Well, what can we say other than we are sorry. We are sorry we have been out of touch for the past few years and this post is long, long, overdue.

We are sorry to all of our subscribers who have been wondering what had happened to us and are also thankful for those who had reached out. Well, here is the long, way past overdue, post. As you can see, we are all currently fine. So we will just start there with Loki running into the sunset of our new home. (So fitting.)

So First… David is typing this in the “Third Person” perspective. As many of you know, David suffers from severe depression and very high anxiety which started when he had a stroke at the age of 40. (I guess we should not say we are all “fine” then so to speak. LOL) The downside is that medications, like 19 different ones, have not helped thus far. However on a positive side, that lead us to “Loki”, now 7’ish years ago. (Wow, time really does fly.) 

However, during this 7’ish years of time, David also unfortunately was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer back in June 2020 at the age of 55. The saving grace, in this particular case, was that we were still full-timing in the coach and because of that we were able to travel to MD Anderson in Houston Texas which happens to be one of the best cancer treatment places in the world. David received treatment in February 2021, choosing to use SBRT, Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy. You can read more about his adventures in this over a three blog post series. POST ONE – POST TWO – POST THREE. Not to mention…MD Anderson actually did a write up on us!  Here is the link to it on MD Anderson’s site…Click Here.  (As far as his cancer, things are looking good at this point. So…Yippee!)

In any case…Yes, “sh*t happens” and sometimes it will make you make changes in your life. In our case, sadly, David’s depression has gotten worse and thus we decided some changes might be in order. The biggest being that we bought an actual home (SHOCKER I Know!). Based on this, and the above mentioned, we have not posted RV/Motorcoach stuff, or anything, in a long, loooooong, time. (Again as you surely may know.)

Based on the above, David sadly also lost all interest in flying his drone or even making new posts to the site. As some of you may know, these were things he very much enjoyed doing… making videos in hopes to helping other RV’ers. Even flying Park Areas or “areas of interest”, or even making Music Videos when he played music with different bands has sadly all has more or less fellen away.  As such, nothing really to post to the blog or our YouTube. But we “hope” this will change.

But yes…We now live in the clouds 1,900 feet up in the Cumberland Plateau’s of Tennessee over looking the valley of “Icy Cove“.  We have 12 acres of land in a forest that is very private. The top photo to the left was taken from our back deck overlooking the Cumberland Plateau and the bottom one from our front porch.  So yes, we actually live in the forest! After many years of traveling we knew what we liked…that being, Quiet, Pieceful, Privacy, and a VIEW!  This gives us all.  Also we very much love watching the weather, and  this view surely gives us that!

So the long and short of it, David has not been in the “mental mood” or state of mind to continue to do RV Coach or Techie videos at all.  The motivation is gone for the most part even though we have tried a lot of different drugs.

As such, we have not posted anything in a long, long. time.  Blog post or YouTube video wise.

So what’s left to say?  Well not too much seeing we could talk about the new home, but who cares to hear about that, as you were here for RV/Motorcoach related items.

So I guess we will just say, we are still alive.  We still are considering what to do.  We are still looking at and trying different things for David to try to get back to some sort of norm. 

Loki has been the best help, however that still hurts David as he can not work with Loki as he feels he should. Loki really needs to “work” to be happy and without David actualy looking to even go out, well, that then becomes an issue for Loki.  But again, we are working on it.

Mental illness is not fun.  Not for the person who has it or the people around that person that try to help.  Human or Animal.  But all three of us are still here and still trying to make the most of life.

We are going to try to do live YouTube videos to show our life in our new place and what we are doing, but not sure that would be of interest to most of our RV/Coach followers.  We will still be going to Southwoods RV Resort for summers, but not sure for how much longer. But even with that, not sure on doing videos or what-have-you on RV mod’s or fixes. (That likely will not continue.)

‘So for now…This is David and Brenda, and of course Loki, saying again….Sorry we have not been around.  We do miss doing all that we did with the RV/Motorcoach community.  From OOBerFest to just making videos, we truly miss being part of your world.

Of course Loki just loves looking over the property, “His domain” keeping the critters at bay.

SIDE NOTE: If you use Instagram, you can always subscribe to @lokibott where Loki makes one post every day.  So you can kind of keep up with us. hummm…Him. Loki speaks in dogie voice of course and can be quite funny. Also you can go way back in his post history to really see what’s been happening. :)

 

 

IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: David wrote this in the “third person” and is true to what was written. Depression and Anxiety surely…well…SUCKS!  It is not something wished on anyone but way to many people have it now based on world events. Many suffer from it…but more so for people like David who has been through a few life altering events.

We hope to start doing videos from the home where we can do live Q&A’s about our time living in an RV or Motorcoach in order to help others. We also hope to bring in Michael Kidd, a great friend, on some videos for Q&A’s as he and his wife are still living in a coach.

 We love and thank you all for your support and understanding as to our long overdue post and video below. 

 

For Fun…Here is a video that sums life up for me, David, currently. That being “What’s Up?”  This was shot 4 years ago, with friends I greatly miss. This video was total improv and that is what makes it great to me.  We just “Had Fun” with what was in front of us. This is what life should be about. Friendship and just enjoyment. (Thanks Dave and Kevin for this memory.)

And here is a wonderful video we did not even know about until someone alerted us.  It was from an OOBerfest Event we orginized for our followers in 2019 in Quartzsite AZ!!!  Thank you “Ramblin Pam” for the special memories. It is finding something like this online that really made us feel that we have been such a help to the RV Community. We did quite a few of these over the years and it was great to not only meet followers, but to help them learn while at the OOBerfest event in Quartzsite, AZ.