by Scott Darlington | Mar 5, 2020 | RVing
In Part 1 of this series, we described the preparations for departure and the decisions we had to make regarding COVID-19, such whether to go at all. SPOILER ALERT: Yes, we did decide to go. 🙂 In this part, we complete the first leg of our journey to Florida. Trip...
by Scott Darlington | Mar 5, 2020 | RVing
Since we bought our RV, we’ve been going to Florida in the spring and fall. Way back in June of 2019, we found out that Gladys Knight would be playing at the Carolina Opry in Myrtle Beach on March 8th, 2020. Now, it’s still fairly cold in Myrtle Beach at...
by Scott Darlington | Nov 12, 2019 | RVing, Trailer
As we mentioned in our previous posting [not yet published–coming soon!], we have a problem with the trailer not tracking properly behind us. Instead, the rear end is several inches closer to the center-line of the road than the truck is. We clearly have a...
by Scott Darlington | Aug 5, 2018 | Trailer
In part 1 of this series, we looked at travel trailers. In part 2 below, we look at fifth wheel trailers. What About Fifth Wheels? While we’d been looking at the trailers at Primo Trailer Sales we’d seen these really funny-looking trailers–fifth...
by Scott Darlington | Aug 3, 2018 | RVing, Trailer
For reasons explained in this post, we decided to buy an RV. Having decided to get one, here’s how we ended up choosing the RV of our dreams. Part 1 is below and you can look at Part 2 and Part 3. We Started Small We were brand new to the world of RVs having...
by Scott Darlington | Aug 2, 2018 | RVing
I retired at the end of 2015 and spent the first seven months just enjoying myself. My wife, Joanne, didn’t retire until the beginning of August, 2016. A year and a half later, we hadn’t really changed our lives very much. I had my things to do, such as...
by Scott Darlington | Feb 8, 2017 | Music
After the League of Rock Final Showcase, described in Shades of Grey Lives On!, the band took a month off and then got together in January to discuss what was next for the band. Unfortunately, Karen wanted to leave the band to sing in a metal band, hence our lineup...
by Scott Darlington | Dec 16, 2016 | Music
I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve Joined a Band, that, yup, I’d joined a band. Well, we’ve continued through to the finish of the League of Rock session and decided to keep going as a band–Shades of Grey lives on! We had an official weekly...
by Scott Darlington | Nov 2, 2016 | Music
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you know that I took lessons for bass guitar and piano in the first half of 2016. I used to play bass but hadn’t really played since about thirty years ago, when I was in the University of Waterloo Computer...
by Scott Darlington | Sep 30, 2016 | Vacation
We had a great vacation in Old Orchard Beach, Maine and, as usual, it came to an end much too soon. We were able to stay a couple of extra days so that our vacation overlapped with that of my sister and the older of my two younger brothers by two days. We had a great...
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