End of the Trail - Last Post - Moving to a Fresh Blog

I'm making the final move now. I can't seem to get the powers that be to let me hang the new blog on the nav bar of the website like has been done in the past... so the only way to keep up is to bookmark the fresh blog.

This blog will fade into being an "Archve"... all Fresh Posts will be on my New Blog;

A Fine Horse in New Country

If you'd like to keep up with where I'm goin' and what I'm about that'll be the place to do it. 

Hope to see you on down the trail a ways.

- Brian

I'll Soon Be Rolln' My "Bedroll" Out in a Fresh Camp...

I'm working on a "change of venue". That's one of those writes euphemisms for; I'm starting up a fresh blog. I came to thinking I needed something that was more fitting to how I'm going these days and what I'm about...

Onliest trouble is__As seldom as I set such things up, getting it done is a piece of work. There's a fancy bit of elektawnic dancing that has to be done... and nobody, especially the ones who created the system have a real working idea of how to go about it.

When you factor in all the eggheads sitting behind the keyboards for the big outfits running this show__(The internet) it gets danged messy. They repeatedly "Improve" things (That is - mostly fix what ain't broke just so they've something to do). The result is, it takes twice as much work and a week of blue smoke, bad names and dirty words to sort through the "Improvement"... and generally the beer brewers sales improve as a consequence... I needed an excuse... Right?

Been trying - and failing - to get a Fresh Blog linked to my RV Website... they've made it so hair pulling convoluted, and I've no hair left to pull... that I'm questioning the value of goin' through their exercise.

The hoops to jump through are way to disjointedly explained, with far too many "mights" and "sometimes" and "Ifs" used in relation to their directions. That gives them an 'Out' when it doesn't work and nobody knows why... (which is from my perusal of the forums where folks are struggling for help with the "new" and "improved" and "Easy" system...

The likelihood is I'll abandon that lil' enterprise and just go a different way with it.

Not a bad thing... it'd fit into the simplification I'm truly trailing just now. Much of the "Internet" has lost a lot of its shine for this old buster.

That said A Fine Horse in New Country will be taking over as my "Main" blog in the very near future... there's little to read there just now... only a paragraph or so and some page headers for pages I have yet to build... all just to give me something to post as an initial test and to lay the foundations for me to tinker with.

Soooo... I'd appreciate it, if you want to keep on trailing along, if you went there and "Followed" me again. The gadget to do that is right there on the right hand side... 'Course as always, you can just bookmark it too.

I've got all sorts of doodles and ideas I want to work on (and write about) in the future so might could be the 'Semi-sabbatical" I've been on for a while is winding down. We shall see.

This blog will remain... I'll write a "Link" post here when I make the final move (and this blog will remain (along with my very first blog) as an "Archive" and a way for people to find where I went!

Many Thanks
Brian

Is It Still Christmas in January When You HAVE to Buy New Tools?

Remember the old line about bein' a one legged man in a butt kickin' contest? Or even better... those scenes in Star Wars, when they jump to Hyper Space? and looking out the windows of the Millennium Falcon the stars all go WAAAA-WHOOOOOOSH! ??

THAT, is how I'm feelin' lately.

You might remember, back in September, maybe it was October, my main laptop went KERCHUNK! Well, its repairable for a few hundred bucks. But then, it being as old as it is, I'm still left with a tool of rapidly decreasing function considering the advance of all the other junk around it... arrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhh...

All that was/is rolled in with the axles and tires getting whacked, the grey tank breaking, the water heater earlier in the summer, and then the water heater quit igniting just before I left for Denver... but healed itself while I was gone! ;) and a few other odds and ends to keep a pussgut, soap box preachin', Liberty Lovin', cranky old buster off balance.

So... after keeping that boat afloat... utilizing much the same mindless manipulation of dollars I don't have that the government uses! :) oooooofffffffff! SBI, my internet provider and guru... finally got around to including me in their heavy upgrade of their Website building system... compounding GOOGLE's having dropped another of its lil' bombs last summer/fall that has had the world of the blogger/website builder in a bit of a turmoil because of its impact on their traffic...

Got all that? :) so... that's why I'm feelin' a lot like the dog chasin' his tail.

Well... the bottom line is... my websites/blogs having grown to be a weighty % of our income, there's been damage of some sort to that income.

Now of course, me being me its a lot less clear than it could be! Why keep anything simple right? ;)

While my traffic...that is, the visits from all my treasured and appreciated readers is as high or higher than ever, (on both the blogs and websites) and is running  contrary (fits me huh?) to the "down" impact that many saw with Google's Panda, the income hasn't kept pace, in fact degenerating a bit.

The upstart is... I have to rebuild both my websites, RV Boondocking the Good life and motorcycle touring the good life  to fit well into the new and improved SBI BB2 system as well as address the Google system changes.

