Had my fingers crossed it wasn’t going to be a rainy morning and it wasn’t. However it was under some mighty stormy looking clouds that Kelly, Pheebs and I motored ourselves north up to Goderich in the Big EEE. A quick stop at Rona Hardware, topped up both our fuel and propane tanks then hit A&W with a couple breakfast coupons. Sky’s began clearing and it was a nice sunny drive back to Bayfield. Everything checked out fine in the Motorhome so she is ready to roll Tuesday.
HEADING NORTH UP HIGHWAY 21 TOWARDS GODERICH
HAD A SQUEAKY SIDE DOOR ALONG THE WAY SO OUR CHIEF MECHANICAL ‘MISS FIX-IT’ ENGINEER SLIPPED BACK TO CHECK IT OUT
A busy day again around the rig and property doing things that Snow Birds normally do before heading south for the winter. A particularly busy and sometimes frustrating time for Kelly waiting and waiting on the phone to put our Bell telephone and Eastlink cable on hold for the winter. Also more phone waiting time while activating our Shaw satellite dish plus Verizon internet and T-Mobile cell phone. Always long wait times and built in confusements with all these companies. Just seems to be the way it is and Kelly is always so pleasantly patient with those people. If it was up to me to do all that stuff I’m afraid we would probably end up sitting at home all winter.
PHEEBS AND I HOLD DOWN THE FORT WHILE KELLY SLIPS INTO THE RONA HARDWARE STORE
WAITING PATIENTLY FOR MOM TO COME BACK
We have pretty much decided to get ourselves a tire monitoring system for the Motorhome and Jeep so it’s just a question now of where and when we can do that. With 2 close call tire ‘blow-outs’ behind us in the last 3 years I am understandably nervous about tires now and that is ‘one’ of the reasons we put all new heavy duty tires on the Jeep a few weeks ago. We are currently leaning towards the ‘Tire-Minder’ system.
A week from tonight will be our last night in Spencerport New York and we will pull out early the next morning heading for Florida. Our first days on the road going anywhere are usually long ones & I look forward to that. After a 6 month stay in one place I am always very happy to be out on the open road going somewhere and doing something totally different for a change. I have always been a driver of long distances and even at age 72 that enjoyment has never left me. It’s just as strong as ever. We will end our first day or two somewhere we have probably never been before and we likely won't know where that place is until we actually pull over wherever and shut it down for the night. I love that open ended style of travel & freedom of spontaneous thought. 
HEADING HOME THIS MORNING THROUGH OUR GORGEOUS AUTUMN COUNTRYSIDE
I’m still kicking around a couple routes between Spencerport NY and Sarasota Florida. Some people suggested I-95 down the Eastern Seaboard but after checking my map and seeing that it headed past places like New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC etc. I quickly determined I was not interested in having anything to do with all that big mega city stuff. ‘Might’ use 95 for a short stretch north of Jacksonville Fla but that would be just about it. It is Atlanta Georgia I really want to have no part of so I figure we will keep well East of there. Well that’s what I figure anyway………………….
GROANER’S CORNER:(( Top 10 Reasons God Created Eve::
10. God worried that Adam would always be lost in the garden because men hate to ask for directions.
9. God knew that Adam would one day need someone to hand him the TV remote.
8. God knew that Adam would never buy a new fig leaf when his seat wore out and would therefore need Eve to get one for him.
7. God knew that Adam would never make a doctor's appointment for himself.
6. God knew that Adam would never remember which night was garbage night. 5. God knew that if the world was to be populated, men would never be able to handle childbearing.
4. As "Keeper of the Garden," Adam would never remember where he put his tools.
3. The scripture account of creation indicates Adam needed someone to blame his troubles on when God caught him hiding in the garden.
2. As the Bible says, "It is not good for man to be alone!"
1. When God finished the creation of Adam, He stepped back, scratched His head and said, "I can do better than that."
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A Few Good Thoughts For Today::
- Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
- There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness".
- People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
- And when God, who created the entire universe with all of its glories, decides to deliver a message to humanity, He WILL NOT use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.
- When trouble arises & things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution & is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy.
- The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.
So nice to get back on the road, we will be a couple days behind you and the same travel plan only we going west after NY, where do we stop for the night? Wherever we feel like it.
ReplyDeleteAnticipation then one the road again is wonderful, enjoy the journey.
Good thinking about I-95. Stay away from it, unless you drive north through NH and ME. That is the only stretch which is good for a leisure trip.
