First, Rich glad you’re back to being healthy and it was fortunate that you were in an area with a good medical center close by. Secondly, thanks for bringing up the point to have our traveling partner familiar with processes that the other does. And finally, Cindy you did great driving and parking the truck. After five years of driving our Sequoia there are times I still can’t seem to get it evenly between the lines. BTW, last year at one of the rallies we signed for SkyMed as a just in case plan to supplement our medical plans. You just never know…
Thanks so much for watching and the nice comments. It's funny, we think we're doing the right thing by having C tow and drive the truck but we never thought of her doing it in the dark or when it's raining. It's the little things but she did great!
Thanks Sue for watching! Yes, she did rock it. It's funny - we think we're prepared because she practices driving the truck every year but we never thought to do so in the rain, in the dark, or in the dark and rain. Lesson learned. BTW, I'm feeling great - thanks for your thoughts.
Rich, so glad you are back to health. Cindy, you did great with the Luv Truck and keeping the Luv Sub in tip-top shape. Sad that part of our time together at Land Yacht Harbor was with you in the hospital, but we look forward to future time spent together. Love you guys.
Ive always been neurotic about this especially on boat trips...1st mate has to know how to maneuver, turn on sync, and follow the chart plotter, use the radio, etc. Glad you're better. I got hit with influenza "A" before Christmas and it sucked big time. No pneumonia (despite 45 yrs of smoking) but it took 3 weeks until I felt 100%. My doc said flu shot was formulated to "B variants" this year and would not have helped for the type "A'. Funny little germs these viruses. Great job Cindy, I am sure you were stressed, but ya did great. And yes fellow adventurers are the best!
Thanks for watching Blue Star Industrial! You so right about knowing the systems. Our failure was that we always did our "training" in perfect weather. Thus the issue with lights, wipers, etc. Still, I agree with you - C did great!
Wow! Take care of yourselves! I ended up doing my first hospital stay ever last August. It was a week with four trips to the OR under anesthesia. It was a blood infection in my leg. Anyway, one of the lessons learned is to have a long phone charing cable (or two), because a cell phone and ipad are your only connections to the outside world. This includes staying in touch with family, banking, email, etc.
Thanks for watching and we hope all is well now. A long charging cord is a great idea. Whenever C showed up the first thing I gave her was my phone to get its charge. We also keep a few "fuel rods" and it would have been good if I had one as a backup. Safe travels.
Sounds like a crash course in solo RVing along with the added stress of having your partner in the hospital. Looks like you did a great job managing it though ❤. Glad you’re feeling better Rich. Great video.
Thanks for watching and the super nice comment. Cindy did great! It was stressful but like many things, we came out all the better. Thanks for thinking of me.
Gosh, what a learning experience, glad Rich is all good now!! This definitely makes me what to learn how to do a few more things on the AS!! Good job, Cindy!!
Thanks for watching! Yes, it was an eye opening experience for us as well. We like to think we're super experienced after 21 years but then something like this happens and you realize how much you do not know...
Cindy! Great job! Rich... so glad you are better. It looked like you lost 20 pounds. No worries, Cindy's great cooking will have you back to normal in no time!
Thanks Denise! I'll have you know that I was an excellent patient. I hopefully made the nurses laugh and never complained. The weight probably came off because they never took my wine order for dinner very seriously...
Glad Rich is doing better! My wife broke her ankle in Acadia National Park in September, requiring emergency surgery in Bar Harbor. We were faced with no weight bearing on her ankle, a walker, and climbing in & out of the F150 & Basecamp 20x. I improvised some leveling blocks to aid in climbing in & out of the truck. We made the two day drive home safely but it was stressful on both of us. Regarding the headlights on the F150, it took me a while to master them on our 2021 Powerboost. I leave them on automatic now 😀 I too struggle to park it. We fled western NY and are at Sebastian Inlet State Park right now. Enjoy your travels!
Thanks for watching! Bummer about Acadia but using leveling blocks to help get in and out of your vehicles was a Varsity Level MacGyver Move! We've made it back to Vermont so Sebastian Inlet sounds pretty good to us right now...
Rich - glad you are doing better, out of the Hospital and back home. We can totally relate to everything you both are going through. Diane has been hospitalized for the past three weeks here in San Diego. It’s really hard going through this a way from home, not knowing what will happen next. Happy to know yours had a goos out come. BTW - Defrosting the refrigerator is the last thing on my mind as my partner is in the hospital.
Hi Randy. Wow. We will be keeping Diane in our thoughts. Hopefully she will be back up and in the Airstream in no time. But you are right - it can be very difficult going through all the craziness of health issues while away from home. I'm sure even Zephyr and Monty are going crazy. Again, please say "Hello" to Diane and let her know we're thinking of her.
