It's as if we never left...continued

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Continuing with our "The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same" theme:  

We've really enjoyed our stay this past week, and continue to compare how things have changed since retiring. But before I bore you with that:  We've gotten out to our home church.  We got to see our home church's service live vice a corner on our laptop screen.  (Hey, there really is full size people up on that stage!)  We've had dinner with Paul & Tricia.  Donna 's gotten to go nuts helping Terry with presentations at the hospital.  She's also gotten in a lot of "girl time" and some knitting classes.  Donna's travel time up to Baltimore, MD to visit Coco was measured in several hours vice the way too optimistic 92 minutes predicted by the Garmin.  And a new memory-foam mattress is on it's way.

We've gotten our Doc appointments done.  Since we do our doc appointments one after the other, it always helps to get our story straight before we go in to see the Docs.  I think we were successful this time.  Dr Church even let us in the same exam room at the same time.  Brave soul that Dr Church.

Really liking our new bicycle rack.  Unfortunately, we continue to buy things that, apparently, aren't suppose to be used on an RV.  Lippert Components Inc's Level-up system, Swagman bicycle racks, Yakima bicycle racks, etc.  We're gonna use the new Yakima bike rack, anyway.  Until it breaks.   (Actually, I understand the issue.  I'm just a little surprised that it's OK on the back of a Ford F450 pickup, but not on the back of a 5th wheel trailer that has an air-ride suspension.)  Along the same line, we're going to swap our 40 lb propane tanks to 30 lb propane tanks over the winter after we arrive in Gulf Shores.   The 40 pounders are just gettin' too heavy to carry around and lifting to install on the trailer when full.  I love the endurance, but man are those things heavy when full!

What else...road work on Route 3 appears to be done.  Nice job there.  Now Route 17 is a disaster.  I guess that's the "no pain, no gain" cliche' rule there.  At least they're tearing down the eyesores - which means we're now missing some landmarks.  We've lost our "situation awareness" a couple of times because of this.  They've moved the Navy Federal Credit Union branch.  Nice, nice job with the new branch, NFCU!

Anyway, we've noted as we cross the country that non-east coast people perceive the east coast folks as a little "weird".  I've decided the problem with east coast people is the time zone they live in.  East coast time zone stinks.  Where else will people stay up past midnight to watch their favorite TV show or sports game and then get up at 4:00 AM and ride a train an hour and a half to work.  No wonder things don't get done over here.  Their brains are mush.  It's the only reason I can come up with for the National Park Service trying to block pull-offs with orange cones on public-funded highways.  I mean, it just takes an idiot...  

And, yes, we're missing our corvette.  Later, David