Slight change of plans for us

We have accepted positions at http://desertgardensrvoasis.com/index.html for the winter as Activities Director (Pam) and Jack-of-all-trades (Rick). We will leave the Pahrump/Las Vegas area on Wednesday, Nov 19 and arriving at Florence, AZ on the 20th or 21st and are scheduled to stay until April.

We haven't made any changes to our reservations yet, especially those for December and January as we've had changes before that we needed to have a site right away and want to make sure that since those are the busiest months, we have a place to go if we need it!!!

We'll be working 12 hours each for our site, then Pam will work another 28 for a total of 40 hrs per week, and we'll get that flat screen tv sooner or later!!! This just helps out with the shortage that we have for the winter's purchases since we didn't get the seaon-end bonus as was origianlly promised from the place in Alaska.

That's all for now, more to follow as we get to our new position/place and see what it's like!!!

We're Working on our new Web Site!!

One of our sons has created an awesome new utility for creating your own websites and we are in the process of updating ours to the new format!! Go take a look at it, it is still in progress but the Itinerary page is up-to-date FINALLY!!! We're having problems making reservations, but are slowly getting some of them made.

Hope your Presidential candidate won, ours did!!!

Well, we're not going to Texax afterall!

We got an email from the resort we were going to in Port Aranas Tx and they hired another couple!!! We thought we had a solid commitment, that's what we get for thinking I guess!!!

Sooooo, we'll take a look at everyone's travel plans and see where we can meet up with all our friends and family over the winter. We're not going to commit to anywhere until just the right job comes along or next summer, whichever comes first!

So look for us at the favorite hangouts!

Dang only the 3rd day of a new month and....

Here I am posting again... I guess when things change at a rapid pace, we must inform more often. At any rate if you haven't recieved email to the effect from Pammy, you can hear it here... We have accepted a position in Port Aransas, Texas. Right out on the island at the Gulf Waters RV Resort. The web site shows a pretty nice place, some are owned by RV'ers and others are for rent. Pam will be working in the office doing the normal stuff taking reservations, checking people in and such and I will be escorting to the site and doing light gardening and security. This is another 4 days on 4 days off situation and that works for us. It's even for pay! The Resort is realitively new and growing (another 40 sites are going in) with 125 sites so far. At any rate we are supposed to be there for a year and then we will see from there. Should be interesting.
So, we will be leaving Seattle on the 10th unless the doctor changes our plans. Should be in Pahrump around the 16th and will stay there for as long as we can and still make it to Texas by the 4th or 5th of Nov. For those of you who are going to meet us in Pahrump, see then.

Work Kamping has it's ups and downs

Hi Everyone;

As you can see this is the 3rd post in one month, I must have alot to say this month.

We are in Tok and getting ready to head into Canada, so no cell service and internet may be spotty for the next couple of weeks. This post is more about what just happened to us than anything else however.

We just got disappointed by our summer employer to the tune of over $3000. He came up with some bogus excuse not to pay us our "agreed" upon end of season bonus. We could not believe what he did! We bail him out at the beginning of the summer and do better than he expected all summer long and then he won't pay us our bonus. Lots of words have flown over the past several hours and several emails have gone out. I don't know what to say, as workampers you really have no recourse in a situation like this. This is the "down" of being a workamper. That an employer would cheat people out of their money is unbelieveable to me. Maybe I'm too trusting or just stupid. At any rate, we worked hard for him and got nothing for it. Let this be a lesson to everyone, GET IT IN WRITTING!! People can not be trusted anymore.

The more I know people the more I like my cats!

We will barely make it back to the lower 48 and won't be able to do any of the planned side trips now, so we will probably be back in Seattle sooner than planned. See you all soon...

Twice in one Month, Amazing

Hi All;
Once again, thinks have changed. Like I said we were being talked to by one of the WH resorts and have decided to join their "volunteer" staff for the winter. We will still be leaving tomorrow and heading down to the lower 48. We don't have to be there until the 1st of Nov. so we will probably not "rush" through any of the stops.
We will be staying in St. David for the winter and hope that we get to see everyone while we are there. I would rather be moving around and seeing folks but this is not a bad deal since some of the kids are in Tucson and we both like the St. David area. So, if we don't see you along the way down, let's hope we get to see you while you are staying at St. David.
As of tomorrow we will have spotty internet service and no cell service so if you don't get a response right away, don't fret, we are having a blast in Canada. See you all soon.

So Sept. brings changes

Hi All;

As usual, nothing in our lives is written in stone, thank goodness. We have changed the date that we will leave Healy, Ak to the 22nd of Sept. That allows for all the housekeeping staff to get out of here ahead of us. We will be going from here to Fairbanks and Tok then over to Watson Lake, YT. Then it's down a different route than the one we took up, we are going to take the Cassiair Highway down to Prince Geoge. We wanted to go on the ferry and take the inside passage down but the cost was WAY TOO MUCH. It would have cost over $5k to do that, we can travel down the highway for half that. It's really too bad too as we thought that would be a great treat to finish off this wonderful trip. Oh well, life goes on and maybe another time.

At any rate we are going to be in Seattle for about 2 weeks and then it's heading south for warmer climates and less rain. As of this entry we are going to stop in Portland and visit with the kids for a few days, then we are going to stop over in Coos Bay and visit with that set of kids. I also need to make a run to Kerbyville and get some burl pieces to work on. Then it's off the Pahrump, Nv for a few weeks. We have been contacted by a Western Horizons park that is looking for assitant activities people and if they decide to have us do that we may have to cut some of our stays a little shorter since we may need to be at the park sooner than we had thought. For now no plans to "hightail it" to anywhere.

So now the news from the Denali Park Hotel. We still don't know if they are going to ask us back but I have pretty much decided that I don't want to come back to Healy. (Notice that I say "I" for the first time in this entry, Pam is still thinking about it and we all know what that means) We would both like to come back to Alaska and if we do I think that we would probably try to get a position somewhere down on the Kenai Penn. We really liked it there when we visited and would like to spend some more time there. At any rate, we shall see. It's been alot of fun here and we have enjoyed the things that we have gotten to do. I will share a picture or two with you but most of you have our "Flickr" address and there are more there

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The first image is a "clear" view of Denali (Mt. McKinley), that day I got several shots of the mountain including from the "south", this is a shot from the North side of the moutain. The second shot is from our Glacier cruise of one of the glaciers (Surprise Glacier) calving. It was very cool (no pun intended) and the sound was very loud. Hope you enjoy. For those folks who are missing some of the pictures that we are taking, I'm going to put a package together with them and send it out to everyone. If you get to see us in person, I have some fantastic shots to show and would be happy to share them.

So this is my entry for now. I will try to get another one up before we leave so that we can keep everyone up to speed with our continuing saga and journey through life. Let us know what you think and hope to see everyone soon....