Rich, I'm glad you are feeling better and out of the hospital. Great job Cindy on solo camping and driving. Your video hit a tender spot for me since I'm solo RVing with my 87 pound pup. I'd have to find someplace for him to stay before going into the hospital and that might be a challenge.
Thanks for watching! The thing is - events like this are seldom planned. I went in to the hospital just wanting a prescription cough medicine and ended up there six nights! It's good to have an emergency plan...
Happy to see you've recovered Rich. These are definitely things we need to address as well--my husband and I have talked about it, but I've been a bit of a coward to tow. Guess I gotta get it together. Great topic and great tips!
Glad you have recovered. Six days, now a days, is a long stay in a hospital. You were seriously sick. After joint replacement I went home six hours after I entered the hospital. We can relate to having a medical issue and trying to figure out what to do. My husband spent 12 hours in the ER, Urgent Care wouldn't take him, in Atlanta, GA. Eight hours waiting to see a doctor in the waiting room and then in a small room by himself. What we learned from that experience, if you have a bit of time, is to find out the wait times of the ER at various hospitals. Just do a quick Google search. We ended up at a facility with the longer than average wait times. Of course, a serious emergency, call an ambulance and you might move to the front of the line versus a walk in. We cut our trip short by a week and he got the additional care he needed at home with little wait time.
Thanks for watching and the helpful tips on wait times. The doctor said that if I had not regularly gotten my flu shot that this could have killed me. I'm glad it didn't because we have much more Airstreaming in our systems!
Hi Rich and Cindy! Did you play cards in the hospital? What a learning experience this became. We are so glad that you recovered so nicely from this health scare. Bet you’re happy to be back in Vermont, be careful in the snow. We really enjoyed seeing you both in Tampa. ❤
Thanks so much! Yes, we played our favorite card game - it's called "Squirrels". I'm feeling great even though I would prefer Florida to snow right about now... We had a great time at the brewery!
Thanks for sharing your story. Glad all is well. You looked fully recovered at the RV show. I need to know how everyone else knew about this except us! Wanderlocal told us about you when we saw them a few days earlier! I can’t imagine going from Florida weather to Vermont snow!
Hi guys! We posted on our Community Page which you should get notifications for. Sorry you missed it. I probably should have done a FB post as well. My blood must have thinned the short time we were down south as I have not been warm since we got back home.
Moving Forward Adventures has said the same thing. Beyond the Wheel podcasts sometimes does an after action safety brief from recent RV mishaps and tools and actions to minimize risk.
Thanks for watching and that's a great idea. I watch a sailing channel called Sailing Ruby Rose. They just had an episode where they dragged their anchor for over a mile out to sea. His After Action Brief was excellent and one of those things that I hope many more people watch.
I am glad you are feeling better Rich! That stuff is no fun at all. Cindy you did great! My Cindy drives our 350 Dually often just for cases like this.
Thanks for watching and I am indeed feeling better. It's great that your Cindy can drive an F-350 dually. It's one of the reasons that we got the 150. My Cindy just felt entirely uncomfortable in the 250 (and our Airstream is pretty small). Safe travels!
A very true statement! The worst part was that I went into the Emergency room in my crab shorts. I would have garnered much more respect with the flamingo shorts...
Hi Campfirerob and thanks for watching! Cindy tows once per year to keep her comfortable. This year we even had "backing into the campsite" training which was good for both of us. Safe travels.
WOW guys! 😮 What an ordeal! Glad to hear you’re up and running! Looks like you both survived although it looks like Rich lost a little weight in the process. Look forward to seeing you back on the road!
Thanks for watching and thinking of me. Though the hospital did a passing job with their meal service, not eating Cindy's cooking was probably a major reason behind the weight loss.
First, Rich glad you’re back to being healthy and it was fortunate that you were in an area with a good medical center close by. Secondly, thanks for bringing up the point to have our traveling partner familiar with processes that the other does. And finally, Cindy you did great driving and parking the truck. After five years of driving our Sequoia there are times I still can’t seem to get it evenly between the lines. BTW, last year at one of the rallies we signed for SkyMed as a just in case plan to supplement our medical plans. You just never know…
Thanks so much for watching and the nice comments. It's funny, we think we're doing the right thing by having C tow and drive the truck but we never thought of her doing it in the dark or when it's raining. It's the little things but she did great!
CINDY!!! You crushed it, girl! I’m sure that was very scary. So glad Rich is feeling better. I need to give you both a hug! Whew!
Thanks Sue for watching! Yes, she did rock it. It's funny - we think we're prepared because she practices driving the truck every year but we never thought to do so in the rain, in the dark, or in the dark and rain. Lesson learned. BTW, I'm feeling great - thanks for your thoughts.
