Wednesday, April 22, 2015

The Thunder Walrus

Well, time for a quick new news update… Unlike the Beatles… I am NOT the Walrus… But I will be doing a call in to “The Thunder Walrus” radio show Friday May 24th @ 1pm EDT (11am MDT/10am PDT)

You can follow this link to stream it live… http://www.bikerradiostation.com/ and like it on FB here… https://www.facebook.com/bikerradiostation/timeline

Old news updates… Still working through the Social Security Disability process…

But the good news… I have been approved for unemployment… A fitting thumb to the nose for the Ventura Harbor Patrol and Police Department… Since I left my part time job there after being threatened with arrest for “living in my vehicle”… It’s an RV asshole…

In my continued “No Time for Idiots” life… I’m thinking about sending them both a thank you note…

I will be producing a comedy show at the Ramona VFW Post Saturday May 16 @ 8pm and I’m still looking for someone to open with 30minutes in front of me… It’s a paid gig comics… PM me if you’re open…  

That’s it for now, faithful readers… Hope you can tune in Friday May 24th @ 1pm EDT (11am MDT/10am PDT) to “The Thunder Walrus” radio show…

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Directory Assistance

Waking from a 1hr power nap… A beautiful breeze blowing through the RV… The sky is a cloudless blue… The sun is bright but thanks to the breeze the temperature is comfortable…

I take a moment to remember where I am and what day it is… It’s a different life now… No time tables and schedules to adhere to… No rats to race in the maze of someone else’s idea of how life should be lived… Life is much better when there’s “No Vacation Necessary”…

A new life, a new phone, a new number… Annoyed last week when the old phone finally gave up its ghost… It’s a metaphor now for the life changes of the last two years…

Completely losing my old contact list… It’s been replaced by a much smaller list of only the important ones… Adding possibly the most important one yesterday… My best friend of 45yrs… A call to directory assistance leading to a surprise conversation… His home number unlisted… The only listing, his mom’s… The delightful conversation that followed leaving me with a warm spot in my heart and Paul’s home number…

Yes, the call that followed to Paul was almost as nice…    

The boys and I are still camped at the Ramona, CA VFW… I’m working there every morning in exchange for the electric hook up… The sense of community is strong here… It’s a “Where everyone knows your name” kind of place…  

The boys and I have been welcomed with open arms… The boys working the parking lot everyday greeting the regulars…

With the RV batteries on the charger… I had walked to and from the bank and supermarket yesterday… Today we drove to the laundromat… See the associated Facebook post… 


At tonight’s VFW post meeting we’ll be picking a date for a comedy show here next month… Tomorrow I’ll start working on material for the show and looking for an MC and Feature act…


If timed right with our next travels… I’m hoping to parley it into a comedy tour of VFW posts… Thanks for reading… 

Saturday, April 4, 2015

The Adventure Continues...

Well… It’s been a while since we’ve talked my friends and faithful readers… Don’t think it’s due to life being boring… Quite the contrary…

As I wrote earlier our trip to Vegas was put on hold and to be honest I’m not sure if we’ll ever make that one…

As also written earlier during my annual physical this past January… The EKG revealed that I had an undiagnosed heart attack sometime last year… Doubting the diagnosis and doing some additional research I have come to the conclusion that it actually could have been possible and is very common…

That being said… On the advice of my doctor I have applied for and am now waiting for SS Disability… The years of death sentence work schedules while causing the damage may in the end pay off well…

Enough said about that… I have lost 15lbs since arriving in California and I’m working on losing another 5… Lots of walking… A change in diet and a fairly stress free life has definitely been agreeing with me…  

Fairly stress free… As my faithful readers know there were some issues between the “Keystone Patrol” and myself over my boys… Resolved and at least temporarily put aside…

Recently thinking that cancelling the trip to Vegas was one of my better decisions and that our life at the beach couldn’t be better… There were issues and I find it serendipitous that when it’s time for a change, life sends the message… Sometimes it’s whispered and we need to shut up long enough to hear it… Other times it screams it… This one was fairly loud…

As issues with the “Keystone Patrol” resurfaced and the recent inclusion in the equation of the Ventura PD to rid the beach of RVers… The Universe reminded me this adventure the boys and I are on isn’t meant to be lived in a comfort zone of familiarity or big cities…

So spending this past week prepping for another trip… I turned in my marina security keys… Thankful for the job while it lasted… Ironically I was working for a retired Submarine Commanding Officer… We said goodbye to some friends at the beach yesterday and headed inland and south to Ramona, CA… Northern San Diego County… 2000ft higher in elevation than sea level at the beach… Significantly less humidity… A definite plus… We are in the foothills of the Laguna Mountains in southern California… A beautiful small town… A combination of paved and gravel roads… Farming community…

We’re camped at least temporarily at the VFW… An old Navy buddy living here and a member of the local post even setting us up with an electric hook up…

Next week I will look for some part time work and we will most likely be headed to the local county park to camp there… Camping for free in exchange for 20hrs/wk of volunteer work doing grounds keeping at the park… What a wonderful life for my boys…

The traffic was insane on the drive here… Due to the unfortunate need to get south of LA on the Friday of a holiday weekend… The final leg of the trip through winding, mountain roads and arriving at the VFW yesterday evening for a fish fry dinner and some beers reminding me how much I love small town America…

The bright lights of the casinos and comedy show rooms are nice… But I certainly don’t want to live there… The down home feel of a fish fry dinner, some beers and the locals singing Karaoke… Really made for a wonderful night… 

A roast beef dinner and maybe more Karaoke at the post is on tap for tonight… No, I won’t sing…

Our adventure finally clearly defined… It’s all about this now… The travels… The people we meet along the way… The lives we touch and those that touch ours… We’ve already met so many who have fallen in love with the boys… We’ll miss them as much as they miss us… If comedy opportunities present themselves… Well, they’ll be considered and performing in the small towns of America has always been more fun than the “A” rooms of the big cities anyway… The people there always happy and grateful for the entertainment opportunity… They come out to have fun with no airs of pretention…

Yes, Pultneyville… I miss you…


Eventually… We will head north again… Taking our time… I would like to spend at least a few days camped on the ocean at San Onofre State Beach and we’ll head up the coast… I think we’ll drive through LA at night next time… But with no clock or calendar to adhere to… Life is good when… There’s “No Vacation Necessary”…