I'm working at the Tampa RV Super Show this week but have had a little time to walk around to look at some of the rigs. The RV show is held at the fairgrounds and it's huge ! There are rigs indoors and out...vendors, etc. A couple rows over from our booth is a rig that has a loft area that must put it at least 25' into the air. Has a toy hauler area in the back that enters from the side...just enough room for a single motorcycle but doesn't cut into the living space as much as the rear entry models. As you go from the rear "garage" towards the front of the rig, there are steps that go up to the loft area. Upstairs, it's like a screen room around the side walls, with zip up curtains, and a large L-shaped sofa in the area and a good sized flat screen TV on the front wall. Very cool !! I could see this being a neat camper at the racetrack for watching Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson duel it out on the track, while lounging on a comfy sofa and having your favorite cold beverage at hand.
I also got to tour through a 2 million dollar motor home that was gorgeous and very well appointed. Beautiful paint job on the exterior with a ceramic tiled shower with glass doors. The bathroom sink was a beautiful bowl like you see on HGTV in some of the high end homes they remodel. I wonder how many rigs like this will be sold during the show this week. In talking to one high-end coach company, he said that overall sales, this past year, have been down for the industry by around 30%. I read recently where sales this year are expected to be down at least 10%. If gas prices continue to climb, who knows where things will wind up.
We have three more days at the Show this week before we head home. It's hard being away from home for so long. It will be good to go back home.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Too many things...
Where to begin...I guess first I'll give an explanation, for those of you not in the loop, on why my postings have been so few and far in between. Basically we don't have internet where we are now but my new employer tells me he is working at getting that problem resolved. The public library, although close to us, is only open past 5 p.m. one evening a week so that is usually "internet night" for us. In the brief time that we are there, I have to catch up on e-mails, banking, etc. so consequently I don't usually get new posts put on the blog. We also have some pics of the Virginia countryside but I'm not able to upload them because our USB cord is the old style with prongs and I've botched up the port on our laptop that matches it. A new cord has arrived so soon i will have some new pictures on here.
Currently I am in Florida for my employer. I attended the Workamper Job Fair on Thursday and Friday. Thursday was very busy for us and I spent 6 hours continuously interviewing folks. Friday was not very busy. If you read about the 70 car pile-up on I-4, near Orlando....this was the highway we were supposed to come in on to get to the hotel. The guy with us used to live here so he knew a back route we could take to get here but it did interfere with attendance at the job fair, which was a shame. What a horrendous thing that accident was.
Tomorrow (Monday, we will leave here and move to Tampa where we will be set up at the RV Super Show. We will continue to interview for workampers and will also promote the resort. It's been really interesting talking to the different people that have stopped by the booth about where they are from, what they are doing now and how long they've been workamping. Alot of neat people in the world and alot of them are RV'ers...LOL !
Weather in Florida is great....high 70's today....cloudy with periodic showers. There is a downy woodpecker that hangs out in the tree outside my hotel window that I've enjoyed watching. It reminds me of when I had my house in Woolrich and had them come to the bird feeders off the deck. I love to watch birds. We've tried putting our bid feeder up outside the rig, in Virginia, but the ground is so sandy that every time the wind blows, it blows over the shepherds hook that it is hanging on. Guess I'll just have to hang it off the awning and eliminate the hook.
I've been researching New Years foods that are "traditions" for an event that I am working on that will have a New Year's theme. I thought the pork and sauerkraut were the All American New Years food for good luck....Not so. Seems in Virginia, they go to a different section on the food pyramid for their good luck charm....it's black eyed peas....Who'd a thought ? In my research I found out that other "southern" favorites for New Year's are collard greens, spinach, kale or mustard greens. This wouldn't seem to be much of a variation of the day-to-day diet of most southerners, would it ? The Japanese eat a special noodle as their good luck token. German tradition likes cabbage. I think, if my memory serves me correctly, that it was the Portuguese tradition that you needed 7 round fruits on the table, as the number "7" is a sign of good luck. For folks in the northwest, it's salmon or herring (pickled or otherwise) My oh my, what a variation on foods and sense of tradition....America is a melting pot in more ways than one. As I continue my research and polish up the final menu selections, it would seem to be pretty evident that the first course, or perhaps a cutely decorated party favor, wrapped in netting would be a healthy helping of bean-o for all the guests at this affair.
Currently I am in Florida for my employer. I attended the Workamper Job Fair on Thursday and Friday. Thursday was very busy for us and I spent 6 hours continuously interviewing folks. Friday was not very busy. If you read about the 70 car pile-up on I-4, near Orlando....this was the highway we were supposed to come in on to get to the hotel. The guy with us used to live here so he knew a back route we could take to get here but it did interfere with attendance at the job fair, which was a shame. What a horrendous thing that accident was.
Tomorrow (Monday, we will leave here and move to Tampa where we will be set up at the RV Super Show. We will continue to interview for workampers and will also promote the resort. It's been really interesting talking to the different people that have stopped by the booth about where they are from, what they are doing now and how long they've been workamping. Alot of neat people in the world and alot of them are RV'ers...LOL !
Weather in Florida is great....high 70's today....cloudy with periodic showers. There is a downy woodpecker that hangs out in the tree outside my hotel window that I've enjoyed watching. It reminds me of when I had my house in Woolrich and had them come to the bird feeders off the deck. I love to watch birds. We've tried putting our bid feeder up outside the rig, in Virginia, but the ground is so sandy that every time the wind blows, it blows over the shepherds hook that it is hanging on. Guess I'll just have to hang it off the awning and eliminate the hook.
I've been researching New Years foods that are "traditions" for an event that I am working on that will have a New Year's theme. I thought the pork and sauerkraut were the All American New Years food for good luck....Not so. Seems in Virginia, they go to a different section on the food pyramid for their good luck charm....it's black eyed peas....Who'd a thought ? In my research I found out that other "southern" favorites for New Year's are collard greens, spinach, kale or mustard greens. This wouldn't seem to be much of a variation of the day-to-day diet of most southerners, would it ? The Japanese eat a special noodle as their good luck token. German tradition likes cabbage. I think, if my memory serves me correctly, that it was the Portuguese tradition that you needed 7 round fruits on the table, as the number "7" is a sign of good luck. For folks in the northwest, it's salmon or herring (pickled or otherwise) My oh my, what a variation on foods and sense of tradition....America is a melting pot in more ways than one. As I continue my research and polish up the final menu selections, it would seem to be pretty evident that the first course, or perhaps a cutely decorated party favor, wrapped in netting would be a healthy helping of bean-o for all the guests at this affair.
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