Mary is no longer available for RV traveling, but we remain good friends.
Because we have 5,000+ postings, I’ve invited her to continue posting entries on this blog.
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I’m currently in my 24th year of full-time RVing and my lifestyle is changing, For more info click Here
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The motorhome is parked at Shady Acres RV Park in Yuma, Arizona. I may be here until March 4th.
Since my RVing life is changing (see above), I’m starting to re-visit previously visited places. So rather than constantly re-blogging past entries, I’ve decided to do something different.
The motorhome is parked at my cousin Bob’s and his wife Donna’s home at North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
Yesterday was a finally decent day. With a light cloud cover the high temperature was 72 degrees with 69% humidity. Still too humid for my liking.
Yesterday Bob, Donna, Mary and I drove the about five miles to New Bedford, Massachusetts to attend the 99th Annual Feast Of The Blessed Sacrament aka Portuguese Festival. We attended this event during our 2010 visit to this area and Mary enjoyed it so much, she insisted that we do it again. So we did! Here are some of the photos that I took…
As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…
First thing, we headed for the barbecue area where lots of folks were already at it…
Then Donna and Mary started on ours. The skewers are about seven feet long…
This monkey watched in amusement as Donna and Mary worked…
Finally, they are done and show off their handiwork…
Now over to the barbecue area…
To get the fixings off of the hot skewer, my cousin Bob inserted it on to a stainless steel V and pulled…
While Mary collected the fixings into containers…
Here’s my portion…
Time to eat…
This 19-year-old Portuguese girl serves up $8 (each cup $4) worth of Budweiser beer…
Mary prefers the dark craft beers. She calls my Miller lite that I drink “horse piss”. This photo captures her with her “horse piss”…
Donna and her sexy sunglasses…
Some feast goers wear traditional hats. Medeira is an island off of the coast of Portugal where many of the early New Bedford fishermen came from…
A very young Portuguese girl…
Another style of hat…
We shared this spicy bean dish…
Mary telling me how much fun she is having…
After our meal we wandered around a bit. None of us rode the rides…
I love photographing reflections…
Instead of dealing in cash to buy things, you buy a ticket for $1 each. A beer is four tickets…
I wandered through a nearby museum…
We arrived early at the entertainment area to have front row seats…
Mary enjoys her 3 ticket Madeira Wine. For that price for so little amount…I hope it was good…
A young Portuguese boy came by to light the candle at our table…
Finally the entertainment started…
I made some videos to give you a flavor of the entertainment. You can see them by clicking the below links…
Enjoying visiting with relatives and friends is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!
The red dot on the below map shows our approximate location in the State of Massachusetts. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…
TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! MARY WROTE A MANY GREAT BLOGS…SO WHENEVER SHE PUBLISHED A BLOG POSTING THE SAME DAY THAT I DID…YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ HER BLOG BY CLICKING THE BELOW LINK! DO IT NOW!
https://otrwjam.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/new-bedfords-portuguese-festa/
I hope you enjoyed the photos.
Forecast for today is sunny and 59 degrees.
Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures with low humidity most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein
“Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.” –James Madison
My current travel rig is a 2006 Fleetwood 26′ Class A Motorhome and a towed 1986 Ford Bronco II, Eddie Bauer Model. This photo was taken in the desert at Slab City near Niland, California…
On October 27, 2012, I created a two-minute video titled America The Beautiful. The music America The Beautiful is by Christopher W. French. The photos, which I randomly selected, are from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia (not shown in that order)…are mine. Yup, That’s me standing in front of the Post Office in Luckenbach, Texas…Y’all!
Click this link to start the video. Make sure you have your speakers turned on and go to full screen asap.
http://youtu.be/FfZUzEB4rM8
If you would like to see my YouTube videos, click this link… http://www.youtube.com/user/JimJ1579/videos
There are more than 600 photo albums in my Picasa Web Albums File. To gain access, you simply have to click this link… https://picasaweb.google.com/jimjrver
If you have not checked out my Ramblin Man’s Photos Blog, you can do so by clicking this link…http://ramblinmanphotos.wordpress.com/
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All original works copyrighted – Jim Jaillet -2019
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