And in this corner measuring in at ...... OR What's 3 or 4 more modifications gonna hurt

After we finished the workshop at Camp Bee, we headed to Red Bay, Alibam.  It's time to get our yearly repair list taken care of.  Here's the list for this trip:

Red bay trekker issues:

1. Driver's side BR slide - bearing on bottom rear has fallen out.

2. Front Carefree awning still not retracting completely 

3. Front drivers side electronics bay still gets wet during rain

4. Rear upper drivers side turn signal comes loose 

5. Rear driver's side ride height leveler needs adjusted to within specs - the unit is out of tolerance and so it beeps incessantly.

6. Dining Room chair broke again

7. Body work near engine exhaust pipe.  A piece of tire retread bounced up and hit it.

8. Panel next to refrigerator 

9. Dead Bolt on Entry Door.  Siezed up and broke.

10. Toilet not holding water.  

11. Rear PASSENGER slide - corroded contacts.  This causes the slide to go out crooked (NOT a good thing), so we can't use it.

12. Service AquaHot

We arrived here on October 29th.  They just called us Friday, November 13th to tell us they can get us into the bays to begin repairs this coming Monday (November 16th).

Now you might think that waiting around is a bad thing, but that itsn't so.  We've taken the opportunity to get 3 more modifications made to our rig to provide us additional interior storage.  You may remember that when we first purchased the trekker we had 4 or 5 modifications made to improve usability and increase our interior storage.  Here's the link for you to "go back in History" and relive it: RV makeover part un.

So, without further ado, here are the 3 modifications we've had done this trip:

Our Master Bedroom TV Hide-A-Bureau

The Over The Closet Bureau Hutch

The Back Closet "Hide-Away Shelving Area"

Lord willing, they will get the work on the rig done by the first week of December.  

Over the long thanksgiving weekend we are going to drive our car down to Steve and Kazumi and Neo's new home in Santa Rosa Beach in the panhandle of Florida.  Its about 5-6 hours from Red Bay, Alabama to down there.

Also, on December 5th, I will be holding a seminar on the Book of Revelation and Daniel, chapter 2-9.  That will be an "all-day sucker."  We are beginning @ 8:30 AM and going till 4:30 PM and taking an hour off for lunch.  It will be at the Saucer Creek Church of Christ over in Dennis, Mississippi about 17 miles from Red Bay.  That should be a hoot.  I've got notes I'll give to everyone that attends (right about at 100 pages) - 78 pages on Revelation and the balance on Daniel.  They are the class notes I used to hand out when I taught Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation at the Cape School of Preaching in Cape Town, South Africa.

If they get done our rig repairs by the 3rd of December, after the class is taught we will head home to Mission, TX.  We HOPE to be able to attend the Sojourner get-together that the Blair hold in Pearland, TX (just south of Houston) on the way there.  

Ready, Set, Go Man Go! OR Videos of a full Camp Bee

No doubt our beloved minions have seized the opportunity since being edumacated regarding needing to have the correct CODEC to watch our uploaded videos to have downloaded the necessary files.  So, today we are going to reward your obedience by posting the video we took of Camp Bee filled to the brim and overrunning with Sojourners.  So, without further ado, here is your longed for Audio-Visual feast:

Camp Bee Full #1

Camp Bee Full #2

Camp Bee Full #3

Camp Bee Full #4

Camp Bee Full #5

Camp Bee Full #6

o/` o/` "North, to Alaska Goin' North the Rush is On" o/`o/` OR our 2016 Sojourning Schedule

When last we posted it was the videos of an virtually empty Camp Bee.

ALERT! ALERT!

We understand that some of our blog followers could not view the videos as they were posted.  Well, how can I put this kindly .... Ummm, UPDATE YOUR COMPUTERS?!?!  The videos that we post here are always in .MOV formats.  This is a standard video CODEC.  Codec is "COder DECoder shoved together into "CODEC".  A Codec is "a device or program that compresses data to enable faster transmission and decompresses received data."

When you make a video the device you are doing it on doesn't care how much space it takes up.  It just keeps recording.  If it is an apple iPad (like we used for the video) it uses M4V Codec.  However the video was 502 Megabytes long and the LONGEST video allowed on this blog by google is 100 Megabytes, so it had to be broken into 6 chunks.  Also, because Google and Apple are competitors M4V (an Apple CODEC) is NOT uploadable to this blog.  This is because Google hates Apple and Apple hates Google and GOD FORBID that for the sake of their common customers they should get along and support one another's software and hardware.  So, we have to run the videos through a video converter to post it onto this site.  We chose the MOV codec because its a very common one.  So, if your WINDOWS computer could NOT view the videos on the last blog posting go onto the internet (OH, wait you ARE on the internet) -- go onto the internet on your windows computer and perform a search for:

"Windows MOV codec software"

a myriad of programs will come up (some free) that will allow you to install a MOV Coder-Decoder ("Codec") onto your windows computer.

Back to our posting.

Anyway, the NEXT blog post will be the videos of a virtually full Camp Bee.  This blog posting will be about our Sojourn Schedule for 2016.

We decided that next year we would seize the opportunity to make our RV "pilgrimage" to Alaska.  For most people that RV full-time and many part-timers too, making a trip to Alaska is on the proverbial "bucket list."  We ain't gettin' no younger, so we decided we'd better make the trip while we could still drive well. From our home in Mission, TX to the sojourn we will team lead in Homer, Alaska ("the end of the road") is 4571 miles.  If it were only that simple!

So, here's our Sojourn Schedule for 2016:

February 18th - March 3rd, 2016 - Port Lavaca, Texas

March 17th - March 31st - Downey, California

April 1st - April 14th - Yosemite Bible Camp, Oakhurst, California

June 2nd - June 16th - Homer, Alaska

July 21st - August 13th - Rupert, Idaho

October 10th - 20th - Camp Bee Workshop

Once we leave Mission to head to Port Lavaca we won't be back in Mission until August.  Thank goodness we have great neighbors, a rock solid security system and live in a gated community!  We will travel 10,286 miles DIRECTLY from one location to another, but that doesn't even begin to add in the side trips we plan to be taking:

Yosemite National Park
Death Valley
Joshua Tree National Monument
The Redwood Forest of Northwest California
Crater Lake, Oregon
Olympic Peninsula in Washington State
Mount St. Helen's
Denali National Park
Fairbanks, AK
Yellowstone National Park

and who knows how many other interesting side trips along the way.

So, I expect we will put 13-15 K miles on our rig next year and who knows how many extra on our car.