Herman’s Hermits

There’s a lot of fun stuff to do at these rallies. We’re usually too busy to take advantage of much of it, but we always try to attend at least one evening entertainment. This year it was Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits. I LOVE them! And, I think he’s cuter than ever The best entertainment are those that are also having fun themselves … or at least look like they’re having fun. And Peter Noone sure did. Guess what?! He even keeps a blog! Check out the Peter Noone website.

So, Jim took some video of the event and I edited it. Here is the Youtube version:

If you have any problems viewing it on Youtube, you can try Herman’ Hermits on our Picasa Web Album.

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Herman’s Hermits

There’s a lot of fun stuff to do at these rallies. We’re usually too busy to take advantage of much of it, but we always try to attend at least one evening entertainment. This year it was Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits. I LOVE them! And, I think he’s cuter than ever The best entertainment are those that are also having fun themselves … or at least look like they’re having fun. And Peter Noone sure did. Guess what?! He even keeps a blog! Check out the Peter Noone website.

So, Jim took some video of the event and I edited it. Here is the Youtube version:

If you have any problems viewing it on Youtube, you can try Herman’ Hermits on our Picasa Web Album.

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Herman’s Hermits

There’s a lot of fun stuff to do at these rallies. We’re usually too busy to take advantage of much of it, but we always try to attend at least one evening entertainment. This year it was Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits. I LOVE them! And, I think he’s cuter than ever The best entertainment are those that are also having fun themselves … or at least look like they’re having fun. And Peter Noone sure did. Guess what?! He even keeps a blog! Check out the Peter Noone website.

So, Jim took some video of the event and I edited it. Here is the Youtube version:

If you have any problems viewing it on Youtube, you can try Herman’ Hermits on our Picasa Web Album.

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Geeks on Tour Newsletter: Subscriber #1,000!!

I’ve been waiting to hit 1,000 subscribers for our newsletter. I think that is an important milestone for our business development. Not that we make any money from the newsletter … it is free and will always remain free … but it represents the number of people who know about us and value our information. I think building your reputation is an important prerequisite to making money.

Anyway, we did hit one thousand this week, and, as luck would have it the 1,000th subscriber happened to be here at the rally and he attended our Google Earth seminar. So we had to bring him up on stage and commemorate the event by presenting him a gift and taking a picture.

Thanks Don! We hope you enjoy the newsletter.

And, we had a packed house for the Google Earth seminar too!

We just love having an audience! The bigger the better.

And, aren’t they a good-looking bunch too?!

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Another day at the Rally

The people who do the morning exercise have been at all the same FMCA rallies that we have. We like them so much that we’re willing to get up for a 7am class! To find out more see their website.

Our first seminar was a repeat of yesterday’s Internet on the Road with Jim teaching.

Then came my turn:

The weather here has been truly California Awesome! 50s at night, 70s during the day. Brilliant blue skies with those majestic snow-capped mountains as a backdrop. We moved to a slightly less conspicuous (and quieter) spot. Still very close to all th action. Still with electricity.

We came home once during the afternoon to find a honey-wagon dumping our holding tanks. We told them that we hadn’t ordered that, fearing an unwanted charge, or that someone who did order it wasn’t getting it. His first reply was, “Well, I can’t put it back now!” He told us that their instructions were to dump everyone in our section – about 5 coaches. Wow, now *that’s* special treatment!

We found a little park on a hill nearby to walk Odie. Here’s the view looking out over some of the RV parking area.

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Rally Seminars and Blogs

We gave our ‘High Speed Internet on the Road’ seminar yesterday to a crowd of about 400 people here at the FMCA rally. Here’s Jim showing how we can ‘tether’ our cell phone to the computer and get High Speed (EVDO Rev 0) Internet access.

