Sherri is on Her Way Home

Well it has been two days since my little sweetie left and she is coming home today and I will be so glad to have my room mate back. I am at work and it is 5:25 pm. She called me about 30 min ago and she was 90 miles from here so it will be at least another hour before she gets here. I guess I will just post this in the journal and wait for her.

This has been the longest day. I had to run the floor in the press room all day and all the problems were dropped on my desk to solve and I did not really want them but someone had to make the decisions and I was picked. Let me start a short timers calender here and see how many days until I get to set under my awning and sip on cold drinks and worry about what I plan on doing next...let me see nap or read a good book...oh I just can't decide.

I am still working on my budget and I don't know why it has taken me so long to put it together seeing as how I have very little money to work with. I should have something by next week so I will present it to you then and see what you think.

I think I spotted RV Dude the other day at the gas station. Seems he is trying out a new car that gets better gas milage. I will have to call him and see how it is doing. I took a picture of him while I was pulling out.

Nice wheels Dude...looking sharp as ever man

Well I guess I better check on the crews they are all about to leave so I have to check and be sure they got all their stuff done before they go. I will return when you least expect it and continue this great adventure Somewhere in Time.

You Can Go Too Far

I read a journal the other day and it really upset me. I do not get upset too often but when I do I have to comment on it or it will eat me up inside. I emailed some of the Dreamers and copied some excerpts from this journal so they could read it and tell me if I was reading something into it or not. What I got back was a confirmation from all that I was not reading anything into it other than what was in black and white. I will not say anymore than that and I will not say who wrote the journal but I will say this that when we write our journals we should be careful about our comments concerning others. OK this is not one of our regular reads and this person is one that most of you would not know so do not worry. I am just commenting on the content of the journal and how we should all be vigilant in what we write.

OK I will move off that subject move on to say that Sherri is in Atlanta Texas working and I am home alone. I got out our big jar of coins that we collected over the last 5 or 6 years and started going through them to see if there were any worth more than the face value. I only got about 1/3 of the way into the jar and became tired of looking...having not found anything interesting. I then turned my attention to finding me something to eat and there too found nothing of interest so I settled with a rotisserie chicken from Kroger that I got on sale for $3.00. I am starting my
PO FOKS FULLTIMING BUDGET plan that I have been developing for some time. I will lay this all out for those of you that will be as poor as I when you retire.

The beauty of this plan is that you can read it and no one will know that you are poorer than a Pea Farmer. If anyone ask..."Do you read Speedy's PO FOKS journal"...you can say heavens no I have money!!! See...and then on the sly you can read it and take notes at night and follow the plan and no one will be the wiser. Oh I have it all figured out. Just don't let all the folks with that long green stuff see you leaving out of any of the CG that Ol Speedster stays at...that could be a dead give-a-way that you are following my advise.

All kidding aside people read these journals where RVers tell how much money they have to live on and many wanna bes shy away because they think that they could not make it on there income when they retire. When they read my journal they will immediately feel richer than a freshly fertilized garden.

Some of the first things that I will be researching in my new endeavor is to identify FUN. What is FUN made up of. Once we categorize this we will be able to move into $$ FUN and FREE FUN. By enhancing the FREE FUN we will find avenues to take... that leave the old wallet in the pocket so you don't have to hockit. This will be a fun trip across this wonderful land that will leave you feeling secure that you will be able to eat tomorrow...no more staying out behind the Wally World eating out of the dumpster...you can move right out front with the best of them.


I will be working on the first pass at the budget this week and I will try and have it posted by next week so you all will have an idea on what we can get by with on a low income diet. I will try to have variations of the budget so we have several avenues to follow in differing times.

Well it is time for PO Professor Speedy to slowly fade on out of here and drift off into that misty distance Somewhere in Time.

Beetle Bloomers

Well I went from Speedy to Beetle Bloomers. OK I know you want to know what in the heck I am talking about. Jim of http://www.justravelin.blogspot.com/ had an encounter with a snake some time back and it scared him so, he jumped 3 ft in the air and screamed like a girl...Well I thought that was so funny and I mentioned that I wish I had a camera and had caught the whole thing on tape. Well not to leave Jim feeling embarrassed I told the story of me and my encounter with a beetle that had some how made a home in my pants one night while I slept. Now I have to tell you that I was overseas at the time and sleeping outdoors of course so the beetle just came on in and made himself at home. Well the next morning when I woke up and was getting ready to head out with the rest of my platoon I woke the beetle up and he began to let me know of his presents! Needless to say the pants came down in a hurry and I began the search for my boarder. Running around with your pants down around your ankles is not a pretty site but I had to evict this guy quickly. OK Jim if you can picture all this... your screaming like a girl and jumping 3 foot in the are ain't so bad buddy. Don't feel bad. So this is how I got tagged Beetle Bloomers. Somehow by trying to help a fellow Dreamer out I ended up on center stage.



