Tana on the road, Gypsy Journal Rally, Day 4, Most Photographed Fungus

Another great day of seminars.  I have said that now for days, cause it is true.

Man and I both will leave here with lots of reading material, some new toys and CDS to peruse and much to contemplate.  I will be downloading some new free programs to play with and Reflections From the Fence now has it's own domain.  If you don't see the domain name today, they say it will be totally visable in a few more days.  Now I have bunches more stuff to learn.

The Geocities web pages still need to be moved somewhere, and the new domain will provide me space, but so far, I am not thrilled with the web page builder by Google.  It must be something I am doing wrong, I mean, I love gmail, I love Blogger, love GoogleEarth, GoogleBooks, Picassa storage, the Google search, my use and affection for Google are huge.  But, this web page builder thingy??  Not so sure.

This has to be the most photographed fungus ever, Chris of Geeks on Tour took photos of it, Terri, Nick the Gypsy's best half did as well.  It is rather large, very colorful, and easily spotted from the road.  It is growing right by our campsite here in Celina, Mercer County, Ohio.  Have to wonder how many digital cameras carry this image away from Mercer County this week.

Packing up soon, heading Tana northward to the stickbuilt.

Would appreciate some good thoughts for Granddaughter L today.  She is having a bit of plastic surgery to smooth out some of her scars from the heart surgery a few years ago.  She is very very upset that she will miss playground time at school for the next couple of weeks.  We think in a few years she will be glad she had the correction made, but, she does NOT feel that way this week.

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Tana on the road, Gypsy Journal Rally, Day 3

FINALLY, the sun came out.  It has been pretty gloomy round here, no rain, but that wind just kept a comin'.  Can we spell cold ??  Yes, we can, BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

Slide show presentations are so fabulous!  I know I just LOVE teaching that way.  Start with projectors and slide show presentations, add in some Internet connections, and we have powerful tools to teach with.  Powerpoint presentations abound here at the Gypsy Journal Rally!  Good stuff!

We have been learning more about air cards, routers, amplifiers for cell/air cards; YouTube; and Google Earth, which we have not used in a number of years, WOWIE, what improvements on that site!  Man attended some sessions on extended warranties and tires and such.  We are learning tricks and hints that we did not know.  Yes, we can always learn something new!  How great is that?

Nick the Gypsy has this scheduling thing down.  Sessions long enough, but not TOO long and lunch breaks sufficiently long so that you can eat, do some necessary room visits, check email, blog a little, visit the vendors and then get to the next session.

Dinner was a pizza party, good eats, nice chatting with others at our table, including the Geeks On Tour.  After dinner we were entertained by One More Time, Melissa and Larry Beahm, who full time, traveling and entertaining.  Another very pleasant ending to a long, seminar packed day.

Tomorrow is the last day, one more day packed with seminars.  Where is my schedule??

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Tana on the road, Gypsy Journal Rally, Day 2

At this Rally they schedule a LOT of seminars at the same time.  This is great and bad.  Great choices, and you are just about guaranteed there is always a class you want to attend.  Bad, because sometimes you want to attend 2 in the same time frame, and you all know how well I make choices, if not, re-read my first blog and contemplate the name of this blog.

Man and I pretty much have chosen different seminars for each time frame, so, he runs one way, I another.  We have visited some of the vendors, $pent $ome $$$ and have enjoyed each of the presentations.  I am doing many of the classes presented by Geeks on Tour (see my Dancing Fern, thanks to them) and Nick's (the Gypsy) presentations as well.  This evening we also thoroughly enjoyed a slide show by Art Hesselbart of the RV Museum in Elkhart, Indiana.  He had the most fabulous photos of old RV's.  Art has a dry sense of humor and colorful stories. What a great way to end the day.

Last night Man and Moi won a door prize to a local restaurant.  Italian.  I had Italian last night, tonight, and tomorrow is the pizza party here a the Rally.  I might have to change my name to Maria??  Or Rosalina??  Our door prize gifts were to Bella's Italian Grill, Celina, Ohio, overlooking Grand Lake.  Our dinner was superb, including the peanut butter oreo cookie pie for desert.  Reasonably priced, delicious.  Thank you to Bella's and the Gypsy Journal Rally, MMMMMMM good!

Man, is already indicating he wants to do this Rally again.  I am looking at the travel brochures and such for Grand Lake and what the area has to offer and I KNOW I want to come back.  The lake was constructed as a feeder lake for the Miami-Erie Canal back in the 1837-45 time frame.  It was the largest man-made lake in the world.  It was hand dug!  Yes, you read that correctly, HAND DUG!  Being that this area is less than 150 miles from our stick built, I believe we need to seriously consider revisiting this area during the summer.

We are enjoying this Rally.  So different than last weeks, but, wonderful too.   Now, I have to check the list of seminars for day 3, hmmmmmmmmm, the choices are difficult.

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