Day/night before departure

OK we're in full swing now, my glasses came in yesterday and now we can leave on Saturday. Brought the motor home down to the lot next door to finish loading up and doing some minor cleaning, like windows, getting pictures back up etc. The Carpet needs replacing and Bev wants wood instead, but in the mean time I might just get a 5x6 rug for under the table for this trip or until we get to Oregon and check out the pricing in and around Bend, Oregon. I woke up this morning to my lowest weight since January 1st and with the hauling in and out and cleaning I'm already exhausted and may have hit or might hit my FIRST goal before we take off. For those that don't know Bev and I have been on a weight lose program of our own, basically numbers counting and logging daily on www.myfitnesspal.com, being accountable for what you eat each day. I started off great guns but have been in a real rut for the past month bouncing up and down between the same 4 to 5 pounds. My FIRST goal is to get below 300 pounds, sure sounds huge to you skinny folks but yep we topped out at 335 after the first of the year and tipped the scale this morning at 302 and feel like I lost that 2 pounds this morning already! By the way Bev is doing great also, down 25 to date and looking good! Enough of that stuff, back to the travels. Mike's pretty much all loaded and ready to hit the road and as you might imagine Bev hasn't started putting things in the motor home, she's been busy making gas money. I'm going to wait now until after dinner with the kids and then finish up my stuff and loading the basements and finish the windows, it will cool off this evening and like I said right now I'm exhausted. It will get more interesting starting tomorrow as we embark on our 5th summer journey exploring these United States and it's many little interesting cities and towns and sites. Between this blog and FB and e-mails I might just keep busy but love every minute of it.

Summer journey of 2013

May 29 Summer journey of 2013 What better way to document, share, and just keep in touch with friends and family than with my blog? It's been so long ago now and was so political in the past that it might have been followed by my family, close family and most conservatives towards the last entries. No I will try and keep this to the summer of 2013's journey and happening, sightings, and folks along the way with hopes those that decide to follow enjoy this as I'm sure I will regardless. It's the 29th and we were hoping to hit the road on June 1st, and who knows may still make that date. A couple of things that might delay that a day or so are daughter Lisa and grandson Jack returning from their vacation to California, and Yosemite National Park, they are due back on Sunday the 2nd so we might just stay to see them before we head out. Second would be that I procrastinated in making my eye examination appointment and it turns out the old eyes are getting a bit weary. I now need some specks that will take normally 7 to 10 business days to make and Monday the 3rd of June will be the seventh working day, so we're hoping for quicker than normal results! I started packing some things into the coach(motor home) yesterday and plan on finishing my stuff up today, yes Bev has been busy and will need a few more days as usual with the ladies. The service on the coach went well, oil change of the motor and the generator, furl filter and a 22 point inspections of the entire coach like fridge, water heater, lights, water tanks, tires, air conditioners etc. and we passed in pretty good shape. Bev wants a recliner lawn chair and the good ones at Camping World run about $159, but I got a flyer yesterday with a sale on these recliners at 2 for $199 and I have a 10% off coupon so maybe we'll get then beings they'll be 2 for $179.10 after with the sale and coupon. OK it's getting boring so we'll end it for today and hope some of the old followers drop back in and give us another shot. Not saying there won't be totally no current events listed but a more pleasurable blog I will strive for, and between this and FB our journey will be well documented with interesting tidbits of information. Mike

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