For three days and three nights our home base last
weekend was on a parking lot at Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY. No electricity,
water or sewage hookups. How did that work out for us? Actually it was much better
than I expected. Our electrical needs
were powered by an 85 watt solar panel on the top of The Wanderer. We do have a generator, but didn’t need to use it. Fortunately
we have the propane gas tank to cool the refrigerator and heat the water. We
had cold beer and hot showers! The fresh water tank held more than enough water
for washing dishes and quick showers. The black water tank (for sewage) and
gray water tank (all other waste water) were more than sufficient to hold our
waste water. With many years of tent camping experience, frugality with
resources came natural.
Without all those years of setting up camp in the rain,
trotting to campground restrooms in the middle of the night and sleeping on the
ground, I don’t think we would truly be able to appreciate the comforts of The Wanderer. We felt we were in
luxurious accommodations!
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| Stoker's View |
We were in Georgetown for the 38th Annual Horsey Hundred bicycle ride. We have lost track of the number of times we have participated in this ride. In all the
previous years we stayed in the noisy, college dorms with down the hall showers and restrooms; slightly better than sleeping
in tents. Did I mention how much we appreciate The Wanderer?
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| Stoker's View |
Horse country rates right up there with East Tennessee as
a favorite place to ride. Riding the rolling hills past horse farms and green
pastures is a tandem team’s dream.
We couldn’t help but think about the many friends with
whom we have shared this experience and there were a lot of “remember whens.”
Over the past 10 days, I (ABN) read a book (Storm
Clouds Rolling In, the first of Ginny Dye’s Bregdan Chronicles) and
finished a cross stitch piece started 14 years ago. Captain slept late,
tinkered with The Wanderer and read A
Wrinkle in Time. Together we cycled 188 miles, connected with friends and
enjoyed a new adventure. Yep, we think we will like retirement just fine!
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