Our Anniversary

Greetings fellow travelers and readers!  We're baaack...  Sorry about the delay, got a little derailed for our anniversary;  saw the Atlantic ocean, found the twilight zone, and was almost sold into human slavery, lol!  ( note to all of you, DO NOT try to workcamp for Holiday Trav-L-Park for Campers, they will NEVER let you go, let you take water breaks, or feed you, much less pay you any kind of wage to compensate for the work youve done past the point of paying for your campsite.)  We realize that this post should be for curing boredom, but as we havent really had any downtime to actually BE bored, guess you'll just have to be entertained by our lil detour, and have a laugh and hopefully a drink on us.

First off, " dogs at the beach"  our fearless shephard-corgi was TERRIFIED. 

But suprisingly, the lil rescue min. pin. whos scared of everything but his own shadow took to the ocean like a duck to water ( sorry, showin our hillbilly roots). 

We loved it, it was a great experience for him and funny as hell to watch him chase waves as he is used to RUNNING instead of chasing, you CAN teach an old dog new tricks and feel great doing it! 

 We  stopped to camp for the night at a campground and work off a $40 a night campsite.  Time for us to do a little math, readers- 2 workers doing lanscaping work at min. wage, from 9:00am til 3:00pm  is 6 hours, providing their own food, water and shelter and not using any of the camp facilities provided for paying customers left us...S.O.L.  Then on top of that, the woman that rules with an iron fist tried to call my husband a liar to my face and that just DON'T fly with mama!  Now, ya'll, words were NOT exchanged, but she could see the effect it had on me, long story short ladies, lets be a lil more careful when tellin our men what was said verbatim, cause guess what!  you'll end up sleeping in a ghetto in Norfolk cause your mans passive aggressive and his only option ( in his mind) was to give up a whole days work.  It didnt help that she was all well, you can stay here, join us...join us... super creepy.  Sorry crazy eyes, we ain't drinking that kool-aid, I dont care if its fruit punch flavor.

Long story short, from the ghetto with a night full of breaking bottles outside our van and dealers doing a commendable business in the hotel where we were broke down in their parking lot( not recommended btw) to rollin iron for over 300 miles today just on the kindness of strangers, between donations of gas and food.  Fresh mozzarella for loaded spring salads, all natural hippie snacks, REAL strawberry shortcakes, and premium roast beef sandwiches!  plus road snacks for days just from people donating us leftovers from their summer weekends! Gotta love it!  Better than a McBurger anyday, mmm, buddy!  Just goes to to show you when god closes a door, he gives you the opportunity to meet some of the most amazing and generous people you would never have met otherwise.  ( oh yeah, and the dogs got completely screwed cause someone gave us real dog food, so we dont have to supplement with people food anymore.  sad, sad, puppy eyes; ahh well its good for em, like reminding your kid to eat his veggies and not fill up on dessert.)  

So kids, take a lil inspiration from a few songs I love, " you gotta know when to hold em, and know when to fold em" and  " You get what you give" karma comes around, the best advice we can give you  is from the greatest man my husband ever knew, so heres to you Ellsworth Jacobs, When times are tough, "act like a duck, stay calm and cool on top and paddle like hell underneath!"  Love from your family Bud, R.I.P 1928-2011.

                                                               -Mr. FiX and Lady DyMe