Final Push

Yesterday was a day of follow up at both the Southwestern Eye Center and Out of Africa. Josie's eye is almost back to normal and we dropped off the new hire paperwork for her new job at Out of Africa. She will begin sometime during the week of October 26. Our hope was that we could fly to Chicago during that week and visit with Patty, Mark and the grand kids for several days. After spending quite a bit of time searching for flights on the Internet, we decided that the cost was too high for us at this time. The airlines have been steadily raising their fares, and the best we could find would have cost us over $1K to travel with the gas, parking and air fares. We called Patty and suggested a spring visit between our jobs at that time. That was a bummer!

We also notified Distant Drums of our decision to pass on their offer for the winter. It didn't make sense to spend two days a week working in the office just for the site. I figured the value of the site translated into our making about $5.45 per hour for the time in the office. Them ain't good wages! Steve, the manager, understood and said we could return if our situation changes. So, it looks like we will be spending the winter in the two membership campgrounds on a rotating basis.

We also received a message from a campground in Tennessee, Caney Creek RV Resorts, that was voted the best campground in Tennessee by Good Sam in 2007. It is a beautiful campground on the water with a marina and great amenities. This is a place where we sent a resume several weeks ago and had an initial phone call stating that they were interested in us, but we needed to get back to them the next day. You may recall that this was a message that we received three days after it was left. Well, it seems they are still interested in us for the time frame of late January to May. The biggest problems for us are twofold: suppose the Out of Africa job turns out to be a huge winner, and, do we want to travel to Tennessee in the winter. This looks like the kind of campground where we would enjoy spending a long term commitment. We will talk to the management today.

We can see that the Arizona Elk Society has moved into the Ramada here at the lodge and are pretty well set up for their Youth Elk Hunt. Today begins the final push, the final work week. It should be a busy, and long, weekend...