In the past year, we've lost so many people that I can't remember to mention each of their names when making the proverbial list with friends and that just breaks my heart. More than breaking my heart, I believe that it broke my spirit and I know for a fact that it CRUSHED my creativity and stole the joy from my life! With each of these losses and all of the mourning I've been living with (the mourning I thought had ended, until it bitch slaps me out of nowhere), I try to appreciate life and the things I'm blessed with. I also promised Diane that I would try to get us back on the road more, together because I'm gone so damn much. The problem is the damn dogs, you remember those monsters right? Well to go away, you need to have someone to cover the house and the beasts. Sometimes we are lucky and family steps up, other times we rely on a sitter but even their lives have moved on and the thought of just giving a stranger the keys to the house and all we've ever worked for makes me throw up a little in my mouth even typing it. So how do you keep a promise and solve a problem at the same time you ask? Well you tell your ol' lady your thoughts and let her get to work on the world wide web like a great huntress of yesteryear! I'll tell you this folks, when she is on a mission, nothing stops her until she achieves it. If you remember years ago, we picked up an amazing Barth Motorhome. if you don't remember, here is a pic or two of her. The pic below was taken the week we got her and just put brand new tires on her and down the freeway for the first time.
So I mentioned that I've been driving her all over the place abnd can't bring myself to sell her and here is why. To keep my promise to Diane about travel and spending more time together enjoying life while we are still capable of doing it, I let the little woman loose on the net with a mission and she killed her prey!
WE BOUGHT A BUS! For years now, thanks to GTP, I've been fascinated with tiny houses and tiny living albeit impossible for someone like me who is a border line pack rat. But I digress. Since I learned of this I've been set up on a website to get auto mailed everytime listings come up and after seeing Dakota's school bus conversion I was blown away. I've dreamt of a bus for years now but I haven't had the time to do the last ten percent of the Barth, when the hell would I convert a school bus into a motorhome? The problem with finding a bus that is already a touring bus, not a passenger bus is a bitch and the only ones in our budget were ancient and falling apart and potential money pits! Regardless of all of these factors, a guy can still look right? In my searhes, I learned quite a bit about the manufacturers and models. Much like the Barth pictured above that I own, the Rolls Royce of motorhomes of its era, I happened upon a BlueBird Wanderlodge on a lot one day here in AZ and I took a good long look at it and I was blown away. I'd never seen anything like it. I put the idea out of my head of actually ever owning one but I never forgot seeing and being inside my first Bird! One day Diane asks me, "hey babe, what kind of bus was it that we saw that day at the dealer"? I told her and she said, take a look at this..... and showed me a sale listing. THE FIRE WAS LIT AGAIN! To make a very long story short, below is the bus that Diane found three months after finding the listing that I just mentioned and honestly, I could not believe the details and even better, it was ten miles away from my house! So for those who have not seen my posts on FB when I got her, here are two quick pics of both sides of her!
If anyone is interested in purchasing the Barth Motorhome or wants more details on it, just leave me a comment on here and I'll put up a post with lots of details soon as well.
In the mean time, this week is the annual Bob's Biker Blast at HD of Scottsdale, our annual event that benefits Phoenix Children's Hospital and I'm damn excited about it. Last year at the event we had the one and only Doobie Brothers come in and play and this year it will be a "threefer" Craig Morgan, Kellie Pickler and Montgomery Gentry and I hope to top the money we raised last year. We more than doubled the amount of the previous year and raised 78 grand for the hospital but the one and only Bob Parsons or Doctor Bob as I love to call him said that just ain't enough and the Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation added a million bucks to that. Yes, a million bucks! To top it all off, I even got to be there for the check presentation. Who gets to hand over more than a million bucks in their lives...... this guy right down here and I pray we top it this year!
Keep the wind in your face,
tits in your back and
THE MAN OFF YOUR ASS!
Your friend,
Jack Schit
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