Smitanic 2 - Nomadness

Kevin and Theresa were excited to see Glorianna(kevin’s mom) & Torreen(kevin’s sister) at the Harbor Chase Assisted Living Facility.  Familiar faces greeted them at the reception as they passed thru the well decorated hall ways and made their way to the Glo-Torr apartment. Reunion kisses and hugs were exchanged and all was well. Glorianna was just recently released from 2 hospital stays for pneumonia, she was week a but recovering. Yeah! Torreen was helping her mom keep the O2 supplied between bingo and other organized activities. It was great to see those 2 faces! The daily routine quickly formulated into a flexible schedule for Kevin & Theresa which went something like: Up by 8ish, Coffee & triage email, Facebook & news 2 hours of Pickleball 40 min for Theresa’s exercise commitment (50 burpees and Beachbody On Demand workout) in the parks very dated exercise room Lunch in the RV or at one of the favorite dig Americana Visit with Glorianna ...

Heading south to central Florida was planned with 3 stops. The first port of call for the Smitanic was only 40 miles from home port….just in case some critical item needed to be retrieved. The Raleigh Oaks RV Resort was conveniently located right off I95 and had full hook-up sites, a nice workout room as well as a pool and Pickleball! Unfortunately, only the weight room was used by Theresa for her 40 min workout routine. Dinner was made in the RV with leftovers exported from the Tasman Frig. Theresa loaded the dishwasher as Kevin checked out the satellite and other systems. The manuals were referenced for several of the systems, but the Dishwasher operator instructions were MIA. After 2 hours of frustration and lots google searching, the proper online manual was finally found revealing the proper sequence to manually start the dishwasher was successful! The research also revealed that there was suppose to be a remote for the dishwasher as well. Another item added to the ev...

It would be a few more days before the Smitanic was released from some last minute service items. So it's crew was back home empty handed to organize for the final load and departure. Kevin struggled with how to secure his 3 remote control airplanes and found a idea for a rack that could fit in the back of the tow vehicle. After carefully measuring the Jeep's constrains, Theresa recalled a bit of geometry to figure out the length of the hypotenuse on a right triangle.  She then drew the diagram inserted here. With that info and a solid design, an estimate of the PVC materials was made for the trip to Lowes. A handy PVC pipe cutting tool was recommended by the Lowes handyman, which made construction eazy-peasy. Within 20 minutes, one side of the rack was assembled. The parts were duplicated for the opposing sides. Then a quick test to see how it fits in the Jeep... not bad, but a few minor adjustments would make it just right! After some more quick cuts the rack w...