Travel Blog

Remember when toys used to inspire kids to greatness? Let's play doctor (not that kind of playing doctor), fireman, teacher, etc...Today's toys are a little more...shall we say...realistic? I stowed a toy yesterday that depicted a girl on the cover of the box with a platter of food, an apron and a hairnet-type hat. Her mouth bubble said, "May I take your order, please?" That's right. This toy wanted kids to use their imaginations and be...wait for it...a food server. And before all you cafe workers get all upset with me, I'm not bashing such jobs. Read about some of the jobs I've done lately. I just would like to think kids would have a few years of thinking they could be president before the cold, hard reality of mediocrity crushes all their ambitions.

What else have I seen on the shelves that amused me? There's Debbie Harry Barbie. Darth Tater (yep! Mr. Potato Head as Darth Vader...very cute, actually). Genuine fake owl pellets where you open the pellet and assemble bones to make the animal the owl ate (you can choose between bird, mole and vole). And laser tag seems to be making a comeback. I don't know if Barney from "How I Met Your Mother" had anything to do with that, but it seems really big.

A cool thing happened today. Phil was walking down an aisle and this young woman stopped him and asked him if he was Phil from RVfullhookup? It seems that she and her boyfriend started fulltiming this year, and learned about the Amazon job from our website. How cool is that?

Not much else to report. All but two of our friends are gone. Nick and Liz took off this morning to head to PA. And the two friends that are left are on the Outbound side of things, so we never see them. But don't feel bad for us. We still know the way to the Chinese buffet without any of them, so we'll be ok.