Indiana

After a nice visit with the kids we spent a couple of days with our friend Barbara. We had a great time. Then it was on to Amish country in Indiana. We are now in Wakarusa, IN. waiting to get the work done on the motorhome. We will be here till the weekend anyway, camping is free!!! While we wait we have been traveling around here a bit. Went to Notre Dame campus and walked around one day.

Then we went to the Studebaker car museum. That was pretty cool.

Today we toured the Monaco factory to see how the coach was built, did the laundry, then to the library to get on the net. We will be here for a few more days after we get the work done on Wednesday then off to Michigan.

That's it for now

Duane and Louise

Ohio

We spent 3 days in Cincinnati visiting with our daughter Stacy and her partner Carrie. Had a great time with them. Plan to meet up them again in Canada for a little fishing in August. We camped at the FMCA camp grounds, very nice and it was free!!
Then it was off to Troy, OH to visit daughter Rachel, her husband Benji and the grandbaby Madeleine. We took a trip to the zoo and had a blast.
Then off to Richmond, IN for a few days to visit our friend Barbara. Next stop, the factory to have a few things worked on in the motorhome.
That's it for now
Duane and Louise

Kentucky

We left Denton, Texas on Saturday and arrived at Mammoth Cave National Park on Sunday night. We toured the park on Monday. We took a cave tour and a driving tour-- pretty cool. That evening we went visit my brother Dean, had a good dinner and good chat. Tuesday it was work around the coach , install shoe storage and general cleanup. Then it as off to Cincinatti on Wednesday. We will meet with Stacy and Carrie tonight, leaving on Saturday for Troy.

AND WE"RE OFF

Well sort of....... We left the rv park in Waskom on Sunday morning, got about half way to Jeremy's house, blew a tire on the left inside dual. We had sensors put into the tires about 4 weeks ago to tell us when a tire went flat..... they worked...... pulled into a rest area, got out to check the tire, sure enough FLAT. I called our emergency road service, they called me back to tell me they couldn't find a tire on Sunday, we would have to wait till Monday morning. About 8:30 they called to tell me they a had a man on the way, be there in one hour. 2 hours later he showed up, it's a southern thing I think. lol He got the tire changed and we were on our way. When he changed the tire we found the sensor had broken on one end. I had to call Campers World and make an appointment to get it fixed before we left Texas. We got to Jeremy and Jennifer's Monday about noon. We spent the next 4 days moving stuff around in the coach for the big journey.

On Friday morning we left for Denton, Tx to get the sensor fixed. I had a 2 PM appointment and plans to start back east after the fix. Well as you might guess, they got done at 6 PM so we drove about 10 miles up the road to a rv park for the night. We will leave in the morning and head towards Ohio. We plan on going to Bowling Green to visit brother Dean, then to Cincy to Stacy and Carrie's for a few days. The back of the jeep is full of stuff to dropoff there. From there to Rachel and Benji's for a visit.

That's it for now
We are off

YEA !!!!!!!!

Went to the doctor today. I was told that I could do whatever I wanted to as long as it didn't jostle me around to much. He said I could get back to exercising but not to lift anything heavy yet. He gave me a letter to carry with me to give to a doctor in another town so I can get a CT scan on the road. I have to have one every 3 months for a while. I called GM and I have to go in to the plant on Friday to sign my retirement papers, then we can do whatever we want to.

We are planning to move the coach over to Jeremy and Jennifer's house for a few days to finish getting things ready to travel north. We have to do some rearranging so things travel better, remove stuff and add some other stuff. We will probably head to Ohio first either via Illinois or Kentucky, not sure yet. Hopfully we will be on the road sometime next week. I am awaiting a call from the factory to tell me when I need to have the coach there to correct the satellite issue. After that it's Canada in August to go fishing with Stacy and Carrie, then to Ohio for Madeleine's 2nd birthday.

I SURVIDED !!

I had my surgery Monday. The doctor said that it was cancer, but he was able to remove it all. I have to go for a check up next Wednesday, then a ct scan in 3 months. Doc said I should be ready to travel after my check up. He is going to write a letter so I can get the ct scans out of this area.
If everything goes alright at the the checkup we will start getting ready to hit the road. We have to do some rearranging in the mh so things travel better. We have to gather up the things we are taking to Ohio and figure out how to haul them. I figure we can be on the road by the second week in July.

Getting ready

We went to Denton, Tx to Campers World this week to have the washer/dryer installed in the coach. We also had a new braking unit put on the Jeep and had pressure sensors put in the tires so we can monitor the tire pressure. We had a flat on the Jeep last year and didn't know it until someone flaged us down on the road to tell us. I said then that when we started to travel a lot we would have the sensors installed, job done.
Monday is the big day, I get cut on. Wish me well. If everything goes the way it's suppose to, we should be on the road by the 3rd week of July.

Good News Bad News

Lets start with the good news. I was told today that I will be released from work on June 30. We can finally start making plans for our travels. We think we will be heading up to Indiana first to have some work done on the satellite if I can get an appointment at the factory. Then to Canada to go fishing with Stacy and Carrie. Then to Ohio for our granddaughter's birthday.

Now the bad news.... I have been diagnosed with cancer on my right kidney. I am going into the hospital Monday the 19th to have it removed. The doctor said he is 90% sure he can get it all with laparoscopic surgery. If everything goes alright I should be up and ready to travel by the second week of July. I won't know about what follow up I will need till after the surgery.

That's the good and the bad of it. I will post again as soon as I can sit up to type.

At Caddo Lake

May 29, 06

Well here we set waiting for GM to let me know when I can leave. I have been trying to get them to give me a date for the last 2 weeks, they are NOT cooperating. Hopefully I will know something soon.
The Texas kids all had things to do this weekend. Louise and I went fishing one day, geocaching one day and sat around working on sorting pictures and putting them on cds so we can find them better. Real exciting huh. We had a good time.
The weather today is great, breezy and not to hot. I'll post the dates of our travels as soon as I get a release date from GM. Hope it's soon.

Our new home

We are parked near Waskom, Texas till I retire, which we hope is the end of June. The first place we will be heading is Arkansas to do a little fly fishing, then to Indiana to the motorhome factory to have a few things done to the coach. We will be in Canada in August, Ohio in September, Georgia in October, Florida in November, then who knows. That is the plan, if it all works out, we'll see.

We have done it !!

We have sold the house and moved into the motorhome. I should be able to leave work the end of June.