Life keeps walking between this blog and my fingers! Here is a bit of catchup.



The Allegro Bus arrived from FL in Franklin, TN on April 10, 2011. It first took us to Brunswick, GA for 5 days of recuperation at Coastal GA RV Resort in Brunwsick from our intense winter schedule at Holiday Travel Resort. There we help manage the computer and volley ball season.

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Next we were on to Gaffney, SC to Freightliner for our usual engine service. On our trek west we stopped in Dandridge, TN to visit with cousins Ruth Morgan and Katherine McNeil and husband Paul and friends Janie and Danny Noe.

Arriving at home meant picking up the recovery process from our flood on May 1, 2010. This slow process has resulted in acquiring some furniture and getting some pictures on the walls.

After much rain Roxie finally had time to spend in the yard which was not groomed in summer 2010 because of constant reconstruction demands. Vinca Minor benefited greatly from a flood but we lost 4 small evergreen trees in our Evergreen Forrest. In May we had the 13 year cicada screaming in our ears and leaving their earthly shells everywhere. They were only harmful to young trees. For our greys and beagle they are a delicacy!



May brought us driveway company! Jim and Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.com are RV fultimers and computer educators. Check out this couple’s site to see their many opportunities. While with us they presented a webinar live to LazyDays Campground and Sales Center in Seffner, FL teaching Facebook right from our driveway!

At the end of April we drove to Jackson, TN to Lambuth College (University’s) final graduation.  Roxie was among those presented with the last ever 50 year medallion of the college.  This 168 year old school was slowly choked to extenction and closed forever at the end of June 2011.  Roxie’s dad had taught there 19 years.  Roxie, at age 6, began growing up on Lambuth’s Campus.  With the help of a Lambuth Vice President she was able to claim her father’s oil portrait presented in 1989.  It now hangs in our home.

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We left home on July 5 intending to arrive in Essex Junction, VT. Charles was to direct the Frustrated Maestros at the North Eastern Area Rally…NEAR! We had reluctant levelers that Charles and neighbor Ben and the Tiffin call line helped retract with much effort. Deciding to live with unlevel for 2 months we started our trip stopping at the KY Horse Park Campground. While parked unlevel we were just annoyed. The next day as we started toward VT the refrigerator produced a familiar ammonia leak. This we had experience with in our 1998 bus. Up into WV we decided to purchase a small Home Depot refrigerator and fulfill the obligation to let Charles direct the Fustrated Maestros. Finally we realized we were doing the impossible. Reluctantly we gave in, made phone calls, and headed south to Red Bay, AL to our Tiffin Motor Home plant and repair for six days. We were able to have our jack replaced and a new refrigerator installed.


We traveled the Natchez Trace Parkway from Red Bay to Franklin again regrouping our thoughts and plans. After 5 days at home we had a new route planned, food restocked, grass mowed again and a visit to Lucky beagle’s doc for an eye infection.

We are now on the way to Madison, WI for the International FMCA convention and Charles playing with the Frustrated Maestros.  Before we get there we will visit with our FL park friends, Jim and Connie Moore, in Monroe, MI. 

With not enough time to drive from TN to VT we planned a stop at a COE park in Carlyle, IL for a few days.  Part of the campground was under water from intense rains and we launched our kayak at a campsite.  The intense heat wave griping the country forced us on the lake about 6:30 AM and back off by 8:AM.  This large park with a day use area and trails provided us much space to keep our walking feet happy.

In charge in Franklin is Charles’s secretary who answers cat calls.  Lulu belongs to neighbors, Ben and Jill, and is an outside kitty.  Of course, she has all the comforts of home with lights, ESPN talk radio,  AC or Heat as needed.  She comes and goes through here kitty door Charles built.  At night Ben makes sure she is behind closed doors.