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I think I deserve a minivacation

7/13/2018

I went to the DMV this morning and renewed the tag for the truck. Normal people don't have to do that because they can renew by mail or on the Internet. But since us folks that own older diesel trucks are required to have an emissions test, we have to report in person to give the government minions the paperwork showing that we passed.

But I was told this morning that the DMV is installing some new software, obviously at great expense, in August of this year that will enable all the different emissions testing places to email the results to the DMV so that people like me will be able to renew our tags on the Internet like normal folks. This was very good news to say the very least.

Since I've taken care of this whole tag renewal problem and can relax for a while, I feel that I deserve a minivacation, and have been considering another camping trip. Someplace nearby that's very popular, and I haven't been to in many many years is Rocky Mountain national Park. It's only a few miles northwest of Denver and would be a great three or four day getaway.

Now Rocky Mountain national Park isn't someplace that the Arctic Fox can't go, in fact I'm pretty sure it's full of RVs at the moment, which is one of the reasons I would like to leave the Arctic Fox behind. Rocky Mountain national Park is without a doubt one of the premier places to visit in Colorado and I'm guessing it gets pretty darn busy during the peak summer months which just happens to be about now.

But I believe that since I'm able to take my truck most anyplace, and with the ability to stay in a tent in the small national forest campgrounds, I will stand a better chance of having a fun and stress-free camping experience than trying to find a place to park a 30 foot trailer.

This minivacation hasn't even reached the planning stages yet, it's still just a concept that's slowly coalescing in my mind. In the past concepts have coalesced so slowly that they ran out of my ears before they could completely coalesce, I hope that doesn't happen to this concept because I feel it's a good one.

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2 Comments

Barney Ward link

7/14/2018 05:34:53 pm

I think you deserve a major vacation.

Tom

7/14/2018 06:28:10 pm

My definition of a major vacation is to pull the Arctic Fox to someplace that I want to go but don't need to go, and stay there for several weeks.

But at this particular moment I'm unable to go running around for long periods of time because of the things that I have to accomplish while I'm in Denver. While I'm here during the summer I try to get things done that are easy to do here and more difficult to do on the road, not impossible, just more difficult.

Out of the various things that I need to do I've so far only accomplished two of them. I renewed the tag for the trailer and I renewed the tag for the truck. This leaves me with changing the oil in the truck, and this time I'm going to switch to a full synthetic oil like Rotella T6. I need to change the fuel filter in the truck, and get the tires rotated at big O since that's where I bought them so they do it for free. I need to finish signing up for the VA. And last but not least I need to get all my paperwork to my accountant sometime in September, I know that sounds simple, but I'm a procrastinator so nothing is simple.

All of that means that I can't stay gone for long. It doesn't bother me to take a minivacation for a few days, but I get a slight twinge of guilt if I think about going someplace for a month and leaving all my responsibilities behind.

I do it this way because once I get those things out of the way in the Summer I have almost no responsibilities left to do in the Fall, Winter, and Spring, so I'm able to travel hither and yon, Free from worries, stress, and responsibilitys. By the way, hither is a great place, but yon is too cold in the winter.

So even though I to believe I deserve a major vacation, my sense of duty, responsibility, and my unending desire to stop global warming by running my air conditioner with all my windows open, prevent me from leaving my current location for more than a few days at a time.

Tom.... My life's a vacation, and that's why it's toooo much fun.

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