Sunday, May 2, 2010

The Northern California Samboree











Hi there everyone,

I know, once again I have been derelict in my duties of keeping the family blog up to date. Well, don’t feel too bad, I haven’t spent much time lately looking at Facebook either. And though that may be all the rage with most of the population today, Facebook and Myspace has never really appealed to me. At any rate, here is an update for you. I’ve been feverishly trying to get my latest edition of my book Campin and computing put to bed. And, regardless of how hard I try, it still seems to have more content being added to it every day. I just need to cut off the changes and send it to ‘press’ as they say.

This last week, we attended the Northern California Good Sam Samboree. We’ve had a great time here this week. We’ve met so many wonderful folks here and had a chance to re-connect with some wonderful people that we met down at the Southern California Good Sam Samboree. We got to reconnect with Smitty and Louise Smith as well as Duane and Patricia who are from Auburn and many others. We haven’t seen many of these folks for a long time, but we were so glad to see them once again. We have had a wonderful time. We met Clarence Tracy from (some town that starts with a ‘C’), a wonderful gentleman who we chatted with numerous times about Computer, sound systems, RV’ing, his service in World War II numerous other topics. We we’re honored to meet Geoff and Gayle Warr who travelled here from Australia and are touring north America.

We had an extra special bonus, Karen and Mike surprised us with a visit. They made the trek down from Ashland to come hang out with us. Lily one third place in the Best Costume for the Dog show competitions. One of the funnest activities at the event was watching the Blind driving competiton. This is where the driver is blind folded and the co-pilot so to speak tells the driver how and when to turn. You have to navigate a course without hitting anything. The team who does it the fastest wins. This has been a WONDERFUL week and we had a great time. Unfortunately, Sunday means we have to head back to reality. There aren’t any Samborees now until next year for the state of California, so we have a long wait until the next one, but it is worth waiting for. We’re thinking about maybe going to the FMCA Rally in Indio of next year.

Though we are home safe and sound, we can’t wait to get out on the road again.

Happy camping!

Eric and Carol!

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