'20/#20 Lets Make Blog '20/#20 Better Than The Year 2020

 20-20. The 20th blog of 2020. Well let's see what is going on. Our time here in South Dakota is coming to an end. It is the 4th quarter and the clock is ticking. If you follow this blog you know that the 4th quarter is the final segment of our commitment when hitch-itch (the urge to hook up and hit the road) gets the strongest. Our nomadic lifestyle dictates that we roam and sitting still too long makes us antsy. Also the "4th quarter" is the time that everything gets on your nerves. Some call it short-timer syndrome. Whatever it is called it is getting close to the time to leave.

As workcampers we feel that our jobs are to be flexible. This is a temporary job to fill a short term need. We are hired based on our work resumes and our accumulated life skills. Some feel that they are hired for one specific job and will do no more than that job. The options are either the employer accepts that or the employee moves on. We feel that if we can fill more than one position we become more valuable to the employer. That adds to and improves our resume. A good work ethic, the ability to work with others, and the ability to be flexible to get the job done are all assets that employers look for. The difficult worker... well not so much. Sorry about this little tirade, it is the hitch-itch coming out. 

If you have been following us on Facebook you know we have been seeing some of the sites in the area.  Some we have seen before and were worth another look and others we didn't get to see our last time in this neighborhood. We are also on the western edge of the middle of the country. This means wide open spaces making the area ideal for wind farms. No too long ago we saw the components for a new turbine being delivered. We took some pictures to show the size of these wind turbines. My estimate is the blades are over 200' long. That is our truck and the other is me pacing it off. Mind boggling!

Back to our hitch-itch. It looks like we will be returning to Florida for a full season for the first time in over four years. More about that when things get finalized. Today is our day off so we will do some laundry, make plans for our departure in about two weeks, and just rest a bit. So I will sign off so I can get busy not doing too much from our home in Hermosa because.....

Home is where we park it,

Frank and Mary

'20/#19 Off The Beaten Path

 We are still in South Dakota and just chillin' and checking things out at our leisure. One day while driving down Highway 79 we saw a sign for Buffalo Gap and thought we would see what we might see. The whole town is just under 200 acres and populated by less than 150 souls according to the last census. We took about 10 minutes to drive around the whole town at a crawl. There were mostly older wood frame homes, the occasional block building, and a few of the requisite mobile homes.

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One thing we did not see were people. It was a Sunday afternoon on a nice, comfortable, and slightly overcast day and there were NO people. We saw cows but no people. There were a few horses but no people. We even saw some wild turkeys but NO people. There was a grill smoking in a side yard but there was no one attending the fire or the food that may have been cooking on the grill. Plenty of decade old cars with what appeared to be current tags but no one to drive them.

It started to feel a little spooky and there was nothing else to see so we left with a sense that this might just be a little ghost town here in southeast South Dakota. It was good o get back to our RV park with people and our home here in Hermosa because....

Home is where we park it,

Frank and Mary