We have a total of 7 seminars to present during these 4 days. That’s a record for us. Here’s the lineup, 7 and 13 are the rooms we’re in:
Mon 10:45-12 High Speed Internet (7)
Tue 9:45-11 High Speed Internet (13)
Tue 11:30-12:45 RVers Need a Blog (13)
Wed 11:30-12:45 Safe Computing (13)
Wed 1:30-2:45 Photos w/Picasa (13)
Thu 9:45-11 Google Earth (13)
Thu 11:30-12:45 PhotoStory 3 slideshows (13)

In our in-box this morning came the best motivation for giving our Blogging seminar today:

Thank you for your excellent blog seminar at the Gypsy Rally. You made everything so clear. Using your instruction, we have started our own blog, replacing the periodic e-mails which we have been sending to family and friends for several years. We are so proud of our effort that we wanted you to see it. Thank you again for enabling it.

Keith & Kathy at:

http://www.travelswithkandk.blogspot.com/
; Keith Sheffler

Thank YOU Keith! And … great blog!

We call our seminar, “Every RVer Needs a Blog” and we’re working on making that a reality.

I also tell people that I would keep this blog even if nobody else looked at it. It is such a joy for ME! If you tell your stories by sending email to all of your friends, there is no way for you to browse thru the total story. I just love going back to the blog from a prior time and reviewing all the cools stuff we’ve seen and done. And, what a memory aid! Uhhhh … what was the name of the park we stayed at that had a replica of Stonehenge? All I have to do is go to my blog, type ’stonehenge’ in the search box and I find the posts about those days. Ah yes, Peach Beach – that was the place.

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Our Parking Spot

We’ve been giving our seminars at this particular rally long enough to get special treatment! The attendees parking lots are spread out over a couple square miles, yet we got parked right at the heart of the place! It never occurred to me that we would get signage here.

Nice huh? And, the food stands are right behind us. mmmmmm, barbecued tri-tip and loaded baked potatoes.

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Travel Day

When we left Quartzsite, we knew we would be parked at the Pomona Fairgrounds for 5 days with no hookups other than electricity. We wanted to get our holding tanks dumped, and our water tank full as well as our propane tank. We found the ‘RV Pit Stop’ that could handle it all!

We headed west on I-10, a road we’ve covered many times before. I didn’t think I would take any photos, but these scenes are just to awesome.

You see some interesting rigs on the road too. After getting a look at the old guy driving this rig, I have no doubts that he used to live in that VW bus he’s towing!

I’ve photographed these windmills many times before, but I still couldn’t resist.

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Quartzsite en route to Pomona

It’s 400 miles from Casa Grande to Pomona. That’s too far for us for one day! And, guess what is exactly halfway? Quartzsite! So, we got to spend a day with our Quartzsite family.

We always feel at home here. The last time our rigs were together was a year ago in Tampa, Florida. We were both in Florida for the winter last year. Now, they’re headed to the Seattle area and we’re headed back to Florida. Lynne calls this being ‘bi-coastal!’ It’s always a treat to get together. And, it was such a bright sunny day, I had to soak up a little of it. Trying to get rid of this cold. Yes, *another* cold! I don’t think we’ve ever been this sick over a season.

Then, I stayed home while the rest went to a weiner-roast at the local airstrip. There are lots of people who fly ultra lights. Check out Lynne’s blog to see when she took a flight herself .

Jim caught a pretty nice shot of Saguaro Sunset.

Ok, it’s time to ’stow and go.’ We’re headed to Pomona for the FMCA International Convention. We’re scheduled to do 7 of our seminars there!

Thanks for sharing your home with us Dick and Frankie!

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Lights Out

The power went out this morning. It was out throughout the entire park, maybe even some of the city. We were sitting at our computers, as usual, when our UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) started beeping at us about the lack of power. Jim went outside and determined that it wasn’t just us, nobody had power.

If you’ve ever been in a power outage situation you know how astonishingly dependent we are on electricity. The advantage of an RV is that it’s built to be self-sufficient. We just pushed the button to start up the generator, and we had power again. Yeah.

But the Wi-Fi was out – the Access Point equipment had lost power too. No problem, we have our own Internet with our satellite dish. I love our home! We felt pretty smug.

Then the power came back on.

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