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OC,SH ALERT:
This is the website’s 4,100th post!

…& welcome to the newest theme: “Road Trips & Working”! I created this to chronicle my journeys this year (& hopefully beyond).

I’ve always dreamed of having a job where I can road trip across the country while working, partly because my home IS the road. When I lost my last full-time job 02/2012 just months after my 11/11/2011 open heart surgery, I thought my yearly road trips (which I’d driven 2002-2011) were done. When that no-job time of my life stretched to nearly 4 years, I didn’t think I’d be able to road trip again. Then, I started working part-time as an independent contractor for a home appraiser as his Office Manager, 12/09/2015; you can see my resume via THIS LINK HERE. In the year that followed, I thoroughly enjoyed my job & even discussed the possibility of working remotely. Discussions got more numerous 12/2016, before somewhat fading away 01/2017. Uncertain of whether or not he had changed his mind, I finally asked him directly, letting him know that I’m OK with whatever he wanted, but if I wasn’t going to be on the road, then I was trying to sell the wrong car. A week or so later, I tested the 1st program for working remotely … it failed miserably. My boss got another remote program, & it has worked quite well since mid 02/2017.

So NOW, it’s time to test it further. Starting today, Sunday, 02/26/2017, I’m “going home”. I drive my 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis [with side window deflectors newly installed] tonight to Dixon IL. I will work Monday AM, visit friends in the area in the afternoon, & then be in Okemos MI with friends Tuesday to Friday, 03/03/2017, when I will head back to IL.
I’ve had a nasty cough (seems to be subsiding) & a severe inner-outer ear infection (still can’t hear out of my right ear), so I have to stay in IL until at least 03/07/2017, when I have an afternoon follow-up with the PCP. If all goes well, I will leave 03/08/2017 for the southwest US, planning to drive some parts of Route 66 & stop to see friends in these areas: Dallas TX, Austin TX, Phoenix AZ, Kingman AZ, Los Lunas NM & Oklahoma City OK. I will return to IL around 03/24/2017 for a cousin’s 90th birthday party, 03/25/2017; I also have to return monthly for at least a week (sometimes longer due to prior plans) to refill medical prescriptions, etc.

Other initial 3 drafted road trips:

* April, potentially 04/04-09/2017 & 04/17/2017-05/02/2017 … southeast US, with stops in Metropolis IL, Memphis TN, Nashville TN, Atlanta GA, Richmond VA, Darlington SC, Tampa FL. [also: Dixie Highway]

* May, potentially 05/12-31/2017 … northwest US, with stops in Denison IA, Denver CO, Medford OR, Grants Pass OR, (then across to) Minneapolis MN, Slinger WI. [also: Lincoln Highway, US Route 6]

* June, potentially 06/09-30/2017 … northeast US, with stops in Detroit MI, PA, Little Rock Hill NJ, Boston MA, northern VA. [also: Lincoln Highway, US Route 6]

I will rotate areas as the year continues….