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  • Geezers in Paradise
We may live in paradise, but we are longing to revisit the incredible mountains, deserts and wide open spaces of the American West. Join us! We'd love to share our adventures with you. Lue lisää
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    The Plan!

    7. syyskuuta 2021, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 88 °F

    Plans? Plans? We don' need no stinkin' plans! This is our plan: Ready or not, Tuesday evening we hook our beloved 12 foot trailer, alias the geezer-mobile, to the car. Wednesday, as early as possible, we pull out, hit I-10, and head west.

    OK, OK ... we DO have our first 3 campgrounds reserved. We want a trouble-free first few days, driving further than we would normally, to escape the South. Day 4 we rest up in Lawrence, Kansas. Not only is it not in the South, but Google assures us they have many artisan bread bakeries, good grocery stores, and a nice selection of brew pubs. At that point, we will consult the stars, throw a few bones, and decide what's next.

    Scenery? National Parks? Well, all we know is that there's lots of that stuff out West. We shall see what we shall see!    Lue lisää

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    The first hickups of many to come

    8. syyskuuta 2021, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F

    What is an adventure without horrible monsters, terrible drama, and especially heartfelt emotions.

    We thought the worst that could have happen occurred when our A/C died two days before we were suppose to depart. Fortunately a very nice young man was able to come that very day, on Labor Day no less, to repair our A/C. With our house well on its way from being one of Dante’s levels of hell back to our own little piece of Eden, we wished him well, paid him a hearty tip for saving our bacon, and sent him off to ride into the sunset. So we were sure with that one potential disaster out of they way, we would have fair winds at our back for the entirety of our journey.

    But…

    On the drive today, we crossed over a railroad track. I wish I had had the foresight to take a photo of this particular crossing. Heather was driving at the time and with her normal devil may care elan, blithely headed up, up, up the slope, over the crest, and down, down, down the far side. Me… I hung on for dear life, sure that as we approached the heavens on the way up, the angels were going to take us up to see our Maker. But then, at the very top, looking out over the far reaches of everything we could see, there was a terrible noise, as if some monster from the old legends had come back to life, jaws the size of continents, teeth the size of mountains, had taken a bite out of our trailer. Then, once over the top of the railroad crossing, I was sure that we must not have met with His approval, and were being cast into the very depths of Dante’s Hell that we had just escaped two days before. But once again, Heather saved us from certain death with her skillful driving.

    When we got to our campground, we looked for evidence of our near death experience. Sure enough, one of the feet of our trailer was crushed. I am so glad that Heather was driving. Once again, saving our bacon with her steely nerves, and good looks.

    We then proceeded to look at our blog… or look at the hash we had made of it. While trying to figure out what could be done, Heather showed remarkable poise and calm. The attached photo proves that she can be calm at the worst of times.

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    Early morning departure

    9. syyskuuta 2021, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 68 °F

    Boring post alert!

    We entered Central Time Zone yesterday, but our bodies are still on East Coast time. We had set our alarms for 6, but woke up at 5. So we leave the Gander RV Campground at 6 am.

    Heather adds: it was practically PITCH BLACK when I took that photo, but you’d never know it! My smarty pants know-it-all new iPhone has this fabulous low light auto-correct, completely eliminating the ONLY drama to be found in this post.

    Also, a note on the boring posts: We do them for ourselves to prevent future disagreements about where or whether we did what and how. Not that we would EVER disagree, but you can’t be too careful!    Lue lisää

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    Welcome to Mississippi!

    9. syyskuuta 2021, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F

    Third state in 3 days. We stopped at the lovely Mississippi Welcome Center and found some strawberry jalapeño jam that was loose and luscious looking. We had to have it! No dice. You can only buy it at the farm.

    So here we are, and almost didn’t see it. But sharp-eyes Sweet found one tucked away on another shelf. HA! They tried to keep it all to themselves, but the geezers triumphed!    Lue lisää

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    Brick and Spoon in Tupelo, MS

    9. syyskuuta 2021, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F

    Tupelo is the birthplace of Elvis Presley, and people must really celebrate a lot going by the Brick and Spoons declaration they have sold 24,361 Bloody Mary’s since 2018. And they close at 2:00 in the afternoon. Either that, or they are famous for their anti-oxidant rich hair of the dog.