OK moving right along I will tell you that yesterday holds no exciting stories for me to relate to you. I went to work and Sherri went to work and we came home...Oh we did get our table cloth from Don Cat ....Thanks Don it got here just fine and we will have to make use of it very soon. If anyone out there would like to get the greatest table cloth in the world take a look at http://www.rvdaydreams.blogspot.com/ Don and Cheryl Catoe are Dreamers and they just happen to sell vinyl table cloths that have a pleated edge that fills with water and goes on your table. the weight of the water on the edge of the cloth keeps it on you table no matter how high the wind gets...no more flapping edges!! You have to see it to believe it.



OK I am at work this morning and things are getting hectic around here so I guess I better check it to you. Here is a picture of a beetle that looked similar to the one that took residence in by "Bloomers" now what would you do...Somewhere in Time???

We Had a Busy Night

Yesterday was spent looking for Sherri a computer table to no avail. The ones we did find were not what she wanted and the ones she wanted cost an arm and leg. We are putting the table on the back burner for a while. Maybe they will go on sale and she can get the one she wants??

Not much else rocked our world except for the chicken I grilled out and it was good!. We had that and salad with a baked tater and I got fuller than a tick....no nap today though. All low cal for you that are wondering if I am still dieting...the answer is yes but no results...could it be the ice cream?

I jumped on chat last night to check in on all my Dreamer friends and had every intention of getting off early and posting my journal. Well my friend Dee got me started on IM with the Web Cam and we were trying to do a conference call...so to speak...and before either one of us noticed it was 12:00 Dee's time and 11:00 my time. This did not afford me the time to post last night so I am a day behind on boring you to tears.

For those of you that may only read my journal I have some pictures of my good friend Jenny's new to her Motorhome. For being a used unit it is really nice looking and from what I can tell maintained very well also. I am anxious to see the insides and hear back from her on how it drives and all the other sorted details. We will be counting the days until she can come down and meet us all in Kerrville at the Gathering of Dreamers. Save your pennies up JJ so you can get that gas money to come down on.





Jenny you look good behind the wheel of your new MH




This is in good condition for used!!!

I am waiting to hear all about it Jenny so get us some more pictures and take us all along on your first voyage Somewhere in Time

A Do Nothing Day

The original plan laid down for this day did not turn out at all. We were going to get some paperwork at the bank and get some stuff mailed off for our insurance rebates but when we got to the bank they said they could not do it on Saturday. Well now that is not what the lady told me on the phone...I said...Well we are so sorry....Well so am I...said Speedy...wanting to bite a nail in half...You call on the phone to save some diesel going to all these places and then when you get there it is not the way they said it was...GERRRRRRRRRR!

OK not all lost for the day we headed to Camping World to see about getting a heating element for the Hot Water Heater and also to see if they had a computer table for Sherri's new computer. Well the computer table they had was not really what she wanted so we settled for the element and headed to get something to eat.

On the way down the road I...for whatever the reason thought of eating at Olive Garden. I had not eaten there in some time so I suggested that we find one and try it out. Sherri was hungry and she said that would be fine with her. We located one in Lewisville just down the road and pulled in about 1:00. The lunch crowd was just about out of there so we did not have to wait long to be seated.

We had a great meal...I ordered the spaghetti and meat balls and Sherri got the chicken and veggie plate. They were both good and the salad and bread sticks..OHHHHH my! We ate until we were both packed to the top...and you know that is a lot of packing for me.

After eating we headed to Toys R Us to get a gift certificate for our grandson in Kansas. He will be 2 years old the 1st of August. Gosh has it been two years??? Time just gets by so fast. It just seems like the other day that he came into our lives and now he has been here two years and his brother is due here in a few days! GEEE I see a trip up to Kansas in the near future.