ReplyDeletejust A reminder
ReplyDeleteTire minder an. tire monitor are both the same units made by a company in China but sold by two different companies with their name on it
If you're going to put one on your motorhome and you're going to put one on your jeep make sure you get the little green Signal booster for the jeep that goes with it
Didn't know about the China connection. We had better re-think this.
DeleteMust be exciting days for you!
ReplyDeleteGood idea to have tires on the Jeep monitored. I have had a blow-out twice on my Jeep as I was towing it and the first time it tore up the fender and liner, the second time a trucker motioned that I had a problem when he passed me. I can see the Jeep in the rear camera monitor, but I couldn't tell it had blown the tires.
ReplyDeleteYou'll need to keep track of I-95 in North Carolina, especially where Lumberton may still be flooded or perhaps closed for maintenance. Hurricane Matthew dumped way too much rain for their rivers to handle.
ReplyDeleteGood tip, I had forgotten about the hurricane aftermath over that way.
DeleteI have the Hopkins Tire Pressure Monitoring System. This is the only system I have any experience with and I have had it about 5 years. It has worked well for me but I find it hard to program. Sometimes I want to throw it when I try to install a new sensor because I usually end up un programing another sensor trying to program the new sensor. I have had so many tire problems over the years that I would check my tire pressure every morning I was traveling. I didn't like to be messing with the tires so much. Now I can check the pressure from my dash. If I have a slow leak or flat tire I know it right away. I would hate to travel without some kind of system.
ReplyDeleteI haven't driven I-95 for years, but I think going through Baltimore is much worse than around DC. Washington DC is about 65 miles or so east of I-95. The road has always been bumper to bumper semis, and once I decided to settle down and just do the speed limit I liked to fall in line with the trucks and not worry about passing them all. All in all, I-95 isn't bad from VA down to NC/TN. I never drove it south of there.
ReplyDeleteI'm catching your excitement to be back on the road again!
Hi, Al. When I read that you like to "be out on the open road", I thought "I don't know how much of that road will be open" if you are going I 95. I would expect it to be full of traffic. That corridor along the east coast is so very different from your AZ places. I do hope you will make it through with no problems. Will be good to follow along with you. I know Aunt Jean will be glad to see the Bayfield Bunch. That tire monitoring system would help with a major source of stress. Always a plus.
ReplyDeleteA tire pressure monitoring system is an excellent idea, you'll get a lot of peace of mind and it may even save your trip one day.
ReplyDeleteWe use the one made by a company called TST and we are very happy with it. It's available online from Amazon and at a lot of truck stops. Whatever system you get, I would suggest that you make sure that the sensors that mount on each tire's valve stem have user replaceable batteries. Some models have this and some don't. In the long run it's a lot more convenient and less expensive to be able to change your own batteries.
We've had TST tire monitors since 2009. Wouldn't travel without them. They have saved us a couple of times.
ReplyDeleteCracker Barrel waiting for you....
ReplyDeleteI95 south of North Carolina is good. I've driven it many times.
ReplyDeleteJust my 2 cents. I check the pressure on every tire, everytime we move the rig. I check the car and RV. We move the rig about 30 times a year. I've headed off 2 potential problems that way. TPMS for 10 tires isn't cheap.
ReplyDeleteJust a physical look along with the pressure test goes a long way.
Wish we lived closer to you! We are selling our tire minder for the motor home and tow with booster. Sold our motor home this year and bought a park model in Arizona. Ours is the Tire Minder and we never had trouble with it. Good luck on your journey west!
ReplyDeleteAl, we just got home to Florida yesterday from traveling 17K going to Alaska via California and back through California on way home. Decided to go through Kentucky on way home, and on our way through Knoxville Friday on way down we had a inner tire start to go flat. Our Tire-Safeguard system we bought through Amazon (10 sensors) worked just right. Beeped, I looked at it and it indicated which tire, what the pressure was (down to 65 from 80) and I immediately slowed down. It beeped again in 5 seconds, was down to 60. Kept doing that until it reached 25. I was able to limp down freeway for less than a mile at 30 mph, got off and luckily stopped into a Cracker Barrel where roadside service came within 90 minutes and we were off again. Got to love the tire sensor, won't travel without it myself. --Dave (GoingRvWay.com)
ReplyDeleteWe take 285 around Atlanta, Al. It doesn't add that much time, and it's a lot less stressful.
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