Tag Archives: Arcturus

Our 2001 Alpine motor home, 34 ft. long.

Merry Christmas

December 24, 2006 Gary

Today we are in Austin, Texas, tomorrow we get on Amtrak, the Texas Eagle, and head for Springfield Illinois. We will be leaving Arcturus in the Elks parking lot here in Austin and we will be gone for a week visiting Neil’s family in Petersburg Illinois for the holiday season.

Tonight we headed out on foot to find a nice restaurant for Christmas eve dinner. Our first two choices were closed, but we stilled scored a winner at Romeo’s Italian Restaurant after about three miles of walking. I guess you could say it is a little presumptuous to go out to dinner without reservations in a strange town, but it keeps perfectly within our philosophy of “Life is a Journey.” Our journey is full of new adventures.

After supper the evenings excitement was making some Christmas ornaments for some lucky family members. This consisted of painting Georgia’s hand with paint and making a hand-print on the ornament. This was great fun, but I think there are hand prints in some other less desirable places also.

We will be sending this blog off from the Texas Eagle once we get settled in, so I will be able to add some anecdotes from our train trip.

Christmas Morning:

Everyone up at 06:30: Drill master Gary was pushing to get ready for the taxis at 08:30: Neil cooked up all the left-overs for breakfast and we had ten minutes to contemplate our navels before the departure time. Continue reading Merry Christmas →

Travels

All Them There Relatives:

October 16, 2006 Gary

We are back on the road again, and our first stop has been in our home town of Spokane Washington. We have been making the rounds of all our relatives and friends in Walla Walla, Spokane and Colville in Washington, and Lucile and Nampa in Idaho. Continue reading All Them There Relatives: →

Travels

Fan Tails:

October 4, 2006 Gary

This is a fan-ciful story of what we have go through occasionally to get things fixed on our coach. A couple months ago I was going through my pre-flight check of the coach systems and I discovered that the power steering fluid reservoir was not up to the mark. Continue reading Fan Tails: →

Travels

Rising Water:.

August 11, 2006 Gary

On Thursday we picked up and began the move to the camp-out of our Plymouth Presbyterian Church. The first hint of something unusual was a streak of water across the floor. We wiped this up and looked in all of the cupboards for leaking stores. Finding nothing amiss, we shrugged and headed for Scappoose. At lunchtime Judy rinsed some lettuce and again we spotted water puddling on the floor. Only this time there was some lettuce leaves included. Oh-oh! Continue reading Rising Water:. →

Travels

Face Lift and Tummy Tuck:

August 3, 2006 Gary

September of 2004, almost two years and 29,000 miles ago, we first moved into Arcturus, our Alpine Motor Home. We have had many adventures in that time. In 2004 we were chased south by the snow and the rain and experienced the 100 year bloom in the Mohave Desert. In 2005 we crossed Canada and then circled through the southlands in the wake of Katrina and Rita. Along the way we have collected several dings. Continue reading Face Lift and Tummy Tuck: →