You might have seen a few weird color changes on the RV site in the past few days? That was the migration happening. I fixed the thing temporarily... but now, behind the curtain, I have to go in and completely rebuild ~ build new... something near 400 pages... and that can't be done on this lil Acer 10".

Long winded way of saying I finally bit the bullet late last night and ordered with some of that imaginary money... a replacement for the busted Dell Computer from a place called newegg.com.

It's one of those times where you have two choices; A bad choice and a worse one. My laptop(s) aren't down time toys. For me they are a carpenters tools used to make his living. I can stick by my principles and starve, or suck it up... Cowboy Up... and get on down the road.

So... You'll likely see a few changes again around this place over the coming weeks and months as I rebuild into the new system... Can you hear the growling of an  old codger who REALLY resists changes? :)

aw... it'll likely come out ok. In fact it kinda opens up the opportunity for some reorganization and refocusing I've been cogitating on anyway... and it'll keep me out of the bars!

Running 90 miles an hour with no hair left to be on fire
Brian

Yup... It's That Time Again...

Time to shake things up a mite... Gonna change the Logo bar up top too... still tinkering with the new Pictures... *actually came back and changed it already :o) whatcha' think?*

Have you noticed? Something is the same, 'round me for a while... I get itchy to see what's new... somewhere... trucks, roads... hell, even Motorcycles! Some call it an affliction... Some call it, a blessing... Me, I like to call it restless curiosity... and I just call it... Me! :o)

So... Leaving me settin' alone out in the desert gives me waaaaaaay too much time to cogitate and scheme up some more trouble... and yup... I been thinkin' as me and the dogs ramble across the desert on these sunny days...

You know... a lot of folks ask me questions like; "We're goin' to Yellowstone... or Arizona... we're gonna there a whole week... What's the list of things to see? Is there enough to keep us busy?" ... You get the picture...

I grew up in Arizona, and started cowboyin' there... wearin' the steel off a lot of horses feet wandering that desert. I've been wandering to and through Yellowstone, since 1968... I've not seen all of either... yet. Lost count of the runs up to Yellowstone. I even horse packed the back country there for a living for a while.... and I've still only seen a fraction of what's there to see...

My point?... You can't see it all in one trip... or a dozen... SO... don't screw up the trip you're on... by even trying to!

What brings this up in the tangled mess that amounts to my Thinkin'? ALASKA! :o)

Went last year Solo on My Raider... and, fruit loops or not... we're goin' back, draggin' the rig we've got... This year... likely the mileage will tally up something close to what I racked up on the bike last August...

Now... if you lay the map of Yellowstone... in the same scale... next to a map of British Columbia, The Yukon... and ... ALASKA... drip in there a few thoughts about how I ain't even managed to fill my eyeballs with all of Yellowstone yet...

... are you startin' to catch my drift? There's a whole lot to see up there along the ALCAN, which for a lot of us is the Last Frontier...

So... I've been thinkin' hard about HOW, to make that Journey... the first time, the second time... and any other times... 'cause, no way in hell, can I see but a fraction of that Glorious Land...

My thinkin' is workin' like this... we'll travel easy for a few days, starting' early and stopping early... maybe two or three... making as many boondocking night camps as we can on those Travel Days (to stretch our budget best we can)... and then, have a few places picked out where we'll set up for a few days... or a week... or whatever seems right... to put the Raider on the ground...

... and do a lot of day tripping along the Alaskan Highway, from there... to SEE... as best we can... the sights and personality, of that local area.

I know, for sure and for certain, there's things we're gonna roll on past... things we'd wish to see... but we can not see it all... it just can't happen... defies physics... even in the warped brain pan of a Biker Cowboy... so... those things'll have to wait... for another hoped for return... Alaska III ? :o)

and we'll do the best we can to do honor to the things We Can See...

... and that's the best advice I can give to anybody wandering any where... take the time to see where you're at... and accept the fact that you just can't see it all... so do it right, with what you can...

Do what you CAN do... and quit worryin' 'bout what you may have missed... or you'll miss it all!

This Desert Has My Brain Smokin' Again! :o)
-Brian

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A Cowboy Has to Ride... We'll be Back On The Road Around Mid Day...

Doin' one last morning of baby sitting Miss Jillian... or at least Heidi will be. I'll be gettin' the truck ready to roll for Sante Fe.

None to soon either. The cooperative weather is gonna quit tomorrow with another bit of snow. Missing that won't hurt my feelings at all. I'm ready to get back down where bad weather is measured in; "Oh Darn, I got to put a jacket on this morning."

