Karin Bartsch's Journals

What  What are you doing in Livingston? - you might ask. The days fly by here too, we are always busy.

We went through our stuff - Dieter in the storage area in our RV's basement - and we sorted out things we can or have to give away to lighten our load or simply because we don't use them anymore. The CARE Center holds annual fleamarkets to collect money and has also a neat little gift shop.

We walk almost daily, but we are not able to walk every road on the daily basis because the park is too big. Escapees aquired another 25 acres adjacent to the property to relocate the campsites for RV's. All the places where we are standing right now will be offered to members as deeded lots. When we walk through "Rainbow's End" we have enough to see and observe, it feels like going through a huge village. Many RV's parked permanently have a roof installed over their units, sometimes connected to a shed to keep the sun out. It is hot and humid here in summer. We pay $ 14.50 per day plus metered electricity, which is expensive, compared to paying nothing or only electric in other membership parks. All the Escapees Parks have different price tags according to their location. This is the "National Headquarters" Park and CARE Center and the price is the highest.  The Park in Willis belongs to "Resorts of Distinction" where we do not pay anything, so we go back there for another 2 weeks.

We always said when we hang up our traveling keys we will go to Livingston. We really don't have to do that as long as we are healthy. Sure, it was hot in Arizona in the summer, but we experience heat combined with high humidity in this area - and in Florida -  and have to conclude that the dry heat is more bearable. We can always hire a friend to drive us here if we need the CARE Center.

Two days ago I started scanning pictures from the time before I had a digital camera. Windows Vista Photo Gallery imports those and transforms them right away into jpg. images. I have packs and packs of those physical pictures, it will take quite some time until I am finished and have some albums established.

Yesterday my first digital camera I bought in 2003 died. But thanks to Super-Walmart being only 9 miles away I had it replaced quickly. The old Kodak Easy Share was fairly plump, had only 2x Zoom and 3 Megapixels. But the pictures were always good. The new Kodak Easy Share  C 182 is much smaller, has a lot more features, has 3 x zoom and a big 3" (7.6 cm) screen - and 12 Megapixels - wow - how good will those be??

Otherwise - all is fine. Till later.........