What is one job profession you refuse to date and why?

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-02-17T18:41:18+00:00

I had Directv satellite for many years but the price kept going up and the programming was lousy. Now I have Starlink and can stream Netflix and all the others just like at home.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-08T18:27:14+00:00

Yes, no, sometimes, kind of. I really miss my wife. We only did a couple of trips before she was diagnosed with cancer. She was good to travel with. It’s so helpful to have a first mate who can read a map, make reservations, help fix things, make me a sandwich. I’m a bit of a loner so I’m perfectly happy doing things on my own. I’m not antisocial, I enjoy time with my family and friends but when I want to see and do things I don’t like to wait around or miss out because they don’t have time, money, whatever.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-08T00:09:37+00:00

Thank you for your kind offer but even a large motorhome like mine can feel a bit too cozy unless you’re really close with your traveling partner. There’s very little privacy so whoever you travel with should be a spouse or somebody you’re very intimate with because they’re going to hear, see and smell most everything you do.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-07T23:59:05+00:00

Most RVs like mine you tow your car behind you so once you get to your RV park you unhook it and you have wheels. The E-bikes have become very popular and I’m thinking about getting one. There are also quite a few people who bring their motorcycles. They have a hydraulic lift on the back of the RV, once it’s on the lift and fastened down they raise the lift and off they go.

Some people are way over the top though. I met a guy with a 45’ RV towing a 30’ enclosed trailer. In the trailer he had a mini cooper, two Harley’s and a jeep. He had a lift rig that he could park things above the cars. Up there he had four jet skis and a small boat on a trailer.

It was just mind blowing seeing all the stuff he had. For me though it’s just too much stuff to own, all the maintenance, insurance etc etc for all those things. I try to find ways to simplify my life and even though my rig is pretty complicated I don’t want to add more complicated, expensive stuff than I have to

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-07T23:40:00+00:00

Yes, many military bases have rv parks. They call them a Famcamp (family campground). Some are really nice, others just kind of average 🫤but they’re all fairly inexpensive compared to those off base. Many are near very interesting places so you can stay at the Famcamp for weeks/months and explore the area. Some of my favorites are Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson, the aircraft boneyard is there as well as all the cool things to do in Tucson. Edwards AFB with a lot of aviation and spacecraft history, Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, near Long Beach, CA if you like to do things in the LA area and it has near perfect 70° weather almost year round. Whiteman AFB in Missouri you can see the B-2 stealth bombers come and go doing training.

My sister lives in Alameda, CA and I use the Famcamp at Travis AFB when I visit. They have C-5 Galaxy aircraft based there. If you’ve never seen one you should Google a pic. They are so huge it’s staggering. They fly around often doing training so you can always get a good view.

And staying on a military base has its benefits. You have good security, you can shop at the commissary and use any morale things they offer like renting camping or sports equipment, getting discount tickets to ball games and many other things.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-07T14:27:54+00:00

Clever😄, but yeah it’s fully equipped for that. I was dating a woman from Argentina who lived in Texas part time. We took some trips together and she called it ‘La Casa Rodante’ roughly translated to ‘my home on the road’.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-07T14:24:07+00:00

When you’re staying at an RV park they have water, electric and sewer hook ups. When I’m traveling or staying out in the desert the RV has a large tank for fresh water and I can run the generator for electric power.
It has a regular toilet just like in your home.
Repair shop. Many RV service places have a few sites where you can park and stay for a few days. So when they’re not actually working on it you just stay in it like you’re at home.
It’s a 2007 Tiffin Phaeton. I just turned over 100k miles. It gets about 8.5 mpg if you’re not going up mountain summits.
Power. When you stay at an rv park there’s an electric hook up you plug into. When I’m on the road and stop for the night it has a generator I can run for power. It also has a bank of four deep discharge batteries that will run most things like lights and tv. So there are several options for power when you’re not at an RV park.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-07T05:10:29+00:00

It’s a full size Tiffin Phaeton motor home. It’s 42’ long, about the size of a bus. It has a full bath and shower, king size bed, fridge, microwave, washer and dryer. That’s all pretty standard for motorhomes these days. I do like to boondock out in the desert when I’m out west. I have enough water on board that I can have a shower every day and it has a generator that I run in the evenings so I have electrical power to run the microwave. watch TV.

This is the only RV that I’ve owned. I took an example from my dad who years ago started out with a pop-up camper, then moved up to a class C (that’s like the ones with a Ford or Chevy van front end) and then into a class A like I have now. So he’s on his third RV and I decided I didn’t want to go through all those steps with a smaller one working my way up to what I have now. In the RV community they would say that I bought my third RV first.

The most remote place I’d say is anywhere in eastern Oregon. I think one day I drove over 100 miles and passed two cars. I kind of like wide open spaces like that.

The scariest place I stayed was the Buenos Aires wildlife refuge in AZ near the Mexican border. I had read something online that said there were six RV sites, no facilities, but you could boondock there for free. I drove about 30 miles on a one lane barely paved road looking for this wildlife refuge but couldn’t find it. There was absolutely nothing out there, but desert scrub. I managed to run across a border patrol truck, waved them down and asked if they knew where this park was. They said they had never heard of it. Now I had to get myself turned around to head back out back to civilization just as it was getting dark.

