Cleanworks
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Puppies in Paradise Part 3! Florida 2017
- Thread starter Mark Saiger
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hogjowl
Idiot™
Awkward
Lee Stockwell
FOJL
I never noticed Mark dyed his hair...
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Mark a way I have doubled my vacations that might be of interest. I often drive to my vacation area---like Arizona, Texas, etc. Vacation a bit --find some great mountain bike trails hopefully---and hang out a bit. Then I park my mini motorhome (another story) and fly home. I work a couple of weeks or a month and then fly back, get my rig and vacation on the way home again. If you take one week with weekends that is 11 days. Then you take another week with two weekends that is another 11 days. So for 2 weeks off work I get 22 days of vacation.
How to fly back and forth cheaply. Everything I buy in my business and life I pay with my airline points cards. Last minute flights with United points are 12,500 miles and $80 as long as there are seats left on the plane. I generate 200-400k points a year.
I cannot plan further away than the next 20 minutes so my flights are usually last minute bookings. If you book the flight 2 weeks or more ahead of time the flights are 12,500 points and $5.
Try to plan your turn around area somewhere that has good connections to the local airport.
How to fly back and forth cheaply. Everything I buy in my business and life I pay with my airline points cards. Last minute flights with United points are 12,500 miles and $80 as long as there are seats left on the plane. I generate 200-400k points a year.
I cannot plan further away than the next 20 minutes so my flights are usually last minute bookings. If you book the flight 2 weeks or more ahead of time the flights are 12,500 points and $5.
Try to plan your turn around area somewhere that has good connections to the local airport.
I would think that could be a lot of fun to work with----
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
I wondered where my stolen bike ended up...
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Met up with Joey Harper this afternoon.
Good conversation and war stories.
Good times.
Honey Moon Beach... Just awesome!
Good conversation and war stories.
Good times.
Honey Moon Beach... Just awesome!
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Great times in the middle and southern parts of Florida.
ME and the wife (and puppies) not looking forward to going home to the cold!
We just arrived in Destin for a few days.
I need to be home by the evening of Thurs Feb 9th for huge job.
Start preparing the Butler for the road trip and Mikey's Fest show and trip just few short days after home.
We will be extending our trip longer next year!
ME and the wife (and puppies) not looking forward to going home to the cold!
We just arrived in Destin for a few days.
I need to be home by the evening of Thurs Feb 9th for huge job.
Start preparing the Butler for the road trip and Mikey's Fest show and trip just few short days after home.
We will be extending our trip longer next year!
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Trip just extended.... 
And planning a visit to Prattville next week on way through too
Have to buy some lunch
And planning a visit to Prattville next week on way through too
Have to buy some lunch
Cleanworks
Moderator
What's to go home to? More snow and ice and trying not to let your BUTTler freeze.
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Chilling by the fire at our campground tonight. was another great perfect day!
Puppies in paradise!
was another great perfect day! Puppies in paradise!
Lee Stockwell
FOJL
A dog's life.
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Entertaining tonight....
Was still good trip and good day until the storm.
So far RV Mobile Office hasn't blown into the pool...
Up early in the morning to winterize and pack up the RV...
Off to see the wizard in Prattville to buy some lunch for a poor pig farmer with just about as many tools as me now @hogjowl
Was still good trip and good day until the storm.
So far RV Mobile Office hasn't blown into the pool...
Up early in the morning to winterize and pack up the RV...
Off to see the wizard in Prattville to buy some lunch for a poor pig farmer with just about as many tools as me now
@hogjowl
hogjowl
Idiot™
Me and the Misses are waiting
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Well....reality is setting in again 
Got up early this morning in Destin, Florida....and had to winterize the RV (Mobile office)
We are heading home....and are in Clarksville TN tonight...and dang....it's cold!
36 above zero....
the boys were out cleaning in -14 degrees below zero this morning.....
Boy did we get "cold weather soft" being gone for the month...
Had a great lunch today with Marty and his better half
Drove through some nasty storms later afternoon around Nashville...
Going as far as Madison Wi tomorrow night....home in Grand Rapids, MN by Friday.
It should be warmer by than (40 above zero we are hearing)
Big week of work and a lot to get done in a short time, as I take off again in a week for the drive back to St. Petersburg Florida for Mikey's Fest
Got up early this morning in Destin, Florida....and had to winterize the RV (Mobile office)
We are heading home....and are in Clarksville TN tonight...and dang....it's cold!
36 above zero....
the boys were out cleaning in -14 degrees below zero this morning.....
Boy did we get "cold weather soft" being gone for the month...
Had a great lunch today with Marty and his better half
Drove through some nasty storms later afternoon around Nashville...
Going as far as Madison Wi tomorrow night....home in Grand Rapids, MN by Friday.
It should be warmer by than (40 above zero we are hearing)
Big week of work and a lot to get done in a short time, as I take off again in a week for the drive back to St. Petersburg Florida for Mikey's Fest
Mikey P
Administrator
Good lord Mark
Thanks a million compadre!
Thanks a million compadre!
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Well our trip has been great.!
Today almost major reality check...lots of luck was with us just 2 hours south of Madison Wisconsin on the intestate.
A car about 2 rows in front of us and in front of a semi went rolling about 4 or 5 times sideways... Over and over... on the road and shot in front of us... Into a Barb wire fence in the ditch....
