Last week Joyce and I welcomed Bob "Snakeman" Schnake for a visit. Bob and I served in the 604th Military Airlift Support Squadron at Clark AB, Philippines in 1974 and then again at Travis AFB, CA as flight engineers. Bob was in the 86th Airlift Squadron and then went on to fly C-130's at Yakota AB, Japan. Bob and I had a great time catching up on the "good ole days".
On Thursday we drove over to Weeki Wachee to visit our friends Rodney and Susan Ziehr at Cody's RV Park. You might remember that we volunteered at Cody's during the winter of 2008. Rodney and Sue have been going to Cody's for several years and are back there again this year.
On Friday we went down to Tampa and took in the Tampa RV SuperShow, the granddaddy of all the RV shows in the country. If you can name it, think it or just dream about anything to do with RVing, it's there. The show takes up the entire Florida State Fairgrounds so if you want to see everything, you should plan for more than one day.
If any of y'all have an extra million or two laying around gathering dust, I sure would like to have one of these: http://www.libertycoach.com/available-coaches/2014-Liberty-Coach-Elegant-Lady-759 or maybe one of these: http://www.marathoncoach.com/gallery/index.cfm?coach=1193&contemporary
All of the major manufacturers were in Tampa and from what I saw, they seemed to be doing well. I did hear one of the vendors who was selling furniture, that this show was the worst he has had in several years. However, you wouldn't know that if you visited the Camping World Store.
01/26/2012
On Tuesday we drove down to Orlando to meet up with Gary and Marsha Stevensen of Oakridge, OR. We had a beautiful room at the Armed Forces Recreation Resort, Shades of Green, located in Walt Disney World. They are in Florida to take a cruise out of Tampa.
View from our room.
Shade of Green.
On Wednesday we met Gary and Marsha at Universal Studios Orlando where we toured several parts of the park including the Harry Potter village. Now I know what the Harry Potter rage is all about. I just might read the books.
Enjoying a little refreshment.
The next day we drove up to Orlando to visit our friends Ron and Kattie Cutler from Payson, UT. We volunteered with them at Vail Lake Resort in Temecula, CA a few years back and they are in Florida visiting family. We had a wonderful time "catching up".
Out for supper with Ron & Kattie.
Ron is into making knives, some of which he brought with him. He does some fantastic work and of course, I had to get two of them.
My new knives. Beautiful!
Have you seen the Alfred Hitchcock film, "The Birds"? Well, they left Bodega Bay, CA and transplanted themselves to Anastasia State Park. Well, maybe just one. Anyway, there was one little guy who flew out of the tree directly behind our rig, landed on the ladder, saw his reflection in our rear picture window and either was mad at what he saw or, had romance on the mind. Then, he attacked! The window...a lot, numerous times! In fact, this went on for a couple of hours driving Joyce to the point of murdering the poor creature.
After it got dark the "Rage of the Crazy Bird" stopped, only to begin anew at the break of dawn. At this point I was thinking of borrowing my neighbor's 12-gauge shotgun and sending him to Bird Heaven. But, here is what I did to stem any more attacks on us:
Barry's Bird Attack Repelling Device, 1 each, Spec No. BarryJan2013BagDucktape
That's all for now folks.
Barry & Joyce
LOL...way to go birdman!
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