Subj : Road Tripping - Redux
To   : Shawn Highfield
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Mon Oct 14 2024 17:15:20

Hi Shawn,

RH> It'll be a bit late because we're on the road but hope the birthday
RH> was happy. We're on our way up to western NY to visit Steve's mom

 SH> It was thanks!

RH> and siblings for a few days. Brought the camper so we can do our own
RH> meals except for a night out with the family and maybe a stop at our
RH> favorite sushi place.

 SH> Sounds like a plan!  Do you guys also sleep in the camper?  Or in this
 SH> weather do you go inside?

This camper is set up for 4 seasons; we have both a furnace (nice up
here in NY) and air conditioning. They'll run off of either electricity
or propane so we stay comfortable even when boondocking.


RH> colorful the further north we go. Your turkey breast with stuffing
RH> meal sounds like a good one for the weather but make my 'tater a
RH> while one please. (G)

 SH> I can do that!  I had both here. :)  Yes it was good, however we ended
 SH> up not having the stuffing due to both Andrea and I reading the box
 SH> incorrectly (neither put glasses on).  The turkey and sweet tater
 SH> turned out great, and I had some left over veg we heated up (like you
 SH> guys) in a frying pan on the burner. LOL

So donate the box of stuffing to a food drive and be happy you had
enough other food. What did you do for dessert?

 SH> very high becuase I am making all my payements, just means we'll
 never SH> get ahead.

RH> Running hard just to stay in place.

 SH> That's exactly it.

I know the feeling all too well. The last year before Steve went into
the Army (he went in, in 1983) we were living on $500./month plus $79.
in food stamps. Had a couple of very small girls and an even smaller
dog. We weren't even keeping in place; we were going backwards each
month.


RH> Believe me, we do have warm stuff packed! Checked out the long range
RH> forecast and threw in long sleeve shirts, jeans, a heavier weight
RH> jacket and so on. Going to have some rain the early part of the week
RH> too, hopefully not as hard as we had in Tennessee.

 SH> Good.  We've been okay here, running the two ceramic heaters one at
 SH> each end of the tin can.  The furnace hasn't worked in years, because
 SH> we bought this from the owner of the campground we are grandfathered
 SH> into a electric hot water heater and he looks the other way at the
 SH> electric heat.

We're supplimenting the camper furnace with a small ceramic electric
heater. Keeps the big furnace from running as much but keeps us warm.
Rain has stopped but it is definatly cool here.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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