Rich, so glad you are back to health. Cindy, you did great with the Luv Truck and keeping the Luv Sub in tip-top shape. Sad that part of our time together at Land Yacht Harbor was with you in the hospital, but we look forward to future time spent together. Love you guys.
Thanks so much guys! We'll certainly look forward to spending some time together in 2024. We owe you a few rounds of Sushi Go!
So glad you are back Rich! I will say Cindy I believe you won the defrost bet! Safe travels
Thanks Cotton Tales! I'll give her the Win on that one. We let that go waaay too long...
Ive always been neurotic about this especially on boat trips...1st mate has to know how to maneuver, turn on sync, and follow the chart plotter, use the radio, etc. Glad you're better. I got hit with influenza "A" before Christmas and it sucked big time. No pneumonia (despite 45 yrs of smoking) but it took 3 weeks until I felt 100%. My doc said flu shot was formulated to "B variants" this year and would not have helped for the type "A'. Funny little germs these viruses. Great job Cindy, I am sure you were stressed, but ya did great. And yes fellow adventurers are the best!
Thanks for watching Blue Star Industrial! You so right about knowing the systems. Our failure was that we always did our "training" in perfect weather. Thus the issue with lights, wipers, etc. Still, I agree with you - C did great!
Great to see you back on your feet!
Thanks for watching and thinking of me. Feeling great now!
Happy you are back in action.Cindy did great
Thanks for watching and you are absolutely correct - C did great!
Good job Cindy, welcome back Rich.
Thanks for watching and thinking of me. You are correct - C did a great job!
Wow! Take care of yourselves!
I ended up doing my first hospital stay ever last August. It was a week with four trips to the OR under anesthesia. It was a blood infection in my leg. Anyway, one of the lessons learned is to have a long phone charing cable (or two), because a cell phone and ipad are your only connections to the outside world. This includes staying in touch with family, banking, email, etc.
Thanks for watching and we hope all is well now. A long charging cord is a great idea. Whenever C showed up the first thing I gave her was my phone to get its charge. We also keep a few "fuel rods" and it would have been good if I had one as a backup. Safe travels.
Sounds like a crash course in solo RVing along with the added stress of having your partner in the hospital. Looks like you did a great job managing it though ❤. Glad you’re feeling better Rich. Great video.
Thanks for watching and the super nice comment. Cindy did great! It was stressful but like many things, we came out all the better. Thanks for thinking of me.
Gosh, what a learning experience, glad Rich is all good now!! This definitely makes me what to learn how to do a few more things on the AS!! Good job, Cindy!!
Thanks for watching! Yes, it was an eye opening experience for us as well. We like to think we're super experienced after 21 years but then something like this happens and you realize how much you do not know...
Cindy! Great job!
Rich... so glad you are better. It looked like you lost 20 pounds. No worries, Cindy's great cooking will have you back to normal in no time!
Thanks Denise! I'll have you know that I was an excellent patient. I hopefully made the nurses laugh and never complained. The weight probably came off because they never took my wine order for dinner very seriously...
@@LuvSubbin hysterical!
Glad Rich is doing better!
My wife broke her ankle in Acadia National Park in September, requiring emergency surgery in Bar Harbor.
We were faced with no weight bearing on her ankle, a walker, and climbing in & out of the F150 & Basecamp 20x.
I improvised some leveling blocks to aid in climbing in & out of the truck.
We made the two day drive home safely but it was stressful on both of us.
Regarding the headlights on the F150, it took me a while to master them on our 2021 Powerboost. I leave them on automatic now 😀
I too struggle to park it.
We fled western NY and are at Sebastian Inlet State Park right now.
Enjoy your travels!
Thanks for watching! Bummer about Acadia but using leveling blocks to help get in and out of your vehicles was a Varsity Level MacGyver Move! We've made it back to Vermont so Sebastian Inlet sounds pretty good to us right now...
Glad you’re ok.
Thanks for watching and thinking of me!
Rich you looked weak as water when you were released from the hospital ! Take care !!!!
Thanks for watching! I think I was just happy to be discharged and heading back to the Sub. Feeling much better now.
Glad your back in good health Rich! Thanks to you and Cindy for the tips. I'll need to train Nancy on the dump process.
Thanks for watching! Yes, dumping is something I never, ever thought she would have to do. But C did great in all aspects of solo RV'ing...
Rich - glad you are doing better, out of the Hospital and back home. We can totally relate to everything you both are going through. Diane has been hospitalized for the past three weeks here in San Diego. It’s really hard going through this a way from home, not knowing what will happen next. Happy to know yours had a goos out come. BTW - Defrosting the refrigerator is the last thing on my mind as my partner is in the hospital.
