Dam Ford Truck and RV Service and Thor

I packed up the Thor last night bringing in the slide and detaching the sewage line.  This morning I just had to disconnect Starlink , the water line and electricity.

I was up at 6 am so I could leave at 730 am for the 830 apt.  I had time to walk Madigan and then I was in the driver’s seat.  Departures and passages and me are associated with a lot of intrepidation.  It’s goes back to sailing and leaving anchorage.  The traffic is daunting with my great land barge. I’m much more comfortable on my motorcycle.

Thanks to truck driver neighbour Shane I remembered “big ass”.  When turning you have to remember a bus or motorhome’s rear end.

I made it!  I parked in the driveway.  I couldn’t imagine how I’d thread my way through all the new trucks and cars.

Fortunately the service manager was a mensch. “No problem.” He said and took the keys.  He then drove my motorhome like a pro.  

Now it’s in the bay being care for. The full Ford Maintenance Spa Care.  

I’ve gone next door and had a terrific sausage and egg breakfast at the Corner Cafe.  Madigan is discombobulated with all the changes. You can see he’s disoriented by his house and home being moved.

Now we’re in the Dam Ford and Lincoln Customer lounge. I just looked at the Maverick.  That’s the plan. Trade my F350 and Mini in for that and sell the Camper eventually. I can pull the Maverick hybrid behind the Thor. This year I’ll carry the Vespa but next year I may let go of the camper.  I’m planning on using it this fall hunting but if I had a truck I could leave my Thor in a town use the truck to drive out to hunting area. I can carry the motorcycle in the back too.  That’s the plan. For now I’m just delighted to have a motorhome to head south in winter with and to use for ‘glamping’ here. 

I just read they caught Charlie Kirk’s murderer.  I was disappointed seeing left wingers celebrating his murder. The Functional MRI shows that the brains of psychopaths act differently lacking empathy and rather than feeling sympathy take pleasure in other’s pain.  I wonder how much drugs affect that.  It’s sad to consider how many people today have such neurological deficits. I would have thought it was lack of socialization.  My mother taught us ‘not to speak ill of the dead’ and my cowboy relatives when we fought would stop when you were down..  The new savages aren’t satisfied with knocking you out but have to ‘curb’ your and hit you in the head.  

The Canadian Legal system and police are still in the 50’s and certainly don’t appreciate that so many of the gangs and kids have been exposed to to much video violence and drugs.  Dr. Grossman’s On Killing , the classic on socialization of violence and PTSD expressed concern about the dehumanization of the new video world.

Personally I’m looking forward to Fountain of Youth, this hotsprings spa I spent a couple of weeks at. My mentor psychiatrist minister friend goes south for the Dessert Springs hot springs.  I’m admittedly afraid of cold wet cloudy winters after Covid and having been so sick with bronchitis/pneumona and having had a year of treatment for TB after acquiring it as a fly in doctor in northern Canada. 

Now it’s hunting season and while I think of lying in mineral hot springs I’ve got to psych myself up for hiking in the woods and hoping to shoot a deer. I enjoy riding around the back woods on the quad with the dog stopping to shoot grouse or rabbits I see but I’m really hoping to shoot a deer.  So I will get out there soon. Laura and I have a week booked off in October. That’s our annual Thanksgiving hunt and in years gone by I’ve show deer, bear and one time a turkey.

I had thought I’d go hunting tomorrow but the excitement of this expedition with the Thor may be sufficient for the weekend. I’m hoping to check in at E&H Hitch to show them what I have to carry the Vespa south this year.  

Madigan is lying down beside me in the Dam Ford Lounge. I’m impressed they have cafe at lait from a machine and it’s really good.  

I’m thinking of wandering over to see how work is progressing. I’m so thankful to be here.  I prayed the whole way here and will pray on the return to. I really feel I’m blessed with a higher power that is a true guardian angel.  Thank you Jesus.

I’m so thankful I’ve made it this far today. Thank you Jesus for this day and for the wonderful Thor Hurricane and for Madigan. I’ve been texting Laura my progress and she’s been cheer leading.  I’m pretty comfortable driving the Thor on the highway. It’s just in town and tight traffic.  The GPS map is truly a godsend.  I don’t know how I navigating years past in strange cities without this. I’d have to pull over in my truck or motorcycle and check a paper map and try to remember directions. Now I can devote my attention to the road and just glance over at the moving map.

Thank you God for technology. Thank you God for Elon Musk’s progress on Starship and the plans to colonize Mars.  

Thank you Jesus!!!!

 

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