Ok lets keep the ball rolling while getting you caught up on the RV property journey. Here is the link that will take you to Part 4 on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/atN_fr45xqk
We will ask again that if you do head over to our channel to take a second to comment and maybe hit the thumbs up button while there. Heck why not subscribe as well LOL!!
Ok, enjoy and have a great rest of your weekend.
Ok welcome back!!!
Now that we have shared part 1 and 2 about our new RV property journey, I guess you have guessed that part #3 was coming soon LOL!!! Here is the link that will take you to that on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/bD7Z3z5npFQ
We do really hope you enjoy the video’s and most importantly we hope that it might help someone in some way that is thinking about doing something like this.
And of course because YouTube has really been our focus when it comes to sharing information, we hope that some of you might consider subscribing to our channel when you get over there. If you do please consider leaving us a comment and letting us know you are there. It would be interesting to us to see just how many people will make that leap. And it will help us know if we should keep this blog available as well.
We hope everyone is planning something fun for the weekend!!!
Ok, I thought it might be nice to catch you up a little more on our RV property. Like in most parts of the country getting through the county red tape was a challenge but we got through it and we had a lot of work to do, still do, to get the property where we want it to me be.
Anyway here is a link to part of what we went through, I will be sharing a series of videos but we really hope you will check us out on our YouTube channel and become a subscriber to really keep us with what we have been up to.
Here is the link. https://youtu.be/-yzDqWbrwWk
In our last short update I shared a video about changes in our RV lifestyle. I thought I would share a explanation of what happened to me in my medical emergency that was the icing on the cake. Here is a link to that video on our YouTube channel. I hope it explains a little of what happened and we hope you decide to subscribe to our YouTube channel and catch up with what has all been going on. Here is the link. https://youtu.be/_dP7GngtYtU
Well it’s been a long time since we have added anything to this blog, in case you didn’t know we mainly put our stuff on YouTube now and have for a few years now. But we do pay the fee each year to keep the info available here, for how long I don’t know but for now we will.
Anyway I thought I might just stop in now and again to at least put up a link to any videos we feel you might be interested in and see what happens. Our hope is that they will still help someone in some way or at least entertain someone in some way and if we are lucky you might find your way to our channel over on YouTube and subscribe and follow along. Let us know in a comment your thoughts.
Anyway we have had a lot happen in our lives since we slowed down here and here is just one video that will catch you up at least a little.
Dang, I may have forgotten how to use the WordPress program it’s been so long LOL!!!
In our last update we were in Pagosa Springs Colorado where we stayed for two months, and we had a great time. We did a number of hikes, which we will provide a couple links to videos in our YouTube channel for you to check out if you care to. Once you get there you can find other video’s we have done as well.
After leaving Pagosa Springs we moved over to Cortez Colorado an hung out for 1 month staying at the West View RV Resort on the north edge of town. We will provide a link to a review video on our YouTube channel once it is complete in case you care to check it out also.
During our stay in Cortez we visited the Mesa Verde National Park a few times getting in a number of good walks,
We visited Hovenweep National Monument a few times getting in some nice hikes.
We took in the Canyon of the Ancients.
We made a couple day trips to Durango and visited friends and did a day trip to Telluride to do the touristy stuff and took a gondola ride.
We of course played a bunch of Pickleball while in Cortez as well LOL,,, big surprise I guess.
Video’s to come on our YouTube channel once edited.
After leaving Cortez we headed to Santa Fe New Mexico and spent 10 days. We of course did the touristy stuff once again, ate to much food, took a drive to Taos, Visited the El Rancho de las Golondrinas (a highlight for sure) AND visited the Bandelier National Monument and climbed more ladders than we have over the last 20 years LOL!!! These will make some great video’s that we will share at some point.
We don’t have all of the videos edited and uploaded to our YouTube channel yet but we will share them as we get them published.
After Santa Fe we headed to Albuquerque New Mexico where we will spend two weeks before heading back to Kansas to have our Toppers installed.
I do apologize for not staying on top of this blog, it has been such a big part of our journey since hitting the road but as I mentioned before I just get tired of paying to keep it online. We pay for the basic service and then we pay another $96 to keep the ad’s off of it in order to make it a more pleasant experience for the readers. And then as also mentioned before we just don’t get the comments that we see other blogs get and that has weighed on me.
Our dues are coming up again mid October and I’m battling myself to just let everything lapse and just go away or to pay for one more year and then certainly let it lapse. The only reason we would keep it going one more year is so we could share it with our YouTube followers (almost 1000 of them at this point) and maybe get a little more exposure and share the content with them before it goes away. We feel there is a lot of useful information that we hate to see go away. Just have not made up my mind yet.