Been a busy last week here. Especially considerin' I was supposed to already be sufferrin' through the soft winter back in Arizona again! :o)

Along with doing a rework on the Daughters Old sewing/craft room; that had got itself unintentionally mutated into a catch all junk room after the baby came along, I did some more of that Website Housekeeping I talked about a few days ago.

Part of that housekeeping was actually setting up a third site/blog... Yeah... I know... a glutton for punishment... but I'm trying to follow the guidance of fellers that are supposed to be smarter than me...

Yeah... OK... I know that ain't much of a challenge... when you're done with the horse laughin' and can catch your breath let me know... and I'll continue...........

......... Ok... Settled down now? :o)

Well, ever'body I talk to 'bout publishing and such says the same thing as one of the first things they say... No matter who you are, or how you're published; an indie publisher of ebooks or a guy that's got an agent and a traditional publisher, unless you're in the top couple of %, most of the promoting and marketing of your stories is gonna fall right square on you.

So... the first thing they say you have got to have is an Author Platform. So... I built one...

I got to feeling like I was confusing things 'round here, what with all the ebook stuff I was yakkin' on. THIS is supposed to be an RV Boondocking place... not a publishers platform... and that's what it'll be into the future... as I wander 'round on 12 wheels, gypsy living and spinnin' my yarns.

So... though there'll be links here... to my BK Gore author platform that linking is gonna be kept kinda low key... and I'll keep things RV 'round here...

If you wanted to take a look at my new writing/ebook blog that'd be sweet and much appreciated. It's not anywhere near done or complete, but you can let me know what you think... and if you have a yearning to keep up with what's goin' on in my writing journey that should be 'bout the best place to find out the up to date events... that's hopin' that there'll be any events to write about! :o)

Another one of those melancholy Leavings  comin' on today. We'll be pullin' south around noon. Have you ever heard that Ol' song; "Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys."? ... Much of what it says is the gospel...

Nobody... and few if any women understand 'em. We've got a gypsy itch that dwarfs that of most RVers. I mean... if we set in one place too long we don't just start itchin'... we get the wiggly quivers, we get morose... we get darn right testy! We get in a way that's just unpleasant to be around...

... and it's like the weather. It's comin'... you know it... we know it... and there ain't one dang thing either of us can do about it... You can control a Cowboy's personality like you can control the wind in Wyoming.

I see an Eagle soaring and I'm jealous. If I'm horseback in far country or rolling on the road somewhere, on the Raider... or the seat of the truck... or even standing in a boondock camp somewhere, I look up and smile; "Right there with ya buddy!"

... but... have me standing in the aisle of  a hardware store... sellin' plumbing parts to some individual who don't know PVC from "Oh say can you see"... and that dull, nauseous churning gets to wiggling, deep inside.

So... though part of me is Melancholy to be Leaving... I have to be honest... right beside that is a deep rooted Joy for a Cowboy Biker... that I truly don't have the words to do justice to. There are those of you, I think, who understand my affliction. To the rest I can only say what's often said in the motorcycle world...

If I have to explain it... you won't understand.

On the Road Again
Brian

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Ever Closer to the House Sale...

After the past couple of years... we're in that 'place' where... we want to start gettin' excited... but just keep workin' at NOT. :-)

THIS contract FEELS real... it FEELS like it's stronger... but bein' a natural born cynic :-) I'm at the point of holdin' my breath...

There is a problem with that though... Uh... we got a whole month left before we close... so I better find something to do ... right... that keeps my mind on other things, or I'll be in no shape to do anything when we are clear!

The RV Remodel is sort of in suspended animation, waitin' on Home Despot to haul in that last box of flooring I need... I expect to get a call today or tomorrow... I'm Hopin'!

and... as you can see... The Blog Remodel is movin' along as well... I'm slowly trying to get the 'RV Daily Blog' moved over to this page... I'm likely gonna keep on posting some notices on the other page getting folks to move over to here... and Bookmark this one... and then... I'll start 'converting' that'n to it's New Purpose...

I also have to go through the work of trying to fire up another page for the foundation of a Boondocking Campsite list... I think... 'cause I Think the way I'm seein' to do that would be a useful thing

So... I may not be movin' real fast... but I ain't sittin' on my hands neither! :-)
Later Folks

Till then;

Take Good Care
Brian

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First Post of the "NEW" System

The First post of the "NEW" goin' RV Boondocking BLOG system...

Goin' to this system in my never ending pursuit of Cowboy Publishing Perfection... :-) Hey, I can dream can't I?

This is just a 'TEST', since, near as I can tell... ain't nobody can even find this setup yet... Lost in Internet Space...

I can tell now... this is gonna take some lil' time to work the kinks out of this 'stuff'... but then... Aw it'll be Shinin' Times once again... and we can all get back to RV Boondocking and Motorcycle Touring... on Freedom Road! ... right? :-)

Take Good Care
Brian