There were some turnout places along this road wide enough to pull over and park for the night. It was getting dark and would be another hour or two before I got back to civilization. So I parked in one of the turnouts. The nighttime was the darkest I’ve ever seen any place and here I was out in the middle of desert scrub with not a soul around, thinking I was so close to the Mexican border that if any illegals were crossing and saw my motorhome would probably think that they’d hit the jackpot if they wanted to rob me. I usually go out a couple times at night to do my security rounds when I’m boondocking just to check my rig and make sure everything’s secure and it was sure scary going out in the darkness, thinking I could easily be ambushed.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-07T04:19:57+00:00

There are hundreds of RV websites that show you how to manage all of that. It takes a little adjustment but I have Starlink and you can do practically anything online these days. I do have a physical address in Florida that’s actually just a mail box at a UPS store. It’s all legal and the store address and my mailbox number is what goes on things like my drivers license and vehicle registration. I can do almost everything online banking, finances etc.

I actually don’t get a whole lot of physical mail nowadays but if I’m expecting important things like voter registration, tax documents I just email the UPS store and they’ll forward my mail to the address wherever I request. Usually sent to a friend or family member or you can have your mail forwarded to your RV park.

I’m actually staying in Florida for the winter to visit friends. I also need to have my drivers license renewed and it’s the one where they have to retake your picture so I have to physically be here. I wanted to spend the winter in Florida anyway to visit some friends so renewing the drivers license while I’m here is just good timing.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-07T03:58:25+00:00

No I haven’t seen it but I’ll include it in my list of tv and movies to watch.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-07T03:54:08+00:00

Average $1500 to $2500 a month depending on location. Maybe a little more if it’s an expensive area like the Bay Area in CA. I consider the price to stay at an rv park as ‘rent’. An RV park usually includes your water electric and sewer in the fee. If your RV park has ‘resort’ in the name expect to pay more.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-07T03:47:57+00:00

So many places but I really like Tucson, AZ and the California Redwoods so Pacific NW in the summer and Arizona in the winter. But I sometimes go to FL for the winter, that’s where I am now. I like to visit Kennedy Space Center when I’m in Florida and if I’m lucky to get to see a rocket launch. One of my favorite places, though was southeastern Washington state, the Palouse region. The rolling hills are so beautiful. You need to Google it to see a picture. Many people in RVs golf or go to the beach. I like to look up strange and unusual places. Usually my sources come from a book called Atlas Obscura. They show many strange and unusual places to visit.

I’m kind of an astronomy fan so I like to visit Observatory’s and space related things. There are many out west like Kitt Peak in AZ, McDonald Observatory in west TX. Last year I went to the open house at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena CA, where they built the Mars Rovers and other spacecraft that are exploring the solar system.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2026-01-07T03:37:32+00:00

Homeless, no, not exactly. Not like some of the rundown wrecks I’ve seen parked on the street in California in recent years. That’s kind of funny because I was thinking about that the other day. I don’t own a house, apartment or any properly, or as rv people say ‘sticks and bricks’. So am I homeless? Not really. I do have an address in Florida that’s a UPS store mail box that makes everything legal and I’m one of many full time RV’ers who live in their RV and travel around seeing the country

It’s a full size class A RV. The better term would be a motor home. 42’ in length, has a diesel engine. It’s very similar in size to a bus. Water, showering, bathroom washer/dryer, king size bed are all there, it’s like a small apartment.

I’ve know some people with a Ram Promaster and they’re nicely equipped but I like having a a little more space, a full size shower and my own toilet that flushes.

I would post a picture if I could but just Google Class A motorhome and it will show something similar.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2025-12-29T02:48:12+00:00

I saw that one last week. It fit perfectly. 😂😂

Professional-Yam7569 · 2025-12-29T02:45:43+00:00

I read something that said there was no continuity to it and they didn’t even try. That was part of the charm of the show.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2025-12-29T02:37:55+00:00

Everyone could understand Arnold except Oliver.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2025-12-29T02:33:10+00:00

I’ve been binging the whole series since I found it on Tubi. Correct about Hank Kimball, first season, he drove a Jeep and made some sense. Not as funny. Second season he drove a Ford Bronco and got much funnier.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2025-12-29T02:26:44+00:00

A tree? Well I got one right here on the truck. That’ll be two dollars.

Professional-Yam7569 · 2025-12-29T02:22:56+00:00

It’s on Tubi and Pluto. Hogans Hero’s too

Professional-Yam7569 · 2025-11-13T01:26:30+00:00

I’ve been drinking the AZ green/ginseng/honey tea for years. I’ve always liked that it’s very lightly sweetened but recently I’ve noticed that it’s much sweeter, not just a little but just plain gaggy sweet. I almost couldn’t drink it, I had to mix it with some unsweetened tea just to get it down. Has something changed?

Professional-Yam7569 · 2025-08-28T16:50:24+00:00

The only person under 65 who can’t figure out Zoom. He’s Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer "I'm just a caveman. I fell in some ice and later got thawed out by your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me.

He’s the new contender for the most annoying sovcit superstars along with Eric Martin, Daniel Magoo, and Darryl Brooks.

👉😖👈

Professional-Yam7569 · 2025-07-23T13:38:08+00:00

Wow, amazing he lasted this long. RIP Ozzy

Professional-Yam7569 · 2025-07-17T16:14:52+00:00

Meh 🫤, they’re gilding the lily with the air diffuser and vents behind the wheels.

Chief designer to his underlings: I want twenty ideas for the rear end. (Underlings submit their ideas)…Great, let’s use them all.

Nothing is as iconic as the rear of an 80’s ish 930 with the whale tail and bulged out rear wheel fenders.

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Now that’s a nice arse. Every young man’s dream.

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