We've Been Soooooo Busy And Enjoying It!

I've been meaning to get this updated much more often. But, with our lifestyle literally doing a 360 in the last quarter, this task is unfortunately way overdue.

My humble apologies...

After my last post, we...

• moved into our new roving home over Thanksgiving weekend
• had our moving sale on December 6th
• (I-Vicky) had shoulder surgery (bicep tendon repair) on Dec. 9th
• closed on our house December 17th (without a hitch)
• went to Teague over Christmas to see our daughter & granddaughters and it was so nice to just go down there in our own home. There is a city park in Teague that we stay at (with full hookups) for $10 a night. Can't beat that! And, it's only two blocks from the kids!
  

Now for the big news... Bob retires next Friday, February 6th. Yippee!!! We are BOTH extremely excited about this. That said, we will not be sitting around the campfire twiddling our thumbs. Oh no...

January 16th we left for San Antonio and met up with our AGS Publishing trainers at Traveler's World RV Park. More about that in a minute. Traveler's World is a very well maintained and busy park. Paved streets, large concrete patios with a nice picnic table, palm trees, and nicely manicured river-graveled lots. Yes, they rake the gravel carefully into place almost daily.

You can always tell when you stay in an upscale park. People actually keep their dogs on a leash when they walk them and pick up after them. Remember, we have two little Chihuahuas, Jack & Jesse, and we never have them off leash and we always pick up after them. I hate stepping in poop and not knowing it until I get inside the coach... YUCK!

Why is it -- in some parks people read the rules and follow them faithfully, while in other parks people don't think the rules apply to them at all?

In a perfect world, everyone would think of the other person's welfare as a result of their actions. Wouldn't it be nice! Okay, I'll get off my soapbox.

Anyway, we arrived in San Antonio Jan. 16th and started training for our new "life on the road" and new job the next day. After 5 mind-numbing days we graduated. Our trainers took us to a lovely Italian restaurant downtown. We drank way too much wine -- but it was so good. Larry Chuippi and his wife Nancy Raimondi are great people!

After our training ended on Jan. 21st, we stayed at this nice park one more day just to relax and go next door if we had any questions while we were preparing for our first two jobs. In this economy it will be nice to be able to travel and see places while supplementing our retirement income as we do.

Since our job will be creating visitor guides for RV parks and campgrounds and selling advertising to pay for these guides, my copywriting skills will be invaluable. I'm going to be the one to go out and help area businesses grow their business by attracting the RVers from the area -- by selling the advertising.

Bob will take care of most of the paperwork and the creating of ads. I'll do some spec ads to show to prospective clients. It will be weird to have me going out to work and Bob staying at home. I'm already training him to keep the place clean! Poor guy :-)

Next stop, Teague, TX (our home base) to visit our daughter Bobbi and our two granddaughters Corynn & Katelyn. Then we arrive at Montgomery, Texas at a KOA Kampground for the annual AGS Publishing meeting. We're really looking forward to this. We'll be meeting all of the other company ICRs (Independent Contractor Reps) and I'm sure we'll come away with a lot of valuable information & insights.

Till next time,

Vicky & Bob Heron (Capt. Jack & Jesse James)

• How to work & live wherever and whenever you choose!