We had planned on a couple more stops but the food and the heat was taking hold of us so we decided to head to the 5th Wheel and get cool. Not long after we got home we both set down in the recliners and kicked back to rest and let our meal settle...well this was about 2:30 the next thing I knew it was 6:00 and Sherri was up putting the dishes away. She and I both had slept all that time ....we must have been tired.

Well tomorrow Speedy puts on his plumbing hat and tries to change the element out. FD5 said I could do it....so John if this does not work out it is all your fault...NOT...LOL I hope that I can muddle through it. If any of you out there has had to change a HWH element that is located in the back of the heater let me know what to look for...I know look for someone to do it for you.

Until then my friends this is your old friend Speedy and his loving...wonderful charming...kind DW signing off Somewhere in Time.

This is the Federal Building

You wonder if this is one of the crews lost in the World Trade Center??

This Church is just down from the WTC and the cemetary there was the one they had on the news...if you remember.

This is a famous catholic church and the name has left my memory...do you know?

Made It One More Week

One more week is down...they seem to be going fairly fast if you look back to the Rally and see how long ago it was. I don't want to wish my life

away but I have been working for 45 years and 30 of those 45 were spent in one building. You see how I could be longing for something new. The plant I work in...like so many manufacturing plants has no windows...nor does my office so I spend a lot of time looking at four walls and no sunlight...trees...clouds. It will be good to spend time in a comfortable climate outdoors.

I read all my journals today and enjoyed them all so much. Everyone has such interesting travels and great pictures. I travel right along with all of them...and they don't even know that I am there...like the fly on the wall. For those of you that are not able to retire and travel now this is a great means of getting away from the day to day humdrum. Read a journal and look at the pictures and you too can be traveling.

Sherri did not work today but I was fortunate enough to draw the short straw and work and go in to baby sit the Press room. We are working on commercial accounts and they will drive you over the edge if you let them. People want the craziest stuff. Their demands are out of sight and sometimes unreal?? We get them as much as we can and then we have to pull back on the rains. Yearbooks are a little easier to work and you do not have the customer looking over your shoulder...in most cases. We do have some big schools that come in and press check their books but not that many...due to cost constraints.

Enough about work!! We are setting here at ten after seven...Sherri is working puzzles and I am posting my journal. We ate hot dogs tonight...didn't we have those the other night. It is hard to think of meals if your tired and worn out. Hot Dogs are a good meal in a pinch. I heard on CNN today that they cause Cancer now. Oh well that makes about 123,645 things now that cause Cancer. GEEE everything causes Cancer. Next thing we will hear is RVing causes Cancer. Now that would be about it for me.

Tomorrow I have to run up to the bank and get the papers on the Truck payoff. I have to have that to get the rebate on my GAP insurance and the Credit life. We are going to take that money and put it towards deductibles on our insurance. We will be covered without the worry of covering deductibles. There are so many lose ends to tie up when you are getting ready to retire. I hope that I can get my Disability re-evaluation in and working before February. I know that is a long time off but getting reevaluated takes so long...you know that is a government thing. I want it behind me before I set my retirement up so I have all my ducks in a row. Like I said there are a lot of lose ends to tie up here.

Well I am still posting pictures from my trip so you will just have to bare with me. Have you ever gone to someones house and had to set through their vacation photos. You know you have to set there and OOOO and AHHHHHH the whole time ....show me that same respect here OK. I love digital cameras...you can take thousand of pictures and never pay any developing. Pick the ones you like and delete the rest. Technology is good.

Speaking of Technology what did we do without the cell phones...fax...scanners...voice mail...email...text messages...chat oh my I don't know how in the world we ever made it. So much of my business is done over the phone lines and Internet. I have had to grow with these advances and learn new systems. When I went to college we did not have computers and any of the technology that went with them...digital printing for example. So I have had to learn all this as time went on. My schooling is about to come to an end. OK I am rambling now...please stop me.

OK I will leave you with these pictures...and best wishes to you all Somewhere in Time.

Hot Dry No Hope For Improvement

We got up this morning and believe me I was cold!!! The air was on 70 but it felt like 30! I had to turn it off before I could shower. I know that it will be on the other end of the thermometer soon enough. I took a real hot shower and it sure felt good. Put the coffee on and made sure my soul mate was up and getting ready to go. She is taking me to work this morning and then she is heading to Rockwall to work.

