Quiet Birthday Celebration

Birthdays really do become less significant as you get older. Probably, the last significant birthday I have had was my 21st, when I could buy a drink and not worry about being carded. Now, it is pretty much just another day. I guess they begin to get significant again when you turn 90, as people are amazed you are still around. My birthday was celebrated yesterday with a round of mini golf which we had already paid for last week, and a caramel Frappe at McDonald's to top it off. Here is a picture of Josie teeing off on one of the holes on the Livingston course. We had played the Stanley course last week, and we saved the tougher course until last:

It was a lot tougher than the first one. There were several holes where it was impossible to get a hole-in-one which you always feel like you should at least have a chance. We both scored worse than the first time.

Yesterday was also our last full day here in Kissimmee. We leave today for Wauchula and the Peace River preserve of Thousand Trails for 4 days. It will give us a chance to travel around some of the more southern towns in Florida. We want to at least spend some time checking out the Fort Myers area. Then, we travel back to this general area to Orlando, where we need to be to make a return visit to the Camping World store for our "final" repair on the jacks. We hope that the jacks can be manipulated a couple more times without causing a scare that they may "drop" while traveling. It will be such a relief when they are finally repaired.

It wasn't mentioned in yesterday's post, but we visited the Doubletree display at the show in Tampa and we ran into the individual - Dan Tauer - that is a VP of Marketing and part owner of the Company, and is the individual that was responsible for our purchasing our rig in Pomona, CA., in October, 2007. We told him about the Lippert Components run-around we have been getting and he was appalled. He asked us to send an eMail to his Operations VP (Tom Peck) and tell him about the problem, as he will get all over Lippert to make sure things get done - fast. Unfortunately - or fortunately - we believe that we are at the end of the effort and it wouldn't do any good at this point. Our parts are now in transit, and these should be the parts that finally fix the problem. If they aren't, Mr Peck will be notified along with Dan Tauer again.

Our plan is to leave here between 10 -11 AM this morning. The drive is a short one (60 miles), so we should arrive in the early afternoon. Until tomorrow from Wauchula, FL...