November 22, 2007 Thanksgiving

We awoke today to snow. It was raining when we went to bed last night and the rain turned to snow leaving a couple of inches on the ground. This is the view from our bed room. Then we went to our daughter's for Thanksgiving Dinner. Our other daughters and their families were there so we were in Grampa and Gramma Hog Heaven. These type days are the best of times.

November 17, 2007 WE'RE BACK!

We decided that we like this format better than the other one and, so, will return to this for our blog. Hopefully, there will be no more changes other than content. We are still working on preparations for our southern tour which is set to be started right after New Years. We will start by spending a couple of weeks at The Bees RV Resort, in Clermont, FL, near Orlando. While there, will be checking out Disney World for employment. If hired, we will camp in the Orlando area until April. At that time, we head for Mt. Rushmore and then return to Michigan around the first of May. I have been hired at Waldenwoods RV Resort for the summer. I am really looking forward to being Ranger Jim at a great campground and resort. Tomorrow, we will attend the birthday celebration for a grandson.

October 25, 2007 WE'VE MOVED!

We have moved our blog to a new location. We have decided to use the Good Sam Club site because it allows us to do so many more things with our blog. We hope that you will continue coming along with us in our travels because otherwise we would really miss you. We are now at:

http://goodsamclub.mytripjournal.com/jimandcarol

Thanks and please let us know if you like the change, Jim and Carol

October 21, 2007 Grand Blanc, Frankenmuth and Davison, MI

We took our leaf color tour around home today and got these great, glorious colors. We finally were able to look at the colors when the sun was out. We thought about going east to see the colors in Vermont, etc but have added that to the "another time" list.

October 19, 2007 Grand Blanc, MI

These days have been filled with planning and wishing. I applied at Waldenwoods RV Resort in Hartland, MI yesterday for a workamper position with their security. I was taken under the wing of a department head at this resort and hope that this will be a positive thing. Disney also sounds good for this winter. We are to arrive there mid-January so we hope that this will not be too late to be considered. I have heard that the company is so large that this should not be a problem. We plan to leave Florida the first of April and go to Mt. Rushmore. We should spend a week or so there and then return home in time to start working at Waldenwoods May 1, if hired. Looks like this weekend will be a grandson soccer and another grandson football weekend. With the weather turning like it is, we can only hope that the blowing, wet and cold hold off for a while. That happy lady you see here is Carol with Monty at Waldenwoods this summer. If we workamp here in security, we will set up here for the summer. This has been one of our favorite campgrounds - large and grassy lots, level sites, nice lake, great people and near home.

October 13, 2007 Grand Blanc, MI

Today will be a day to see a grandson soccer game and maybe another birthday boy grandson. Then it is on to planning the winter's journey to Florida. We have decided to apply at Disney for part time employment so we will look for a campground near Orlando. These are great days!

October 11, 2007 Traverse City to Grand Blanc, MI

All good things must come to an end. This trip to northern Michigan was a very pleasant break. It rained and was blustery during this entire trip but we saw some beautiful countryside and met with some fine friends. The fall colors were not as peaked as we hoped they would be. There were many areas where there were equal numbers of trees with green, colors and baren. The leaves had already been blown off the trees. Combine that with the rainey, dark, cloudy days and the colors did not seem very bright at all. We said "Bye, bye" to the Grand Traverse Bay, looking at wind, rain and small whitecaps on the water. Lost big at a casino ($10) but saw that they were building a huge casino and hotel complex up here. It is right next to the older one, which is not tiny at all. It has been quite a while since we have been up here and we remember when the first casino on M-72 east of Traverse City was a pole barn type structure. We met with some friends from the Montana Owners Club for lunch before leaving. They are full timers who leave Saturday for Florida by way of the Smokys. They are part time employees at Disneyworld and now we have the information needed to made our winter travel decision. We are going to Florida instead of Texas and are going to apply for part time work with Disney while there. If that doesn't work, we can just move our home on over to Texas from there. Wherever we end up, we will cap our winter trip with a trip to Mt. Rushmore in April. That has been changed enough so we hope to make it a reality this time.