fairbanks, AK using a little teardrop trailer. We loved it but we're getting older and my wife wanted something she could stand up in to dress, something with a place other than the bed to relax when it rains or snows, and something with it's own toilet so she didn't have to trundle down to a campground toilet.

We were looking at an Escape trailer made in Vancouver. I specced out what I wanted and a 19' trailer was going to be north of $56k. Ouch! For a 19' trailer??? My wife found one that's only 5 years old, has almost all of the mods I wanted and a number of them I hadn't included in my spec due to the cost. It was "only" $35.5k. We jumped in the truck, traveled from northern California to New Mexico, and bought it. Now all of a sudden I need to include "different" types of sites in my searches for places to stay. In the past we avoided anything with hookups, etc. but now I need larger sites, dump stations, etc. Guess I need to check out some new POI files. Surely there are some here with the info I need.

Happy Monday to all.

Looks like it’s Monday again. Have a great week.

because that's what's calling my name.

for another week

Getting some yard workover today and get rid of a patch of the neighbor's yard.

turning

Going for breakfast IHOP

Going out for a bit of grocery shopping!

Had to spend an entire morning at a job site.

Recovering from fume induced headache.

A couple of welcome rainy days in north central Texas. taking the opportunity to go through my cars, removing junk I don't need and making sure I have the things I should

Summer in April!

nothing

Planning a new trip.

Baltimore, MD to Norfolk, VA.

Got my first all day trip since the accident planned for Sunday...and what am I doing....?

Going out to verify a bunch of possible speed camera locations. Oh I have such an exciting life.....NOT

78 in NYC yesterday. Had to go to the Dr yesterday. It was really warm. It felt like the summer.

hello

just a few nice warm days and boom flowers and fruit blooms on trees raspberry's starting on the bush had some fresh asparagus ! its seems everything is doing good fig tree has little figs pear tree is loaded strawberry blossoms are all over, now the work begins its off to Lowes for slug bait cow poop, have to cut some lilac's for moma

Took some recycle batteries to Battery-Plus and lost a new pair of prescription glasses. Not a good day.

Perkasie, PA, odd place for us, and encountered some red light cams on the trip that didn't seem to have alerts. Again, my wife said she cannot understand why I would even care. Her logic--how many tickets have you ever gotten before?

Answer: 1, in 2002. lol

p.s. I looked up the first one and it went active 3/14/25, and is still within the 60 day written warning grace period. I will see what I can find and email the mods.

p.p.s--Bingo!! Both RLCs are in the same township, and both are new as of 3/14/25....

Waiting for summer

went to NW Phila, then Cherry Hill, NJ.

A tree fell across all lanes but one, of 76E. Amazing nobody was hurt. This is when poor driving really comes out, with folks passing everyone on the shoulder, or exiting and reentering to bypass traffic (road design should prevent this but it does not). Never seen these tricks deployed except in PA. Very strange. Doesn't work in NYC or DC.

Have an appointment for truck maintenance at 10:30. Need to go to Costco for a prescription refill. The excitement is boundless...

Hope that our choice of a new government will be better than ?.?

Baltimore, MD to Dover, DE.

Congratulations on getting your new trailer! I don't know how far you are from Arizona, but AZ has some nice State Parks that offer a 'good bang for the buck'. Most of the AZ state parks have full hookups minus sewer connection; but they do have dump stations. We sold our 19 ft trailer about a year ago because of health issues (wife and I are 90 and 87. We've been RVing since the late 1960s in every type of RV ... it's a shock to the system to abruptly stop!)

Enjoy your new trailer. Do what you want to do while you can 'cause there comes a time when you can't.

RT

Tuesday. Kid's appointment to get braces had to get cxld, they have PSSAs.

I'm already looking forward to Sat. when we head up to Oaks for hockey.

Therapy for the week

Just flew back from Florida yesterday. Hadn't done Disney in years but my coworker used to work for them so we did three parks for free in one day. Now I need a new set of feet!

AccuWeather is predicting a hotter than normal summer.

Severe Thunderstorm rolled through this morning, another 2 inches of rain. Blew over all the trash containers along the road waiting for pickup

dropped two cars at different repairers, walked back
NOT a brilliant idea, walking is further than I remember

I am officially old, when I stumble people don't laugh, three ran to help
If I were still young, they'd laugh

I drove to see my daughter and her family. And my granddaughter.

Dropping off someone at the train station.