Winging It

Easy Way to Search ObamaCare

October 24, 2013
/ genealogy
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

I am a long time family history researcher and, in my genealogy searches, I have become very familiar with the One-Step Searches of genealogy sources that Steven P. Morse has generously made available. Now Dr. Morse has turned his search methods to a project that will be useful to more than just genealogists. Go to […]

End of the RV Season

October 22, 2013
/ RV
/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

Temperatures here got below freezing last night so, it is a good thing that I put the Kodiak to bed for the winter a couple days ago. In preparation for that, I added a RV Pump Converter Winterizing Kit to the water pump. That makes it easy to run the antifreeze through the water lines. […]

Camping World RV Rally

September 17, 2013
/ RV travel
/ By tom

42 RVs owned by members of the Camping World of Chicago Owners Club, plus another 4 occupied by Camping World staff, descended on the Wagon Trail Campground in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin for their 2013 Door County rally. The 22cd annual event was held from August 21-25 and Georgia and I attended for the first time. […]

AirVenture 2013 – Part 2

August 29, 2013
/ airshows flying travel
/ By tom

Thursday morning I got the campground shuttle over to the bus park then got on the Seaplane Base bus. The atmosphere at the lake is completely different from that at the main show area. It is very peaceful and laid-back out there. If you go to Oshkosh, you should spend some time at the Seaplane […]

AirVenture 2013 – State of Bliss

August 16, 2013
/ airshows flying
/ By tom

Part two of our AirVenture experience will be coming soon. In the meantime here is Slick’s video compilation for 2013. He always does a great job of capturing the essence of Oshkosh. http://youtu.be/N3ggFwtccmY

AirVenture 2013 – Part 1

August 12, 2013
/ airshows flying travel
/ By tom
/ 1 COMMENT

This was the first time that Georgia and I planned to spend the whole week at AirVenture and the first time we would take a trailer there to live in for that week. We hitched up Sunday morning and made the three hour drive to Sleepy Hollow Farm Campground in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. There are a […]

Wisconsin Dells 4th of July

July 12, 2013
/ RV travel
/ By tom

The trailer was ready to go by the night of the 3rd. Refrigerator cold, food and clothes loaded and truck fueled. We planned to get up and get an early start to Wisconsin Dells on the morning of July 4th. So much for plans. We woke up that morning to the sump pump battery alarm […]

Indiana Amish Country – 2013

May 31, 2013
/ travel
/ By tom

The long Memorial Day weekend gave us the opportunity to take the travel trailer on a road trip. I added a vacation day on Tuesday to make it an even longer weekend. We hitched up on Saturday and towed to Elkhart, Indiana, in Amish country. The rural areas here are dotted with Amish farms and, […]

TV Spagetti

May 7, 2013
/ By tom

I don’t know who designs the TV connections in travel trailers but I have had to modify all three that we have owned. The Kodiak has both cable and satellite inputs on the outside. The roof antenna and cable inputs came into the TV cabinet over the dinette and went out to an outdoor TV […]

More RV Stuff

April 25, 2013
/ By tom

Here are some other things we are now carrying in the Kodiak travel trailer. There never seems to be an end to the wishlist. Mr. Long Arm is an extendable pole that we use for a couple things. With a hook on the end it is useful for reaching things in the middle of the […]