Thursday, November 6, 2008

Conference

A day of inspiration. Talks on “futurizing” the firm, creating the “next generation” accounting firm, operating in an internet environment, and crafting the perfect website. All this stuff is so technical, there is no way to absorb it all this fast, or even learn any of the specific tools. The best hope for me is that I’ll emerge with some understanding of which tools might apply to what we do so we can investigate them further.

Tomorrow; more.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Trip

Tuesday. Port Aransas to Austin. Wednesday. Austin to Fort Worth. We’ve gone north for a conference. North in the Jeep. Since we’re going to stay at the conference hotel anyway, we didn’t need to bring the coach. We’re Jeeping and hoteling it.

We had a nice visit with Ron and Linda at their new house in Fort Worth and dropped off Annie. They’ll watch her for us while we’re here. Then it was off to the conference hotel, the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas, just northwest of Dallas.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Padre Island

Our lunch.

His lunch.

Padre Island

A few more images from a weekend drive down the Padre Island National Seashore beach.

Padre Island

Images from a weekend drive down the Padre Island National Seashore beach.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Gulf waters

There are two kinds of RV sites here: pull-ins and back-ins. You can tell which is which by where the utilities are. On RVs, the utility hook-ups are always on the left side, so if you look at a site and see the utilities on the left, it’s a pull-in site. If you see the utilities on the right, it’s a back in site.

Pull-ins only work for motorhomes. Back-ins work for motorhomes or trailers. So usually, you find motorhomes in the pull-ins and trailers in the back-ins. You have to reserve the back-ins for trailers, because what happens to the people with trailers if there are only pull-ins? If you pull your trailer in to a spot with your truck, then how do you get your truck out?

But then there must be an exception to every rule, and here is the exception to this one. First time I’ve ever seen a trailer in a pull-in spot. Don’t know how they did it. No truck tire tracks on the grass. It was like this when we got here.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Anniversary

Happy anniversary to us. Four years. Four years ago today was our first day of full-timing. We drove the motorhome from our house in Louisville to Dakota Ridge RV Park in Golden; a distance of twenty-five miles. It was cold and snowy. We stayed in town a few more weeks before our first foray out of town.

Many miles and adventures since. We’ve come a long way.