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Our New House

It was brought to my attention that we haven’t updated our Blog since 2013. Since we have become stagnant and haven’t really traveled for a while I didn’t have much of interest to post. Not that our life isn’t interesting, there just isn’t much RV Travel going on.

Well recently we have turned another page in our lives. We decided since we like our lifestyle so much that buying a house wasn’t in our plans. However we have pretty much outgrown the RV so…

We bought a Park Model home in the same resort where we have lived for the last 11 years in the motor home. If you are not familiar with a Park Model, it is a small 400 square foot manufactured home. Ours however is a bit more than a simple park model. First off ours is set in the ground so it is ground level, then a 200 square foot addition was added making it 600 square foot overall and the whole thing is stuccoed and the roof is tiled. There is also a 117 square foot building on the property, which serves as a laundry room and a shop. This building is attached to the house by a covered patio with outdoor kitchen. Along with the real residential appliances they topped it off with an air conditioner that can turn the house into a meat locker in the 120-degree Arizona summers. You can see more photos by clicking on the link in the left column.

I have added a link to the photos of our house HERE.

So, although we are keeping the motor home, it looks like we are not Fulltimers anymore.

Best wishes to all our readers and I hope your travels are as enjoyable as ours.

I will leave the Blog up because I know others enjoy reading about our travels.

Monday, July 31, 2006

Jelly Belly

We toured the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield today. It was a nice drive to Fairfield past several Wineries. The tour of the factory was also pretty cool. There sure were a bunch of kids there. Guess it’s still summer so all the kids are out of school. The tour was about 40 minutes and they took you through the whole process of making the candy. They don’t let you take pictures inside the factory though. There are tons of jellybeans in that place and it sure smells good in there. I wonder how many of the workers snag jellybeans along the way. Some of the process is done by robots, which were interesting to watch. At the end of the process the beans go through screen that sort out the ones that are too large or too small. These are bagged and sold in their gift shop as Belly Flops. Nothing is wasted, the ones that fall on the floor are scooped up and sent off to pig farms as feed. They have so many different flavors and a recipe book on how to mix flavors to create others. They even had flavors such as Rotten Egg, Sardines, Boogers, Vomit, Roasted Garlic, and more. No Kidding! At the end of the tour you can spend some time in their gift shop where you can get clothes items, novelties, and yes, Jelly Bellies. Then you can go over to their cafĂ© and get a hamburger in the shape of a jellybean. It was a fun day.

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