Denise and Rick Cunningham

Like many boomers we're planning the "next chapter". We live a fairly chaotic life in Georgetown in Washington DC. I'm a former fashion executive and journalist. Rick's an engineer and computer scientist. We're about ready for a little change of pace. Travel... perhaps moving to warmer climes ...and definitely savoring more moments. We never set out to buy an RV...matter of fact, we had never even been in one and I definitely don't camp. But, now, with more time and a growing aversion to the insults of air travel, we bought a 40' motor coach. Our grandson, Ian, named it Gigantor. We call it Tor for short.

We're seeing things you just can't from the air and finding that we've so much to discover on this continent. In the past two years, we've taken three marvelous six-week trips. This time, we're "chasing the sun for as long as it fun". We left on October 5, 2009. We'll see how long we last!

We're searching for great places to stay, sights worth seeing, golf courses worth playing, great restaurants, shopping, farmer's markets. We're on the road in search of the high road.


Monday, March 8, 2010

Tweaking Tor

March 6 ~ 8

Rainy weekend....good time to catch up on wash, ironing, cleaning including cleaning the carpet which was getting pretty gross looking.  We also have a long list of smaller projects that we think will make Tor even more conducive to comfortable living.

The closets have always made us nuts.  Instead of a rod, they have a rail with individual hanger spaces...187 of them to be exact.  And if you fill everyone of those 187 spaces, which of course I am, you end up with a tangle of things that cannot be hung properly since you cannot push the other clothes out of the way and straighten what you're  hanging....leads to lots of wrinkles. 

We thought this configuration had something to do with being in a RV or motion or something.  Well, we've been in some very fancy coaches recently (the last one $2.2 million!....gorgeous!) and they all had regular closet rods.  So thanks to  this rainy weekend, now we have them too....makes all the difference in the world....wish we had done this ages ago.






The other "life changing" project was actually done a couple of weeks ago...pre-Olympics.  I am an Olympic freak, have been my whole life except I will admit now it's not quite the same with every athlete drawing down hefty paychecks ....I digress.  Inexplicably the Olympics, even though they were being held in the Pacific Time Zone, were being delayed until 8p.m PST.....11 p.m. Eastern time.  Old news!  And NBC in an effort to recoup their enormous investment in the Games seemed to have about 50% of the broadcast devoted to commercials.  Even though I reaped many benefits by spending years creating ads , I can't stand it anymore. 

We have tried to have satellite TV installed in Tor and other variations on the theme....but nothing had the DVR component.  Rick solved that with the purchase of a $65 gadget that records on the laptop and works just like a TIVO.  Olympics were watched on our schedule and took half the time as we zipped through all the ads!  Downside, Rick still hasn't figured out how to hide all the wires....big prob...need a solution.

Can't believe this month that we were afraid was going to be way to long too stay in one place has passed so quickly.  Just 10 days left....a few more things we'd like to see/do here and I need to find someplace to get my hair cut again and we need to figure where we go from here!
Posted by Denise and Rick Cunningham on Monday, March 08, 2010

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