TC travels, 2014 TR, Pg 904, 2015 TR pg 964
Table of Contents Our 2009 travels started here on March 1, 2009 The first pictures appeared at page 15. We couldn't get our data card to work with our new computer. New Orleans and the Bayou c...
Forum Discussion
New Day.... New way
But, still my old tried and true way...
I reall want you to have the best experience possible.... si that you are informed if you get to an area that we have passed through.
Being retired we have a lot of time to travel the highways and especially the by-ways
We visit many places because I read or remember having read in the past some comment from a member of the truck camper forum
The more information that Janeet and I have the more likely we are to visit, and participate in the good things in an area... and we consider negative comments.... especially when they come from several directions.
2014 was the year from H8LL for us.... Janet had 4 surgeries and I was diagnosed with cancer and introduced to a hospice group... 10 months of shear terror
I took on a lot of projects.... mostly taking 1 on 1 intensive care of Janet.
She now has bionic eyes.... she has Multi-focal Lenses replacing cataracks in each eye... the are Fresnel Lens They are very good.... she will never have to weare corrective lens again (they wer about $2500 each on top of medicare.... but the pay back is about 4 or 5 years in no new glasses... except fashion sunglasses of course) Remember, she went from sight to very poor sight while we were on this trip.... she could read with enough bright light but couldn't see clearly very far
She had to have two defferent surgeries on the same shoulder She had the initial injury on the way to the coast from home by just extending her arm, lifting and pulling a 4' x 4' airline blanket in the cab of the truck
She also fractured a bone on her left foot and was in a boot for 6 weeks.
Life is funny... we can afford extensive travel if we work until 65 years of age or so.... but we start(ed) falling aoart at about the same time.
After 10 months of terror.... horrible tests.... Dr induced merca infection and weekly rants by the medical staff for surgery (finally ending in February 2015) I didn't have prostrate cancer. But then I never had. There was a misdiagnosis.... intentional or not... mixed up lab tests? mixed up records?
I went in with a list of questions.... and when I got through they admitted that I never had cancer but if I'd go ahead and have my enlarged prodtrate removed that I never would have prostrate cancer... Duh!
Surgeons make $$$ when cutting and they assured me that after surgery I'd of course be cancer free easy for them to promise... I never had it. Worse with the proceedure they wanted to do I would have a better than 50% chance of incontance... I don't want a diaper.
Now.... to the TR, and our truck and camper
they took a beating... bad roads, salt in the air on electronics, cusheons in dinnette 12 years old, ad misc other ills that needed repair
they would come to be called by me "Sanity Savers"
I'll post them later...
Please bare with me (us), this TR has been hard... nearly impossible... and I have just had bad stuff above my eyes it has been so deep.
If we can just get through 2014.... 2015 has been good, well if we can just keep the petty stuff at arms length.
I feel like the truck camper forum is family... extended but family. We have met some of you personally... hundreds of you.
Some have had profound impact on our lives.... most of the time with their wives. I could never name them all without looking at my contact list: The ones that always come to immediate mind.... Wayne, Jim, Rod, Ed, Derek, Steve, PJ, Bill, Ken, 3Tons, Budster, Jim Allen, Tim, Phyllis, Sharon, Suds, and many more. For most it has been their knowledge.... some their generousty... and some their kindness... and I guess a few their needs.
I want to "fix" 2014... please indulge me!
But, still my old tried and true way...
I reall want you to have the best experience possible.... si that you are informed if you get to an area that we have passed through.
Being retired we have a lot of time to travel the highways and especially the by-ways
We visit many places because I read or remember having read in the past some comment from a member of the truck camper forum
The more information that Janeet and I have the more likely we are to visit, and participate in the good things in an area... and we consider negative comments.... especially when they come from several directions.
2014 was the year from H8LL for us.... Janet had 4 surgeries and I was diagnosed with cancer and introduced to a hospice group... 10 months of shear terror
I took on a lot of projects.... mostly taking 1 on 1 intensive care of Janet.
She now has bionic eyes.... she has Multi-focal Lenses replacing cataracks in each eye... the are Fresnel Lens They are very good.... she will never have to weare corrective lens again (they wer about $2500 each on top of medicare.... but the pay back is about 4 or 5 years in no new glasses... except fashion sunglasses of course) Remember, she went from sight to very poor sight while we were on this trip.... she could read with enough bright light but couldn't see clearly very far
She had to have two defferent surgeries on the same shoulder She had the initial injury on the way to the coast from home by just extending her arm, lifting and pulling a 4' x 4' airline blanket in the cab of the truck
She also fractured a bone on her left foot and was in a boot for 6 weeks.
Life is funny... we can afford extensive travel if we work until 65 years of age or so.... but we start(ed) falling aoart at about the same time.
After 10 months of terror.... horrible tests.... Dr induced merca infection and weekly rants by the medical staff for surgery (finally ending in February 2015) I didn't have prostrate cancer. But then I never had. There was a misdiagnosis.... intentional or not... mixed up lab tests? mixed up records?
I went in with a list of questions.... and when I got through they admitted that I never had cancer but if I'd go ahead and have my enlarged prodtrate removed that I never would have prostrate cancer... Duh!
Surgeons make $$$ when cutting and they assured me that after surgery I'd of course be cancer free easy for them to promise... I never had it. Worse with the proceedure they wanted to do I would have a better than 50% chance of incontance... I don't want a diaper.
Now.... to the TR, and our truck and camper
they took a beating... bad roads, salt in the air on electronics, cusheons in dinnette 12 years old, ad misc other ills that needed repair
they would come to be called by me "Sanity Savers"
I'll post them later...
Please bare with me (us), this TR has been hard... nearly impossible... and I have just had bad stuff above my eyes it has been so deep.
If we can just get through 2014.... 2015 has been good, well if we can just keep the petty stuff at arms length.
I feel like the truck camper forum is family... extended but family. We have met some of you personally... hundreds of you.
Some have had profound impact on our lives.... most of the time with their wives. I could never name them all without looking at my contact list: The ones that always come to immediate mind.... Wayne, Jim, Rod, Ed, Derek, Steve, PJ, Bill, Ken, 3Tons, Budster, Jim Allen, Tim, Phyllis, Sharon, Suds, and many more. For most it has been their knowledge.... some their generousty... and some their kindness... and I guess a few their needs.
I want to "fix" 2014... please indulge me!