Within a minute of me getting control of the RV, stopped next to the semi... In the middle of oncoming 70 mph traffic... And having blasted through a debris field of car parts....
My former racing skills must have kicked in. I can only remember seeing so many things out of my peripheral vision... And seeing oncoming traffic and flooring it!
Quarter mile later just remember people in the ditch to the rescue and tons of traffic bearing down on us.
We had to keep going to avoid a pile up... Haven't heard tragedies...
Wife and I wear pretty quiet for next 15 minutes! Talked about it over dinner couple hours later... She still can't believe my reaction.... I can't either!
6.5 hours left to be home and grandbabies waiting to do overnight with us...
I plan on finishing this trip in positive way!
Today almost major reality check...lots of luck was with us just 2 hours south of Madison Wisconsin on the intestate.
A car about 2 rows in front of us and in front of a semi went rolling about 4 or 5 times sideways... Over and over... on the road and shot in front of us... Into a Barb wire fence in the ditch....
Within a minute of me getting control of the RV, stopped next to the semi... In the middle of oncoming 70 mph traffic... And having blasted through a debris field of car parts....
My former racing skills must have kicked in. I can only remember seeing so many things out of my peripheral vision... And seeing oncoming traffic and flooring it!
Quarter mile later just remember people in the ditch to the rescue and tons of traffic bearing down on us.
We had to keep going to avoid a pile up... Haven't heard tragedies...
Wife and I wear pretty quiet for next 15 minutes! Talked about it over dinner couple hours later... She still can't believe my reaction.... I can't either!
6.5 hours left to be home and grandbabies waiting to do overnight with us...
I plan on finishing this trip in positive way!
Cleanworks
Moderator
What?, no video? I am surprised you don't have a dash cam. Glad you and the Missus and the dogs all made it through. Lot of scary drivers out there. I was in Saskatchewan one time and on a straight piece of highway, a oncoming minivan shoots right off the highway, into the center median, then shoots off the other way, directly in front of a lot of traffic and runs off the road on the shoulder. I think the driver must have fallen asleep. Luckily, it was all flat land and he didn't hit anyone or get hit.
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
I have been looking for information on the accident. Happened out of Janesville on I 90....but we were talking about it again today....
Just was wild...and we are still counting our blessing!
hogjowl
Idiot™
I'm glad you survived cuz I want more of that experimental Taco Chavez deodorizer
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Well....the trip is over....
The Eagles have landed safely at home tonight.
RV and mobile office unloaded....
Lot's to do in next few days here, and then turn around and head back down there
But....what an awesome experience, and just a time for my and Shari (and the Puppies) to reflect on a number of things in our lives....count blessings.....try to pass on blessings to people we were meeting....
There is snow on the ground (but not as long for us now) and the temps were up to around 37 to 40 degrees above zero today (was -14 below yesterday morning when the guys were out working!)
Now....I am really looking forward to Mikey's Fest!
I have a number of new projects going on with Harvard I am anxious to keep pushing and testing....just loving it!
Thanks everyone for following (and putting up with so much information from us)
I hope I get to see many of you in Paradise in St. Petersburg Florida....and many blessings to you and your families for an awesome and continued 2017!
The Eagles have landed safely at home tonight.
RV and mobile office unloaded....
Lot's to do in next few days here, and then turn around and head back down there
But....what an awesome experience, and just a time for my and Shari (and the Puppies) to reflect on a number of things in our lives....count blessings.....try to pass on blessings to people we were meeting....
There is snow on the ground (but not as long for us now) and the temps were up to around 37 to 40 degrees above zero today (was -14 below yesterday morning when the guys were out working!)
Now....I am really looking forward to Mikey's Fest!
I have a number of new projects going on with Harvard I am anxious to keep pushing and testing....just loving it!
Thanks everyone for following (and putting up with so much information from us)
I hope I get to see many of you in Paradise in St. Petersburg Florida....and many blessings to you and your families for an awesome and continued 2017!
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
I got to use it right away tonight at home too on a situation....and Mmmm....I am liking it so far too
hogjowl
Idiot™
Yeah, me too.
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Trip was One month, 4100 miles... Awesome work Vaca... Get it done trip!
bob vawter
Grassy Knoller
you jus never know when the fickle finger of fate is gonna reach out an touch ya........
a big piece of ice blew off the roof of an 18 wheeler and went through a windshield near here .....
i think they lived but were busted up a little........
glad yous kids made it through ok
a big piece of ice blew off the roof of an 18 wheeler and went through a windshield near here .....
i think they lived but were busted up a little........
glad yous kids made it through ok
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
Just got word yesterday too that a person who was from Grand Rapids, MN originally, and moved to Minneapolis area.....he was a youth pastor up here I believe, and moved to the twin cities and started up window washing.....
He was killed by a big pile of snow and ice that fell from over 2 stories above him while washing windows....and crushed him....
They couldn't lift the ice chunks off of him....they had to use sledge hammers to bust up the ice to get him out....he died on the way to the hospital
50 years of age
Just never know like you say, so I am not waiting around long enough for death to catch me right now!
Gonna keep moving!
Cleanworks
Moderator
Gonna start calling you ol' grey beard.