We have been doing pretty good with our dual working schedule. Sherri sometimes has to take me to work when she is working local and then when she is traveling out of town she rides with her brother. All her fuel is payed for after the first 20 miles so it works for us.

She finished her job up around 2:30 and gave me a call at work. She decided to head back home and relax for a while before she had to come and pick me up. That was OK with me seeing as how I had no way to get off early so I told her to rest and come at 5:30.

Before Sherri had left to come and get me Rodney called to see if Sherri and I wanted to eat out with him and Becky. I told him I was game and he should check with Sherri. We put a plan together and we met them at a Mexican Restaurant about half way between them and where we live.
We had a real good meal and got to visit with them. Becky is still in the wheelchair and should be for 4 more weeks. She is really getting tired of this condition and she can't wait to get out and about for a change. She has not been able to get into her new trailer since Branson. She only had it one week before she broke her leg. Bummer.

After we said our good byes Sherri and I headed to the house. We were only there about 30 minutes when we decided that we needed some creamer and cereal for the morning. Back in the truck and down the road to get supplies. We can find more ways to burn diesel.

We got back home and it was time to get on the chat line. I was lost as soon as I logged on...Jenny said that I was a pirate with a parrot??? Anyway, come to find out Roz was logged on as Jolly_Mon he was giving everyone a hard time so they would think it was me....OK Roz that is one for you...I owe you one. And Jenny....Yee of little faith...to think you had me pegged as Jolly_Mon ...shame on you. Not that it would have been fun to be Jolly_Mon...:)
OK here we go again time is running out. I have to lay my little head down...I will catch you all in my dreams Somewhere in Time

Weeks Half Gone And So Am I

Well it is Wednesday evening and Sherri and I just got in. Sherri came and picked me up after work...she came from Anna up close to Oklahoma. She got there about 5: 30 and we headed for the Panda China Cafe to grab some grub. She was starving and I had a hint of hunger myself.

After we had eaten we headed to the grocery store to pick up some food items and then went to the house. It was 7:30 by the time we pulled in and we were both just worn out. With Sherri working and me on 12 hour days we are both dragging these days. Will we make it 7 more months?? Gosh I hope so.

We are posting all our new information with our new addresses and we have moved our banking to a national bank so we will have plenty or branches all over the USA. We got us one of them thar Debit Cards too. GeeeeeWhizzzzz wez up town now! I always want to be an ontomanure and now I are one.

Do you get the feeling that I am running out of things to talk about....well your probably right. I wish that I had some exciting thing to tell you about today but it has been a boring day to say the least. Gosh if we just had some bad weather to talk about. Nothing comes to mind and I am so tired I can't think of any thing.

I will stop wasting you time with this dribble and head to the fridge for ice cream and then on to bed so I can get back up and head to work Somewhere in Time.

New York Stock Exchange Building

Take a look at these parking prices!!! No wonder New Yorkers don't have cars!!!

This is our MH. We had it 7 years and loved it...Not enough room

Another shot of the World Trade Center...gone forever

View from Liberty

Sherri Is Home And So Am I

I did not do my journal entry today at work because I was too busy. I got up and went into work early and had to work 12 hours today and by mid day when I usually do my journal I was knee deep in problems. With Larry out and my secretary too I am working full speed to keep up with all the things that are going on.

Sherri called about 5:00 and said she had made it to the RV and wanted to know where I was. I told her and she said that we would just go out to eat instead of trying to cook in the trailer...it would make it too hot...it has been over 100 here all week long. I told her that would be fine and I would be home around 7:30.

Well has things would turn out we did not eat out and we did not cook in the trailer either. We fixed some hot dogs in the microwave and that was it for dinner. I usually have a good lunch so dinner does not have to be spectacular by any means. I was full when all was said and done so I am a happy camper.

Not just a whole lot to report on today...what Speedy you don't have much to say???? Are you sick?? NO I just have worked 12 hours and not a lot of exciting things happened today at work. I guess it would have been exciting if HR had called and asked me if I would take a package for early retirement...I would have a lot to tell you about...but that was not to be so I guess I will go get me a bowl of ice cream and chat to see what everyone is doing tonight. I will turn in early cause tomorrow is another 12 hour day!! Maybe I will get some rest

Somewhere in Time

Downtown NY City

Ms Sherri at the Statue Of Liberty...notice the Twinn Towers

This is the Brooklyn Bridge

Our Lady

Front of the World Trade Center the year before 9/11

Its Monday And We Start All Over Again

We were up at the crack this morning. Sherri had to be in McKinney this morning to meet her brother. They are headed to some town in South Louisiana. It is a 7 to 8 hour drive and they had to get started early. Well that meant that ol Speedy had to take her so we were off about 6:00 am. I hate traffic! Now I want to tell you that North Dallas has big time traffic. I have never seen the like of cars. It took me 45 min to get there and 1 hour and 15 min to get back...Ouch! I was wore out by the time I got to work....and about 1 1/2 hour late.