Hi Randy. Wow. We will be keeping Diane in our thoughts. Hopefully she will be back up and in the Airstream in no time. But you are right - it can be very difficult going through all the craziness of health issues while away from home. I'm sure even Zephyr and Monty are going crazy. Again, please say "Hello" to Diane and let her know we're thinking of her.
Rich, I'm glad you are feeling better and out of the hospital. Great job Cindy on solo camping and driving. Your video hit a tender spot for me since I'm solo RVing with my 87 pound pup. I'd have to find someplace for him to stay before going into the hospital and that might be a challenge.
Thanks for watching! The thing is - events like this are seldom planned. I went in to the hospital just wanting a prescription cough medicine and ended up there six nights! It's good to have an emergency plan...
Happy to see you've recovered Rich. These are definitely things we need to address as well--my husband and I have talked about it, but I've been a bit of a coward to tow. Guess I gotta get it together. Great topic and great tips!
Thanks for watching! Cindy tows once per year and we even practiced backing into a campsite earlier in the year - that was great for both of us.
Glad you have recovered. Six days, now a days, is a long stay in a hospital. You were seriously sick. After joint replacement I went home six hours after I entered the hospital.
We can relate to having a medical issue and trying to figure out what to do. My husband spent 12 hours in the ER, Urgent Care wouldn't take him, in Atlanta, GA. Eight hours waiting to see a doctor in the waiting room and then in a small room by himself. What we learned from that experience, if you have a bit of time, is to find out the wait times of the ER at various hospitals. Just do a quick Google search. We ended up at a facility with the longer than average wait times. Of course, a serious emergency, call an ambulance and you might move to the front of the line versus a walk in. We cut our trip short by a week and he got the additional care he needed at home with little wait time.
Thanks for watching and the helpful tips on wait times. The doctor said that if I had not regularly gotten my flu shot that this could have killed me. I'm glad it didn't because we have much more Airstreaming in our systems!
EGads. Yes you have a lot of living to do
Hi Rich and Cindy! Did you play cards in the hospital? What a learning experience this became. We are so glad that you recovered so nicely from this health scare. Bet you’re happy to be back in Vermont, be careful in the snow. We really enjoyed seeing you both in Tampa. ❤
Thanks so much! Yes, we played our favorite card game - it's called "Squirrels". I'm feeling great even though I would prefer Florida to snow right about now... We had a great time at the brewery!
Thanks for sharing your story. Glad all is well. You looked fully recovered at the RV show. I need to know how everyone else knew about this except us! Wanderlocal told us about you when we saw them a few days earlier! I can’t imagine going from Florida weather to Vermont snow!
Hi guys! We posted on our Community Page which you should get notifications for. Sorry you missed it. I probably should have done a FB post as well. My blood must have thinned the short time we were down south as I have not been warm since we got back home.
Rich, glad you're better and suffering no ill affects. Cindy, Good Job!
Thanks for watching and the nice comment! I'm feeling much better.
Moving Forward Adventures has said the same thing. Beyond the Wheel podcasts sometimes does an after action safety brief from recent RV mishaps and tools and actions to minimize risk.
Thanks for watching and that's a great idea. I watch a sailing channel called Sailing Ruby Rose. They just had an episode where they dragged their anchor for over a mile out to sea. His After Action Brief was excellent and one of those things that I hope many more people watch.
@@LuvSubbin I'm going to watch that now.
I am glad you are feeling better Rich! That stuff is no fun at all. Cindy you did great! My Cindy drives our 350 Dually often just for cases like this.
Thanks for watching and I am indeed feeling better. It's great that your Cindy can drive an F-350 dually. It's one of the reasons that we got the 150. My Cindy just felt entirely uncomfortable in the 250 (and our Airstream is pretty small). Safe travels!
@@LuvSubbin Thanks! I hope we see you on the road in the future. We will miss the next national rally, so it may be the next one. Take care!
Omg best wishes get better Rich. From #Escapepod Tampa originally from your neck of the woods.
Thanks guys for watching and thinking of me. It was a rough few days but we're back up in Vermont feeling pretty good (except for the cold outside).
I had flu and pneumonia at the same time once as well, it was worse than gambling with a Sicilian.
A very true statement! The worst part was that I went into the Emergency room in my crab shorts. I would have garnered much more respect with the flamingo shorts...
Glad you are getting better, good info. Our goal is to get my wife towing this year.
Hi Campfirerob and thanks for watching! Cindy tows once per year to keep her comfortable. This year we even had "backing into the campsite" training which was good for both of us. Safe travels.
WOW guys! 😮 What an ordeal! Glad to hear you’re up and running! Looks like you both survived although it looks like Rich lost a little weight in the process. Look forward to seeing you back on the road!
Thanks for watching and thinking of me. Though the hospital did a passing job with their meal service, not eating Cindy's cooking was probably a major reason behind the weight loss.