Dick Eastman's RV

Back Home Again

If you have been reading this newsletter for a while, you already know that I have been traveling a lot. In fact, I left home last January 2^nd and have since been living in a motor home most of the time. Occasionally, I leave the motor home locked up in a campground some place and jump on an airplane to fly to more distant destinations for a few days.

In the past five months, I have visited 22 states plus two foreign countries. I also had emergency visits with three dentists, two heart surgeons, and two motor home mechanics. It has been an "interesting" trip!

At 11:30pm last night, I returned home. I plan to remain here for about six weeks. Perhaps things will settle down for a while.

I am Off to Cincinnati and Dayton

I guess it is the end of the snowbird season for me. This morning, I am disconnecting the motor home's umbilical cords and am headed north. I am driving to Cincinnati to attend the National Genealogical Society's annual conference next week. (See http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/conference_info for details.)

Google Maps says it is a two-day trip. I plan to drive slowly, stop often, and perhaps even do a bit of sightseeing along the way. Therefore, I expect my trip will require three or four days. I should end up in an RV campground in the outer Cincinnati suburbs, perhaps north of the city.

Humor in Telemarketing Calls

Sometimes a telemarketing call can be fun. Not often, but occasionally. I had such an occasion today.

The cell phone rang while I was sitting in my motor home, eating breakfast, in an RV resort just a few miles from Orlando. I answered the call and a salesman launched into a breathless speech congratulating me. It seems I have just "won" an all expenses paid trip to Orlando!

Perhaps I should point out that my cell phone has a Massachusetts phone number and I suspect the caller believed he was calling a Massachusetts resident. My cell phone's caller ID shows the caller has a 407 area code number, which I know is the Orlando area.