Some sobering news late this afternoon. Two biopsies confirm that Nancy has Inflammatory Breast Cancer, a nasty and aggressive variety of cancer that readily attacks surrounding tissues. She will undergo 8-12 weeks of chemo and radiation treatments, followed by a mastectomy and whatever follows that. We are hopeful that it hasn't spread too far yet and that it can be beaten at this fairly early stage. Meanwhile, our travel plans for the spring and early summer are on hold.

We just returned from a fun 3 days at The Great Outdoor RV Community in Titusville, FL, affectionately known as TGO. We took our coach and visited friends Pat & Jim Dick (who live there) and our daughter Sheri and her boyfriend came as well. Ate, drank, laughed, toured the Kennedy Space Center and enjoyed a fine meal at Portafino's, a small Italian ristorante.

At the Space Center we rode the Space Shuttle Launch Expereince, a ride derived from the Shuttle Simulator. WOW! What a ride! It rumbled and roared through ignition and lift off, pressed us back in the seat at near 3 gravities, jettisioned the External Tank and cruised to the MECO (Main Engine Cut Off). What a hoot!

Repairs finally finished!

Hooray!! The repairs to the bathrooms are finally finished and we have running water again. Not to mention new floors throughout. I'm still working on one bath because we elected to remodel it a bit while it was all torn up, but it is still usable. I'm putting in a closet where we had a standard tub before -we don't need two full baths and we do need more storage space. I've built a partition across the old tub area and have purchased two nice wood & glass bi-fold doors for it. The closet inside walls have been finished and painted, the new doors are painted and the shelving purchased but I still have to hang the doors and paint the exterior of the partition wall. Hope to have it finished off in another couple days.

We are going through an upheaval at our stick house. A water line burst under the floor last October and soaked the subfloor and insulation for a couple days before anybody noticed (we were away in the coach). A strip of floor about 4 ft wide and 25 feet long was severely weakened (the subfloor was just particle board). Unfortunately that strip runs under two bathrooms, a closet and the utility closet where the water heater lives. Repairs are estimated at $8500[ so far] and now that the repair is underway we have no water in the house and no showers or toilets that are usable. Good thing we have a motorhome in the yard! And good insurance to cover the cost!

Launched our blog today. This will be a combination of our RV Travels and snippets of our life and times.

First, a photo of ourselves with our 2004 American Tradition motorhome. We travel in the coach 6-7 months per year and spend the rest of the time at our Florida home in the Ocala National Forest, about 15 miles east of Ocala, FL.