    Well, though we have lots to celebrate, we also have over 4 hours driving left to manage. So Gordon settled for the shrimp n cheese grits with gulf shrimp, peppers, garlic cream sauce, poached egg and toast points. Heather tried to keep pace with her corn, crab & sweet pepper crepe.    Lue lisää

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    Hiccup number … uh … are we losing count

    9. syyskuuta 2021, Yhdysvallat ⋅ 🌙 79 °F

    As we were enjoying our wonderfully delicious meal at the Brick and Spoon, Heather remembered that on a previous trip through Tupelo, we had eaten at the Neon Pig and thought maybe it might be near by. Sure enough, it was only 200 feet away. So after finishing our meal, we walked on over to the Neon Pig. They serve food, but also have a wide assortment of jellies, jams, pickles, and meats for sale. We found a jar of Autumn Pear Preserves and a jar of apple butter. We are very particular about our jams, we like them to be loose. So many jams have so much pectin that they are as solid as a cow pie in winter. We much prefer a more springtime consistency. Anyway, we got are our jars and went to the cashier. She had lovely blue hair and regaled us with how she took some pear butter, blended up with fresh pears and peaches, and then spread that over cheese cake. I asked if we could come live with her, and while she was pleased at the attention, the thought of two more mouths to feed convinced her to thank us, but also, it was not meant to be.

    About 30 minutes later we stopped for gas, as you can well imagine is something we do fairly often. I was excited to see that they had ethanol free gas. I got out my wallet, got my credit card …. uhhh …. looked for my credit card…. uhhh…. looked again…. uh, Heather…. uhhh…. my credit card isn’t here, can you check. Well, she took everything out of my wallet, “nope, it isn’t here”. I take every thing out of my wallet, nope, still not there. Hope springing eternal, Heather again removes everything from my wallet, again not finding the errant card. Me, not trusting myself or Heather, checks my wallet contents again.

    I know the last place I used the credit card, the Neon Pig. I try to remember where I put the credit card after paying for the jams, but draw a blank. Note to self in the future, never have a conversation while paying for something. Focus only one the credit card! So I call the Neon Pig to have them cut up the credit card. But the nice lady says “sorry, no credit card here.” Oh poop, it must be some where! I’ve already searched through my pockets, but I search again. I consider having Heather search my pockets, but decide it would either look like the police were frisking me or someone would call the police because they though lewd acts occurring.

     Well, nothing to be done but call the credit card company. A very nice lady named Maria in LA cancelled the credit cards and is Fedexing new cards to us at Lawrence KS KOA on Saturday.

    So another adventure, this one with a happy ending. It will be if the credit cards get to us on Saturday.

    One might think that this trip is cursed, but these misadventures are the spice of our journey.

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    Driving through the Ozarks

    10. syyskuuta 2021, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F

    We started the day by being hit in the face with a blood red orb on the horizon that was as large as I’ve ever seen the sun. But try as we might, it eluded all our photo attempts until it was just a bright yellow and 1/3 the size.

    We were not on the freeway for much of today’s drive, and were really able to experience the huge ups and downs in elevation of rural and wooded North Central Arkansas. Gordon asked, “Are we in the Ozarks?” By golly, I think we were! But again, all attempts to capture the countryside photographically came to nought.

    Finally we were driving through this teensy tiny town of Pindall which seemed frozen in time and quite authentic. Gordon remarked, “Haha … that general store sign says “Cinnamon Rolls and Worms” “Stop!” I hollered (that’s local for screamed). “I need a photo!” But Gordon kept driving. “And look,” I again hollered, “one of those stone buildings we’ve been seeing so many of … and a garden with a GIANT ROOSTER!”

    Gordon kept driving. In a flash, the little town was in our rear view mirror. “Gordon, we need to turn around.” He put on his sad face, and said, “I’m afraid we just might need to let this one go.” (Sad, sad face.)

    But Gordon, it said, “Cinnamon Rolls and WORMS!” (By now we are 5 miles down the road.)

    Gordon says “I didn’t know you really meant it.” (More sad face.)

    I put on my best whine: “But we have to get SOME photos of today’s drive!” (SUPER sad face.)

    Gordon: Big sigh.

    We drove about 5 more miles til we could find a turnaround on the small windy road, and I did get some photos. I was a tiny bit disappointed to discover that cinnamon rolls and worms were on two separate signs.    Lue lisää

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    Lunch at the Springfield Ave Cafe

    10. syyskuuta 2021, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

    Heather had a Santa Barbara Burger with all the fixings including bacon, avocado, and secret sauce. Gordon had an avocado BLT. We both had perfectly seasoned crisp fries served in tiny deep-fry baskets. Heather took one bite, and exclaimed in surprise, “it’s really char-broiled!” An unexpected and unassuming find!Lue lisää

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