Another day in Indiana

This morning we went to a class on digital cameras put on by an English gentleman by the name of Phil May. He had a great sense of humor. Got some tips I wasn't aware of. We went to several more Geeks on Tours classes, one on picassa, beyond the basics and one on internet connections on the road. The seminars have been most helpful and made this detour to attend the rally worthwhile. We signed up for the Geeks on Tours website that gives us access to all their videos online and were also given a dvd that has them as well.

Our last class was another on Alaska and was a panel discussion with 3 people who have traveled to Alaska a number of times.

We went out to dinner at Applebees where we used our $10 coupon. The food was okay. At 700 we went to the last gathering where they gave out more door prices and Nick told a number of funny stories.

Friday we got up and after having one last donut and coffee packed up and headed out for Mosquito Lake State Park, our next stop for the Labor Day weekend. We had made reservations ahead of time as a lot of the parks we looked at were full for the 3 day Holiday. This state park is in

Cortland, Ohio about an hour from Akron and Cleveland. We have a nice spot. It isn't on the water but is surrounded by trees and is very pretty.                                                                                         

More seminars and McKinney Washtub Two

We went to four seminars today. We feel like we are back in school. We went to three more of Geeks on Tours seminars, one on beginning blogging, one beyond the basics of blogging and GPS Navigation and Trip Planning.
Jim and Chris make the classes fun and easy to follow. In the GPS seminar, they gave out a trial cd for Streets and Trips. It is a great navigation tool. You can use it with your GPS or even download to your smart phone that  has GPS installed such as the Droid. I think that is our next purchase as we have Verizon now and had been thinking of getting the Droid anyway.
The last seminar of the day was on Preparing to drive in Alaska put on by Dennis Hill, who owns RV Driving School, which is the driving school we went to back in El Cajon at the start of this adventure. He is very funny and really got us excited about going to Alaska one of these days. There were a number of people there that had been there 2 or 3 times. They just love it.
The evening entertainment was a concert by McKinney Washtub Two. They are a husband and wife team. Whitt and Judy McKinney make music on everything from guitar and mandolin, to washboards, spoons, a flute, and even a kazoo!

Gypsy Journal Seminars

Tuesday morning we went and had coffee and donuts and then started our day of seminars. They had quite a lot to choose from on subjects such as fire safety and other issues related to rvs, computer related such as blogging, using picasa and google earth, , crafts, beginning kayaking and bicycling and many others. Our first class was on fire safety. Of course they start off by scaring you showing a film on how fast a motorhome can burn up. But it is a very important subject and we ended up buying some fire extinguishers to keep in different parts of the motorhome including one that goes behind the refrigerator which is one of the main places fires start. Who knew? They gave a lot of other could tips of this subject. After this we went through the vendor tents and then after having some lunch went to a few more seminars. One is managing digital photos with picasa and the other email issues on the road. They were put on by Geeks on Tour. The "geeks" are Chris and Jim Guld, who have been computer support professionals since the 80's. They decided to full time rv in 2003 and put on seminars and write tutorials and have videos on various computer subjects that are of interest to those of us on the road as will as anyone interested in learning about picasa, blogging and other internet related subjects. We found the seminars to be very helpful.
In the evening Nick had some interesting entertainment. The Hoosier Honey Beauty contest. Pretty funny.

The winner with Nick Russell

The winner was Jim Guld from Geeks on Tour that we didn't realize until the next day when we went to another of their seminars.