lastpass

So many accounts, so many passwords: So a password manager seemed like a good idea. After reading several articles I choose LastPass. Good reviews and easy to use. See here and here for more information.

MagneShade

Just installed a Magne Shade to the front window. It is held on with magnets and you don't need a ladder to put it up or take it down.

Our Christmas Letter

Just thought I would post this as a way to give the reader an idea of where we have been and what we did.

 

Greetings from Sun-N-Fun Resort in Sarasota FL our winter home until Mid April 2015

We spent the winter playing Pickleball and Disk Golf with some time in the stained glass studio and not enough time kayaking. We left Florida in mid April and made our way to Goshen IN with stops along the way to get the coach serviced, some kayaking in St. Andrews FL and the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green KY.

Once we arrived at the Elkhart 4H fairgrounds in Goshen and were set up we decided to investigate the layout of the rally we were attending. The vendors were setting up and there was a coach we went to look at. That little visit put a wrench in our plan to attend seminars to learn about our motorhome. We decided to purchase a 2013 Holiday Rambler tag axle coach. Most of the rally was spent doing paperwork and moving into our new digs. We did attend a few seminars that were specific to the new coach and missed many we had planned to attend.

Early on in the purchase decision we decided to “move” to South Dakota since the sales tax would be 3%. So we made plans to travel to SD after the rally. Along the way to SD we did attend a Good Sam Rally in Marshall MI and visited with some of our FL friends that live there. Then it was on to Clear Lake Iowa to see the Surf Ballroom and visit the site of the crash site that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens, and JP Richardson in 1959. After that stop it was on to Rapid City SD and our new “home” at Americas Mailbox. While in Rapid City we took time to see the sites, Mt Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Custer State Park and many other places of interest. We took a side trip to Gillette WY to have an issue with the new coach taken care of. On our return from there we visited Devils Tower and the Geographic Center of the US in Belle Fouche SD. We also went to Spearfish and Sturgis. Once our business in Rapid City was complete we went to the Badlands. Of course there was the trip to Wall Drug, Minute Man Missile launch control, Sod house and just enjoying the Badlands.

Next was our visit to the UP, Upper Peninsula, with stops at the Corn Palace and the Spam Museum before we reached Duluth. We stayed several days in that area and visited several lighthouses and Maritime museums. Next stop was in the Marquette MI area where we met up with friends who winter in FL with us. We had a great time visiting with them an visiting more museums as well as a boat tour of Pictured Rocks National Park. Since this was the 4^th of July weekend we saw fireworks on the Marquette waterfront. The interesting thing is that Marquette is on the western edge of the eastern timezone and the fireworks did not start until 10:45. While in the area we visited the Youpers Tourist Trap in Ishpeming MI. much more fun than Wall Drug. After leaving Marquette we made a stop in Paradise MI and visited Tahquamenon Falls State Park, Crip Point Lighthouse and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum where we saw the bell of the Edmond Fitzgerald. Then it was off to the Soo where we watch several freighters lock through and enjoyed several meal of Lake Superior White Fish. We also attended a Pow Wow and took a trip to Mackinaw island. Our next stop was near Alpina MI where we toured several more Lighthouses took a tour of shipwrecks on a glass bottom boat in Thunder Bay.

Off to Traverse City to visit friends and play a little pickleball. We spent several days visiting Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. More lighthouses, museums, fresh cherries, new friends, good food, good beer. We moved on to visit more friends in Lowell MI before heading to Decatur IN for warranty service. On the way we visited the Auburn Cord Duesenberg museum and National Auto and Truck Museum.

After the completion of the work we went to Celina OH where we met up with friends we had not seen in two years. We spent time visiting the Bicycle museum, Airstrteam Factory and the Kitchen Aid Experience and Factory tour. Our next stop was Cambridge OH to visit the Cambridge Glass Museum. We also discovered the Hopalong Cassidy Museum. What a place. The next day we went to the National Road Zane Grey Museum where we had a guided tour. Very well done. On our way back to the campground we stopped at John Glenn's boyhood home where we were given a tour by his “mother”. When you are on the National Road make it a stop.

Then we were off to Douthat State Park in Virginia and visited several sites in the area including Humpback Bridge and the C&O Railway Heritage Museum before going to a Holiday Rambler Rally in Lewisburg WVA before we returned to Virginia to Camp host at Lake Anna State Park for the month of October. We then spent 10 days at Rock Crusher Canyon RV Resort where we kayaked with friends and saw several Manatees.