As far as our YouTube channel we are right at the 1000 subscriber mark and have had well over 50,000 views so far and numerous comments come in on every single video which has been very enjoyable to me. And there is no cost involved and in fact once we hit the 1000 subscriber mark we have a chance to bring in a couple dollars each month. That never hurts and is a complete opposite of what the blog has provided LOL!!
Ok, that’s it for now. Thanks for sticking around and we really hope to see you over on our YouTube channel.
Ok, it’s been a while since doing a actual update on the blog but I at least wanted to share a couple links to new video’s we have uploaded to our YouTube channel. And I know I know, many of you do not like or even do YouTube and I’m sorry, it’s just where my head has been going lately.
I think because our subscriber count has been steadily growing and the interaction with viewers has been pretty steady and because it’s something new that has my mind working just trying to figure out something new and to be frank it has a possibility of bringing in a small revenue in the future (mad money if you will LOL) it’s just the direction we (well I) hope to go. Time will tell.
Anyway, over time we have had a number of people ask how our Ram 5500 handles our 5th wheel so we did a video of it on Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado and here is a link to that video. https://youtu.be/fLG0_a5YMnM
We have also been asked a number times about our Trailer Saver 5th wheel hitch so I did a video about it and here is the link. https://youtu.be/3xc842-ztn0
And we had a little BooBoo with out truck and 5th wheel do to Classy Chassis mounting our hitch to far up in the bed and here is a link to that. https://youtu.be/4UbS77-cZOg
And we toured the Bridges of Madison County while we were visiting the Knoxville Iowa area and here is a link to that. https://youtu.be/RkHvDFpRf2Q
There are a few more on our channel already that may be of interest and we have a few more uploaded and scheduled for release (one per week on average and we hope that some of you will head over to check them out and maybe even subscribe.
At this particular time we are hanging out in Colorado to avoid some of the heat that is hampering with so much of the country but actually it’s still pretty darn warm here, just not as bad as many are having it.
Our plan is to hang out here until the 1st of August and then we have choices to make, if our slide toppers arrive at New Horizons (the parts they did not have to complete our unit) then we will certainly head back to Kansas and have them installed (Kansas in August,,, good grief!!).
We also have a Bassett swivel rocker on order and need to swing through Wichita Kansas to pick it up BUT if our parts have not arrived at New Horizons we are considering checking into having the chair shipped someplace where we will be to avoid Kansas in August. We know shipping won’t be cheap but it will probably be less than the fuel it will take to get to Kansas and again, we can avoid Kansas in August. What would we do about the toppers, well we have options there as well I guess and they do not hamper our travels even though we really want them.
The only bad thing about not going to Kansas is New Horizons is holding a Ambassador gathering and we will miss seeing some friends that will be there but we can catch up to them elsewhere I guess.
On a side note we have really been enjoying our new home on wheels, it just fits us so well and is so homey.
Ok, I guess that’s it for this update and as we mentioned before we sure hope more of you will join us on our YouTube channel and subscribe once you get there. Our goal is to exceed 1000 subscribers and we have I think 544 at the time of me finishing this update, It took us a couple years to get this many subscribers on our Blog but only 6 months on our YouTube channel so far.
That’s it!!! Have a great day!!!
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After a darn good two weeks in the Kansas City area we decided to head towards Knoxville Iowa to hang out for a week.
We stayed at the Marion County County Park but we will do a separate update on that and other things like a night at the races, a tour of a Racecar museum and a few other things. In this update I think we will just keep the verbiage to a minimum and let the pictures do their own thing and this time if you would like to know more feel free to leave a question or comment in the comment section. I think the comment section still works but it has been so long since getting a comment I’m not sure LOL!!!
Oh, we are trying a little different format for pictures, let us know what you think.
We did a few other things than just look at flowers, we hit a couple old time bakeries, we toured a working windmill and a few other things but again we won’t take time to type it all out, we will just share pictures and if you want to more know more you will need to break down and ask in the comment section.
Well thats a bunch of tulips and it’s just the tip of the iceburg of what we saw but we are sure you get the idea. We will have a video up at some point in the future on our YouTube channel that could be fun to watch so keep an eye out for that. We will post a link when that happens in case you have not subscribed to our YouTube channel. Here is a link to our channel in case you want to check it out. https://www.youtube.com/c/DaveandDianeThrowingCautiontotheWind
Oh in our last update we talked about a place called Chicken N Pickle and we had a short video go live on our YouTube channel in case you care to check that out as well, here is a alink to that. https://youtu.be/N7n4uAjPIF0
Ok, thats it for now. We will be back with some more cool stuff from our Iowa visit so come on back.
As you could probably tell in our last update when we toured the Negro Baseball League Museum we were in Kansas City so I thought we better get caught up a little, not completely but a little.
First off we found a place to base from during or visit at the Worlds of Fun RV Park. Large pull through sites and not bad sized side to side either.
