Where is Harry-David & Lugnut?
Where is Harry David & Lugnut?
Contrary to many beliefs I am not wondering done the byways and highway of America. In fact I am still here in Joplin, Missouri.
“Why”? Someone asked me the other day. Well, the simple answer is, I’ve never done this before and my estimating the time it would take to get things done was so far off that I missed my anticipated date of April, 1st, by weeks.
Is funny how you plan and plan, carefully getting all your ducks in a row when you least expect it one of them steps out of line and another fails to make formation. This is the last time I will use ducks.
The long and short of it is that it has taken me longer then I planned to load the RV, setup my backup camera and get the extra storage chest for the trailer. Also my 1991 Olds, Delta 88 has not sold yet. The car market in Joplin has fallen out. All of the used car dealers have a full selection of cars that are just setting there. One dealer told me he sold only 2 cars this month when other times he would of sold 10 by now.
I haven’t given up. I now have signs in the front and back window of the Olds. Saying it’s for sale. And I am now willing to take a best offer.
The only things that I am waiting on are the sale of the car, mounting the storage chests and moving my computer into the RV. I’m moving the computer system on Saturday the 19th. I’ll pick up some food as I leave town before I hit the highway.
It looks as if this time by next week I will be on my way to the southern rim of the Grand Canyon in AZ. I plan on spending 4 weeks in the area, exploring, taking pictures and trying to find places for all the boxes that are setting on the couch. And as I mentioned the last time I plan on meeting the girl I took to the prom almost 40 years ago. We lost touch with each other until about 2 ½ years ago when we found each other on the Internet.
Lugnut is doing fine but I can tell he knows something is up with all the moving going on in the RV. Plus I have been getting him use to a harness and leash. The harness is okay now but the leash is a different story. In time I do feel he will come around as I keep doing it a little more each time.
With my broadband AirCard from Sprint I will be able to use the Internet on the road so I will keep posting to my web site, photos and a journal of my travels.
One of the goals of my going “Full-Time” is to discover who I am and just what I can and can not do. Since my auto accident in 1999 and the resulting disability in 2003 I have found myself going downhill. This along with the marriage problems, additional health concerns and decided I wasn’t going to just wait around until I was in a wheel chair or worse. I was going to live life and discover what I was still made of. A few years ago a friend said I lost the, “Eye of the tiger.” He was referring to the Rocky movies where the fighter lost his desire to fight. I guess in a way after losing our home, van, and so much else, not to mention my wife, I did lose the will to fight. I was giving up.
That’s about the time I came across four friends I went to high school with in the mid-sixties on the Internet and also discovered you all here at the Escapees Forum. With the help of others I started to look at things differently. Instead of thinking of what I lost, I started thinking about what I had, and what I still could do.
I remember reading here in the forum, advice to a couple who were going through the transition of bricks to wheels and undergoing a lot of stress. The advice, slow down, it will get done. Take little baby steps and smaller goals that lead to the finish or starting line. And most of all learn to enjoy it. Enjoy it I thought. All the little problems that pop up, all the extra money you don’t plan on, enjoy it? How?
Then I remember a bible verse that said, “It came to pass…” No it didn’t come to stay, it came to pass. And the strange thing about it, with each problem there was something I needed to learn. I needed to learn both about the RV and its many systems, life on the road and all of the speed bumps, but most of all I needed to learn more about myself.
I discover things that I could not do, but then I learn of other ways of getting them done. I also learn of things that I can still do. Like helping a blind organization in Dallas, TX build their web site, this lead to another business in NJ asking me to help them with their web site. While it may take me longer to do what I use to do in 8 hours I could still get it done and do a good job. I started remember things I had forgotten. Not working for 4 years can cause your brain to lock things away and sometimes it takes a jump start to get it going again.
So I guess the correct answer to, “Where is Harry-David & Lugnut?”, is right were they should be, living in their own time frame, doing what needs to be done, and moving closer to their goal.
