Catching up--A Whole year in one post!

Wow!  This playing catch up on this thing is something!  This will narrow a lot of it down, not a lot of adventure over the next year.  We spent the middle of August until Dec. 23 working at Amazon.com.  This was our second season there!  It was not entirely an uneventful trip back home to North Carolina.  We had pulled into a gas station to refuel, when we started to leave the auto park on the motorhome went out and wouldn't disengage.  It was Christmas Eve, so there were no services available.  There was a Camping World 20 miles south of us, but they had closed earlier in the day for the holidays.  I got on the internet and looked up a diagram of the auto park, showed it to Randy and he was able to crawl underneath the motorhome and release it.  Of course this meant we had no parking brake!  We had to chock our wheels when we parked.  The next morning, shortly after getting on the road again, it started to snow.  We were on I-40 about 100 miles west of Knoxville, TN, the further we went the more it snowed.  It was a real nail bitter crossing the mountains around Asheville, but we made it to our destination safely.  Don't want another trip like that again!

Not fun to drive a motorhome in!

But it was pretty!

We stayed in NC until the end of March, took a job at a campground in Hillsville, VA.  We wanted to stay as close to NC as we could because my son was graduating in June and I couldn't miss that.  We only stayed there for 1 1/2 months, thought we could do it but we didn't like giving up 18 hours a week for our site.  We met some really nice people there,  Mark and Sheri Harris, Doug and Judy Moore, Larry and Diana Collins just to name a few that we keep in touch with through email and Facebook.

We left Virginia around the middle of May and took a job in Pennsylvania, about 25 miles north of Lancaster.  At first I was excited about the area, I had heard so many people talk about how beautiful it was.  It was just okay for me, I mean lots of nice green farm land, blah, blah, blah.  I can see nice green farm land back home in NC, so I wasn't very impressed!  However, it was pretty cool seeing an Amish person going down the road in a horse drawn buggy.

An Amish Farmer plowing his fields

At the campground where we worked for Adventure Bound, Eagles Peak, we had no cell or internet service unless we hauled our computer up to the office and sat out on the front porch.  Not something I enjoyed, when I want to get online I want to get online right then from the comfort of my home!  No cell service meant if there was an emergency in the middle of the night, family couldn't get in touch with me! 

We made some great friends there, Richard and Linda, Sandy and Steve, Butch and June!  We endured 3 long months there and decided to leave and head toward Coffeyville, KS again for our 3rd season at Amazon.  If it hadn't been for the 3 couples mentioned above I'm not sure if I would have stayed that long!

While we were there we made the 9 hour drive back to NC to attend my sons graduation!

My son receiving his diploma!

Left to Right- my daughter Candace, my son Ricky, my daughter Whitney

Me and my baby boy!

My grand baby "Olivia"

My grandson "Brandon"

My grandson "Trey" and granddaughter "Haylee"

Graduation and seeing family was awesome though!  There was more but I can't remember everything, and I'm trying to get caught up and I'm getting close, very close!