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I made a mistake ???

6/18/2020

Click the pic. You might be glad you did, or you might not.

Billowing smoke hangs over the Tucson area from the Bighorn Fire, and looks pretty ominous even from the Fairgrounds. I reckon I'm safe here..... As long as the wind doesn't change.

I made an error [first one ever] when I said there was going to be a drive-in movie at the outdoor concert area next to me this weekend. It turns out this weekend, the drive-in movie is going to be at the race track, which is still the Fairgrounds. It's just a different area than I'm at. And then the weekend after that it's going to be here where I'm camping because I'm where the concessionaires will Park during the movie.

Then the weekend after that there's something going on here at the Fairgrounds with the country singer Garth Brooks doing a video concert, not sure what it is but none of it affects me of course because I'll be long gone [I hope]. So I don't have to move, and I can sit here until I leave Monday morning.

While I was re-upping, I saw a horse trailer pulling into the event center and asking the lady doing my paperwork about it she said she thought they were doing another Hunter Jumper thing this weekend. This sounded great to me because I should be all packed up and ready to go before the weekend, so a horse event will give me something to do. It seems odd somebody with a horse would show up on Wednesday and just hang around till Saturday, but who knows? Maybe I can poke around and find out what's going on tomorrow.

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This isn't a very good picture but I saw this bee-hemoth of a bee [see what I did there?] buzzing around and I thought it was a hummingbird at first. He didn't stay long and for obvious reasons I didn't want to get right up in his face so this picture is the best I could do.

Pima County Fairgrounds Tucson Arizona Picture

Sometimes the Fairgrounds looks more tropical than it does deserty.

4 Comments

Tim link

6/19/2020 09:21:40 am

Hi Tom,

Just stopping in to say "hi". Your website is looking really great and this comment box is much, much easier to type in now. I've been keeping up with your post, but surprisingly, it's been a lot busier since I've been working at home. Seems like every time I turn around, someone wants to have a video meeting.

BTW, it's only 9 months until I turn 62, which is a milestone in my retirement plans. Now, if this virus would just go away, I'd be all set. Here in the Northeast, the campgrounds aren't opening up, so no where to go with the RV. I've spoken to several of my RV friends and acquaintances here and everyone has cancelled their summer plans. I think next weekend, I'll just go up and spend the night in the Arctic Fox at the storage facility parking lot (the owner offered that I could do that, so will take him up on it).

Anyway, good luck with your trip out of the fairgrounds. Hope you make it to Colorado safely.

Tim

Tom

6/19/2020 11:01:26 am

Hey! Great to hear from you Tim, I've been wondering what you were up to. I'm glad to hear my blog is still working for you, some folks have had troubles seeing it, which may have been a blessing for them.

It seems to me if you have the ability to make money camped next to a beach under a palm tree just by having a video meeting every once in a while, you should be packed up, hooked up, and out the door yesterday.

Yes the Bat flu has definitely made things complicated even in the RV world and I think what bothers me the most is a lot of information I used to know about where to camp is no longer valid, and I don't know if that information is temporarily or permanently invalid. I'm pretty sure it's just temporary, but it's the not knowing that bothers me.

There's varying information on how busy the summer will be for RVers. some folks say that people aren't going to be RVing as much, or at all this summer. Other people are saying reservations are difficult to get because so many campgrounds are full already. I don't know which it is, maybe a mix of both depending on the areas you're in. My blog post today might give a clue to what's happening in the RV world.

If you can't go camping, spending the night in your RV and cooking some meals is the next best way of figuring out what you need to make your RV life comfortable. Sitting at home thinking about it is one thing, but cooking a meal in the RV and realizing you don't have a can opener is the best way to make sure your life on the road is a happy one.

Yes these are trying times for everyone, and is a real test for a full-timer, but being adaptable and rolling with the punches is the best way to enjoy RVing. And you may notice that even with the situation the way it is I still managed to be in a safe, comfortable place. Adaptability is the key, and to be adaptable you need to be free.

You stay safe also, and enjoy your night in the Arctic Fox.

Tom

OFM

6/19/2020 02:29:47 pm

I was waiting for the NM camping new rule to come out today. The camping is now closed until at least July 4. That takes care of my thinking of going into NM. Now I will concentrate on Texas until I leave for Alabama in late late July. Good luck with your trip north.

6/19/2020 03:21:55 pm

You're right today is the day that the New Mexicos State Parks bat flu rules expire. And I guess it looks like they've decided to ruin everybody's fourth of July holiday. It seems like folks would be better off being outdoors at a state Park than staying in the middle of Albuquerque in their apartment building watching the rioters loot a few stores.

Fortunately I gave up on the New Mexico state parks a while back so I'm just going to hop around New Mexico spending the night here and there. And I'm considering only going up I-25 as far as Socorro, then going north-east bypassing Albuquerque before I catch I-25 in Las Vegas and head north again. I'm being extra careful because it would only take a handful of rioters to create a traffic nightmare at the I-25 I-40 interchange in Albuquerque and because of their ongoing problems I just as soon stay far away from that town.

Since you're not leaving until late late July that should give plenty of time for things to get a lot better so maybe when you hit the road the riots will just be a bad memory, and the bat flu a minor problem.

Tom.... Getting toooo anxious to get moving again.

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