Hope to see you all soon,
Contrary to many beliefs I am not wondering done the byways and highway of America. In fact I am still here in Joplin, Missouri.
“Why”? Someone asked me the other day. Well, the simple answer is, I’ve never done this before and my estimating the time it would take to get things done was so far off that I missed my anticipated date of April, 1st, by weeks.
Is funny how you plan and plan, carefully getting all your ducks in a row when you least expect it one of them steps out of line and another fails to make formation. This is the last time I will use ducks.
The long and short of it is that it has taken me longer then I planned to load the RV, setup my backup camera and get the extra storage chest for the trailer. Also my 1991 Olds, Delta 88 has not sold yet. The car market in Joplin has fallen out. All of the used car dealers have a full selection of cars that are just setting there. One dealer told me he sold only 2 cars this month when other times he would of sold 10 by now.
I haven’t given up. I now have signs in the front and back window of the Olds. Saying it’s for sale. And I am now willing to take a best offer.
The only things that I am waiting on are the sale of the car, mounting the storage chests and moving my computer into the RV. I’m moving the computer system on Saturday the 19th. I’ll pick up some food as I leave town before I hit the highway.
It looks as if this time by next week I will be on my way to the southern rim of the Grand Canyon in AZ. I plan on spending 4 weeks in the area, exploring, taking pictures and trying to find places for all the boxes that are setting on the couch. And as I mentioned the last time I plan on meeting the girl I took to the prom almost 40 years ago. We lost touch with each other until about 2 ½ years ago when we found each other on the Internet.
Lugnut is doing fine but I can tell he knows something is up with all the moving going on in the RV. Plus I have been getting him use to a harness and leash. The harness is okay now but the leash is a different story. In time I do feel he will come around as I keep doing it a little more each time.
With my broadband AirCard from Sprint I will be able to use the Internet on the road so I will keep posting to my web site, photos and a journal of my travels.
One of the goals of my going “Full-Time” is to discover who I am and just what I can and can not do. Since my auto accident in 1999 and the resulting disability in 2003 I have found myself going downhill. This along with the marriage problems, additional health concerns and decided I wasn’t going to just wait around until I was in a wheel chair or worse. I was going to live life and discover what I was still made of. A few years ago a friend said I lost the, “Eye of the tiger.” He was referring to the Rocky movies where the fighter lost his desire to fight. I guess in a way after losing our home, van, and so much else, not to mention my wife, I did lose the will to fight. I was giving up.
That’s about the time I came across four friends I went to high school with in the mid-sixties on the Internet and also discovered you all here at the Escapees Forum. With the help of others I started to look at things differently. Instead of thinking of what I lost, I started thinking about what I had, and what I still could do.
I remember reading here in the forum, advice to a couple who were going through the transition of bricks to wheels and undergoing a lot of stress. The advice, slow down, it will get done. Take little baby steps and smaller goals that lead to the finish or starting line. And most of all learn to enjoy it. Enjoy it I thought. All the little problems that pop up, all the extra money you don’t plan on, enjoy it? How?
Then I remember a bible verse that said, “It came to pass…” No it didn’t come to stay, it came to pass. And the strange thing about it, with each problem there was something I needed to learn. I needed to learn both about the RV and its many systems, life on the road and all of the speed bumps, but most of all I needed to learn more about myself.
I discover things that I could not do, but then I learn of other ways of getting them done. I also learn of things that I can still do. Like helping a blind organization in Dallas, TX build their web site, this lead to another business in NJ asking me to help them with their web site. While it may take me longer to do what I use to do in 8 hours I could still get it done and do a good job. I started remember things I had forgotten. Not working for 4 years can cause your brain to lock things away and sometimes it takes a jump start to get it going again.
So I guess the correct answer to, “Where is Harry-David & Lugnut?”, is right were they should be, living in their own time frame, doing what needs to be done, and moving closer to their goal.
Hope to see you all soon,
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