OK that being said I need to comment on Darell and Judy's journal for a minuet. I don't know how many of you read good ol Darrell's journal but he is a gifted writer and funny to say the least. He open this morning by saying that he wished he did not have to work and that he should just go back and get a full time job!!! OH my I almost lost it. If he had a comment block on his journal I sure would have commented. Darrell!!! wake up man...what your doing is not working ...I am working Darrell. OK I am strapped to a desk and a computer with people constantly coming in whining because Latasha looked at her funny and she knows it is because she broke up with her boy friend and she is making fun of her for losing him...Oh no Darrell you don't want a job. You have been out of a job too long and you just think you want one...set back take deep breaths and repeat after me .....I do not want a 40 hour a week job with all the headaches and butt chewing and moaning and fighting traffic to and from and on and on BLA BLA BLAAAA.

OK I hope everyone out there understands what I just said and if you need anymore explanation I will be glad to help you out. Workamping can be enjoyable if you don't lose sight of what a real job was like and what all was involved in doing it every day of your life for 45 years.

I do plan on working some of the months between traveling and visiting the kids. We will need to supplement some of the higher cost of fuel and this would be one way to lessen the blow. I will never lose sight of...One: what a real job was like and Two: the money I save working will help me travel a little further at a later date.

Our life style will fall short of the glamorous lives of many full timers but I will venture to say that non will have anymore fun than I. I am mentally preparing myself for camp grounds without lush green yards and workout rooms...Spas and Olympic swimming pools...golf courses...shuttles to the Wally World...and 45 foot Wonderlodges that go on forever. I will be in Uncle Buddy's Campground and Body Shop but I will have plans to see everything within one tank of diesel that is free...which will include beautiful sights that the good Lord made and does not charge the general public to look at . Can I get an AMEN?

OK I am through with this sermon but I am not through with the message. I am going to get me some ice cream now... jump on chat with all my good Dreamer friends...see what everyone has been up to today. I will be back tomorrow with more words of wisdom and truth. Until then my faithful readers I will see you again Somewhere in Time

Sunday Not a Day of Rest For Us

This morning started early as many of our days do. We were to meet Jason our oldest son and Susan his girlfriend for breakfast. It is Jason's birthday and we were taking him out to eat. He lives in Prosper Texas which is north of Dallas and not all that far from Mom and Dad. We had a real good visit and a great breakfast.

After saying our good byes Sherri and I headed for our oldest daughters house to drop off some STUFF and then we were on to Lowe's to shop for HVAC filters and some other supplies for my honey due list. From Lowe's we headed to Wally World...a day without Wally World is not a complete day. We picked up some Bar Keepers Friend to clean some things in the RV...this was recommended by one of you Dreamers out there...I can't recall who but it was said that it was what we needed to do our cleaning so we got some. Then we went to Target to look for a computer desk for Sherri's laptop. She saw Ellie's and had a fit over it but we cannot find one. Ellie if you read this tell Sherri where to go get one so I wont go broke filling up with diesel every other day looking for this desk. Well Target did not have one so we gave up and headed home.

I have a project that should take me a good while to accomplish...I have to scan all our pictures and put them on CD. I hope my scanner holds up. I mention some time back about all our Slides that we have from the seventies. We have hundreds of them and I need to get them scanned as well. I have an idea how to get them from slides to CD without sending them to a photo print place...which I found out would cost me an arm and a leg...to get them all done! Oh well Sherri order us a viewer and it is on back order so we are waiting for that.

I is about 4:30 PM here now and it must be 100 degrees outside so my other chores will have to wait for the temp to cool off some. I hope to get my projects done before dark. Oh and I have one more movie to watch...we got the bucket list and we need to watch it here pretty quick...it is due back tonight.

OK my RV Dream friends and family I must retreat to the fridge for ice cream and then on to the movie. I will join you all later....Somewhere in Time.