The hunters are having beautiful clear weather but not only is it wet around here, it is cold. The furnace quit during the night so it was down to 50 degrees inside the motorhome when I woke up! I fiddled with the thermostat and got the furnace to light and watched the thermometer until it was up to 70 again then waited for the furnace to shut off. It did and then it cycled properly off and on all morning and has worked fine all day now. We have an appointment with the local RV center for November 4th to have the furnace serviced and repaired. With luck, it will last until then as the weather is getting colder every day.
Last night I "cooked" a lovely bowl of soup for dinner, Wolfgang Puck brand, pretty good actually--Grilled Chicken with Rice. After my dinner I went cruising on the Internet and found a diary online written by a newly retired British couple who came over, bought a truck and travel trailer and spent about six months traveling around the USA. Hopefully, this link will work ...
Last night I "cooked" a lovely bowl of soup for dinner, Wolfgang Puck brand, pretty good actually--Grilled Chicken with Rice. After my dinner I went cruising on the Internet and found a diary online written by a newly retired British couple who came over, bought a truck and travel trailer and spent about six months traveling around the USA. Hopefully, this link will work ...
They had a great time, danced with the hurricanes toward the end but sold each rig for a good price (housing and transportation in Florida was a sellers market after the hurricanes) then flew home earlier this month.
It was a very interesting prospective for me, seeing my country and it's people from a foreigner's viewpoint. He must be a closet democratic (living in a Monarchy) because I agreed with him for the most part. He critiqued America's "obesity problem" and he made the connection between having money=being slim and being poor=being fat. Of course, he admitted that wasn't always the case because he also saw some very large ladies in designer clothes--but not too often. His comment, "America has one big problem. If they don't solve it, life expectancy must fall. Will that rescue the projected deficit in the Social Security Fund?" was food for thought. Along with other issues, he reviewed our politics, our newspapers, the "Bible Belt", our highways and radio stations. He and his wife loved American food however (taking the risk of being sued), he said, "Stay as far away from Hardee's as you can." But, after traveling and eating many less than memorable meals in England, I'm not convinced an Englishman's critique of our food can have much merit.
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