We did a video of the park and it can be found on our YouTube channel when it goes live on 5/14. It’s a driving tour video of the park so you might find it interesting. Here is a link to it. https://youtu.be/DE4fiOL1gkY
During our visit we took a tour of Arrowhead Stadium!! As some of you know I’m a huge Chiefs fan so this was a thill for me. Oh, we did a short video of that tour as well and it can be found on our YouTube channel and here is a link to that. https://youtu.be/Qk7g7y5FDZs
We also found a place to play Pickleball 3 mornings per week during our stay called Chicken and Pickle. They have 4 courts outside and 4 indoor courts as well.
We usually played on old fart days which is 55 & older can play for $2 each for 2 hours from 7am until 9am unless no-one has courts reserved after 9 and in that case we could play until the time someone does have the courts reserved. Otherwise they charge $20 per hour per court.
On Sunday after our play a group normally gather for a breakfast at Chicken & Pickle which we joined one morning. Breakfast consisted of Chicken n waffles and oh, a bloody Mary. I might mention that Diane is not normally a chicken fan but she said they the chicken here was the best she had ever had and ate every last bite of hers!!!
Oh, we also did a little video of the Chicken and Pickle in case you care to take a look but it will not go live until May 21st and here is the link to that video. https://youtu.be/N7n4uAjPIF0
As a side note I am trying to line video’s out 1 per week as you might notice, at some point when I get far enough ahead I will start posting 2 per week and might even line them up better with the blog but to be frank, the YouTube channel has taken the front seat because it is getting so much more action comment wise and subscriber wise for my efforts. But the blog will remain live at least until the end of the year.
We also did a tour of the Arabian Steamboat Museum which was very interesting, and yes we did a video of it but I used my GoPro which turns out sucks in low light so I need to work on that video some more and I didn’t take any actual pictures unfortunately. But when I get the video “IF” I get the video worthy we will share that link. OR better yet if you subscribe to the YouTube channel you could be notified when it does go live LOL!!
OH and BBQ!!! I informed Diane that during our stay to be ready for massive BBQ intake. For the record I didn’t hear any complaints when I said that nor did I as we ate our way though the city LOL!!!
We ate BBQ at Jack Stacks:
And they had a FANTASTIC Carrot Cake for desert.
And we ate BBQ at Q39:
And their Carrot Cake was non to shabby either LOL!!!
And we ate BBQ at Joes BBQ, Previously known as Oklahoma Joes. This used to be a gas station “still is actually” a BBQ joint and store so they used to say that Joes was a Hillbillies trifecta LOL!!! A place you could get gas, beer and BBQ all in one place.
Now we have gone and come back to KC at the time of this update so down the road we will be talking about some more BBQ joints here in KC but we will hold off on that until a future update.
For a little break away from BBQ we did drive across town to eat at Torchy’s. If any of you read our blog from our Texas visit you might remember how much we loved Torchy’s Taco’s so it was a no brainer for us to have them again with them so close to where we were staying, well across town close LOL!!
We will have a Iowa visit to update on first and man did we have full week there as well!!
We were also invited over to some friends house that we know from our winter playground that happens to live here in KC and we had a GREAT dinner followed by a couple rip roaring games of SWOOP. Unfortunately we were wrapped up in having a good time and the camera didn’t come out I’m afraid.
We did a few other things like a visit to Cabela’s and a couple other outdoorsy stores and we found and ordered a new swivel rocker from Bassett’s for our home on wheels and of course took a few driving tours which by the way wasn’t my favorite thing to do in a town the size of KC LOL!!!
I should also mention that we are LOVING our new home on wheels, it feels SO MUCH more like a home than our last floorplan that we are just over the top in love with it.
Ok, that’s it for this update. I will mention again that if are considering making a purchase on Amazon to maybe keep us in mind and maybe click on the Amazon link in our sidebar which will take you to Amazon where you can make you purchase like always WITH NO ADDED cost. But because we are Amazon affiliates we could get a slight kickback for the referral and those funds will be used to better our channels. Just give it a thought.
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Hello everyone!!! Diane and I went to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City the other day and thought you might like to check out a little video we did of our tour. It’s over on our YouTube channel. Here is a link to our channel in general https://www.youtube.com/c/DaveandDianeThrowingCautiontotheWind and a link to the video itself https://youtu.be/t6bWEzXdteE
Hey, we want to thank those of you that have subscribed to our YouTube channel, we are up to 400 subscribers in just 4 months and it took us almost 9 years to get 300 on our blog LOL!!! You can see why I’m leaning towards YouTube. Even though we have enjoyed doing the blog our YouTube channel is showing much more potential and getting much more activity so far compared to what we have had with the blog so we hope you all join us over there. We plan to do at least 1 new video per week there and maybe even two per week as we go along.
That’s it for now, have a great week!!!
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