Travel Blog

Sue:

How are you liking the new website? I hope you do, because we love it, and Phil has spent a lot of time getting it up and running. As you can tell, we're trying to gear it towards RV'ers, but for our friends and family, and loyal readers who aren't RV'ers yet, you'll still have this blog to come to and read about our adventures. But check out the site regardless of your RV-ing status. We'll have the photo gallery up and running, we'll have our blog archives finished one of these days, so you can go back and read the old ones, we have RSS capabilities (there you go, Jesse), and lots of other things to check out. If you've visted this new site already, you may have noticed we had about 50 rotating pictures up top of the pages. Well, I decided that was too many, and I would miss the Pavlechko's Pic concept, so I pared it down to five pictures at a time. That way I can put new pictures up on a regular basis, and you'll be able to see the new ones without wading through too many pictures. For the old ones, we will actually have a photo gallery on this website. I know you've heard that before, but I think I mean it this time. We also have RSS capabilities for this site (there ya go, Jesse), and lots of other cool features, so have fun. And don't forget to leave comments. It's unrestricted except for a security code you'll have to put in to prevent spam comments, but once you comment it should be up right away. We've missed your feedback, so take some time and do that, would ya?

Now a rundown on what we've been up to lately. The most exciting thing that's happened lately is we finally found diesel that's cheaper than unleaded. It's about freakin' time. We haven't seen that since we bought the Beast. That was my fault, though, because I was bragging to my friends and coworkers that I'd be paying less for fuel than they would, and I nah-nah-nah-nahed a bit. That karma...get's me every time. But I've been good lately, so she's starting to treat me better. Some other news is that I was about one number off all five numbers in the PowerBall a couple weeks ago. Seriously. That kinda sucked. Other than that, I've been working pretty steady for the past few weeks. I'm back at the same place I worked last year. It's nice to work with those folks again, however, I'm working with numbers and spreadsheets and I'm starting to get a bit sick of it. But I only have two days left, so I'll live. And I'm grateful for the work because things were ugly there for awhile. Phil wasn't as lucky as I was temp-job-wise. I think the temp agencies are a bit sexist here. I got calls all the time for receptionist gigs, but he didn't. So he's been working on his mom's yard, and boy did he do a great job. It was a lot of work, but he had fun. He got to drive a bobcat too, and he was glad for that. Now we can put that on our resumes.

We'll be leaving for Alaska next Friday morning. Wish us luck. We are itching to be back on the road, but sometimes the trip up makes me a bit, well, freaked, so think of me and send good vibes our way.

It's Willoughby's 5th birthday tomorrow. She's almost as old as I am now. My little girl. So in honor of her, and because I really don't have any new pictures of anything except the animals, I'll finish this blog off with them.