I'm dreaming...

of a white Christmas.

o wait, i don't have to dream, it happened.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Have yourself...

a merry...little...


Christmas...


now.


Merry Christmas everyone. White Christmas pics tomorrow. <3

Whimper, part deux

hooray... aunt flo started her visit today, AND i have a cold... on one of the coldest days i've ever experienced. i thought i got into RVing to get AWAY from this kind of weather?!?

and i think something froze in the van. it's trying to overheat again.

how much longer?

*Whimper*

why am i here again? o right. paycheck. even teh van doesn't want to run in this. ima go back to bed now. g'night.

argh

yikes. it is seriously time for some catch-up. ok, last time i posted was from Titusville FL. since then, I found a job in Abilene TX that was much better than the one in FL, so off we went. We stopped in Pensacola FL along the way to surprise my mom for her birthday. she cried. here we are in the KOA in Gulf Shores AL...the only KOA in the entire state!

It was Eric's and my first time in Texas, so we were excited.Luna, however, was unimpressed.



Abilene was a lot of fun, but very dusty and windy and somewhat bland. one exciting thing was there's an actual honest-to-goodness drive-in theater there. We went and watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. that was an experience for me! my first time at the drive-in! we also had one of the best steaks i've ever had in my life at Sharon's Lytle Land and Cattle. if you're ever in Abilene, go. you won't regret it. there's also a bunch of cool museums and old buildings in downtown Abilene.

the Paramount theater. all restored. "Mestena" (means "Mustang" in Spanish)

i don't know. but it looks cool

Denzel Crocker lives in Abilene. who knew?

When our time was up there, we went to Coffeyville Kansas to help Amazon.com with their Christmas rush. what were we thinking?!? o right... 11 bucks an hour... that's what.

I'll TRY to update more often now. 'specially since my old phone crapped out and i got a new one, so i can even update mobile-y. we're headed back to Texas for next spring/summer... Amarillo this time. rawr.

hmmmm.....

some of you more astute readers may notice that the last picture is different from the one before it (and most of the ones before that) in one very important way... yes, that's right... our tow vehicle changed! the dodge was beginning to really become and endless laundry list of minor problems... nothing major... other than a major headache, and i suggested replacing it... and thus the search began!

i love Craigslist, really i do. while checking my local area, i found a guy with a van, and he was willing to trade for a truck! the day before we go to show the guy our truck, the power steering goes out. turns out the guy is really handy, and ready and willing to take on all the truck's idiosyncrasies... even the pump! we traded the truck for the van, straight up.

the van is a 1995 GMC G20 conversion van with all the bells and whistles (cruise control! how i've missed you!!!) and powered by a 350. it even had a hitch already.

not to say that the van doesn't have its own problems. i mean, come on... its 14 years old (holy crap, already?) right now it really needs a radiator flush and fill... but each problem as it comes.

THIS is why RVing rocks!!!

Hungry? its lunchtime? whats that you say? McDonald's? BAH! how about grilled kielbasa and bread hot and fresh at a rest-stop respite, our little roadside paradise. recipe for success: park so that the shade from your own RV falls across where you plan to sit and you can have fun anywhere :D the whole rest stop was green with envy.