On a tip from another RVer, I purchased an Orion Cooker from Home Depot. This cooker is very cool. I smoked 4 racks of ribs in 1 hour and 10 minutes! I will rate my first use as “good”. Looking forward to an “excellent” use soon. Want to do a pork shoulder next.
All hitched up and ready to go. 3 degrees F! I am leaving Marengo, IL and heading to Mission, TX. Along the way, I have stops planned for Kansas City, MO for the first overnight, then push to Hutchinson, KS on Friday to visit and overnight at the KS State Fairgrounds. There I plan to…
December 12, 2013 We arrived to Addison, IL about dinner time. We’re staying with friends Ed and Alice F at their home in Addison for our first 2 nights. We stopped at Uncle Harry’s Ice Cream to say hi to owner Leif Nelson and to pickup 2 quarts of ice cream I called ahead and…
Updating our blog with activity from 2005 on an older, now-defunct blog 29-April-2005 Our first camping trip with the Heartland Landmark trailer. We’re at the KOA in Wisconsin Dells, WI. We’re camping free in exchange for helping them with cleaning up the campground prior to the start of the season. We did about 90 minutes…
The Comers and I met our friend, Scott Tuttle at the South Side Soda Shop Diner for lunch while we were in Goshen, Indiana for the Midwest RV Super Show and Rally. I had a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich. Very good! Scott had the same and a Philly Chili. The Chili is served in a…
We’re in Pigeon Forge, TN for 3 nights for the Smoky Mountain RV Show. We’re staying at Creekside RV Park just south of the Parkway off Wears Valley Road.  The location is great for getting to the show.  We’ll be at the “LeConte Center at Pigeon Forge”.  We’ll be able to get there without having to…
