Lily - History & Tour Pt 1

Hi folks! I've been slacking on getting posts up on this blog! Sorry. I just finished up my latest video. Wanted to get it up here for all to see!

I hope you enjoy it and it gets you interested in getting out and seeing the things around you!!

Belated HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

It was Trunk or Treat at the kids church last night. 3 hours of traffic! And they had close it down at 7pm....and had to turn away cars! Good Grief!!

Anyway, thought I'd share a couple of pics of their setup for it! They did a good job!

The chickens were a huge hit!

 Hope everyone had a great night!

Travels with Frog, Chapter 3

 Hi Folks, Still in West Virginia...on Cheat Mountain, in the Monongahela Nat'l Forest. This is Chapter 3 of my Travels with Frog "series".  

Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks for taking a break and looking at this beautiful country with me!

If you like what you see and hear consider becoming a supporter of The Trucking Frog by clicking the Patreon link an the left of this page and join us in our travels!

Have a great week/month/year!!

And as I always say....

Be Safe....

Travel Easy....

And.....

GO TO THE WOODS!!

C'ya!!

Frog    &  Abbie

🐸         🐶

Still in West Virginia!

 A quick update...and still in West Virginia!!  Love this country, especially the mountains, which is where I've basically been for the past 4 weeks. 

Currently in Elkins, WV doing laundry, "monthly restock" and taking care of a few errands! All it takes is for me to be in "the city" for over 36 hours and I really, once again, appreciate the mountains and the woods!! There is really just no peace in the cities! I don't care how quiet it gets at night...it is still noisy compared with the woods and mountains!

Had a great site on the Stonecoal Dispersed camp area. All sites had tables and most had a view of the Cheat River with easy access. Was a very pleasant stay!

Next moved up on top of Cheat Mountain, a very pretty area with great views of the surrounding mountains and valleys.

The views were just picture perfect...and the clouds were something else. I shot way too many cloud pics!!  LOL! There were a couple of days of rain, and the winds, at times, reminded me of the winds in New Mexico during windy season!

  I really enjoyed the stay on the top of the ridge and really enjoyed the weather! Especially the COOL temps!!

As I head back up to the mountains later today, I'll be headed towards a spot my friend Keith took me to...which I have named "The Panorama Site"!!!  It basically has a view that is way over 200 degrees across, with NO trees to hamper the valley views! And in about a week the colors, which are just now really coming out, will be close to their peak and I hope to get some awesome fall color shots from there!

 

Another thing seems to be in abundant supply are the bees and butterflies! They are just all around every day!  Not withstanding the fact that the goldenrod is BLOOMING all around the area. And I mean BLOOMING!!  But it has made for the chance to catch some good shots of the butterflies!

And then of course there are all the flowers that do all the hard work of attracting the butterflies!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard to get a really focused shot when the wind keeps blowing at 15+mph!

So thanks for checking in with The Frog! Be sure to check back...more pics and videos are on the way, to include a tour of Lily!

C'ya out here!!

Frog & Abbie

🐸      🐶

Travels with Frog, Chapter 2

 Hi Gang!

It's been too long, but here is Chapter 2 of Travels with Frog! I hope to get more timely with my updates! I've gotten an AT&T phone so that I will have cell service here in WVa. AT&T pretty well has this state locked up for cell service!!

Hope you enjoy the video!

 

I will soon be uploading a video on my van "Lily"...what I've done to and on and in her to be out here full-time on the road. As is my normal activity, I'm still looking for places off the beaten paths where you can slow down for a time and relax...and...hopefully get into the woods, and step back in time! 

Keep checking back and see what we come we find out here on the back roads of the U.S.A. 🐸🐶

Be Safe!

Travel Easy!

And...

Go to the Woods!!

 

 

Travels with Frog, Chapter 1 (video :-) )

 I have started a "video series"! 

Travels with Frog!

I hope you enjoy the video and coming chapters!! 

I have started my "travels 2021"...after an extended break to take care of Lily and to be sure she was ready for a LONG trip on the road! If all goes "according to my plans", I should be out here wandering around for the next 3-5 months before taking a break back in Alabama.

So stick around with us and see what all we can find out here in the great U.S.A!!

So remember.....

Be Safe, Travel Easy and.....

Go To The Woods!!!

 C'ya! 
 

Welcome to Long Garage

 Long Garage Video

Frog's Travels....Reloaded!!

 I'm reloading the video that I pulled off. I want no "monetization" off this video. So let's see if AI will still attack the video. 

Frog's Travels

 

There used to be a video here. But as you can tell I've pulled it down...actually, I've deleted my account from YouTube. 

A rather long story, but suffice it to say that I am quite pissed right now! When you can be challenged about using "copyrighted" music, have proof that it is not, that it is royalty free music that you have purchased a couple of decades in the past....but still are found to be in the wrong...but are given no choice except to either "mute", remove or "have a mark against your site".....I'm done with that.

I've been in this field too many years to put up with this kind of nonsense! I will try to continue to use this site for now. But I'm in the process of deciding (rather figuring out) what my next steps will be on this platform.

Suffice it to say that Google (or should I say "Alphabet" corporation) are not very high on my list of companies that I think are worried about "helping" the little guy to get along in this "social laced" world.

An 8 Year Progression

I just wanted to take a few minutes and share a quick little video of the "journey" that I have been going along on getting used to this "full-time off-grid" lifestyle that I have been aiming at for the past several years.

 

 I have come to the understanding that not a single one of us has all the answers to this lifestyle. It is different for each one of us...and if it wasn't it would be SO boring! And when the day comes when we think we have the answers, something will happen to show us that we DON'T have all the answers!

 

I hope you enjoy the next 4 minutes! I enjoyed making it and looking again at some of the places that my "houses" have taken me to!! 

 

 

 

CLASSICAL SOPRANO surprises audience with STAR TREK | Conductor Rainer H...

Funniest RELAXING MUSIC ever! - comedy classical music LIVE - Rainer Her...

Thunderstruck for Percussion Ensemble Alumnado PercuFest 2014 dirigido p...

Royal Marines Corps of Drums and Top Secret Drum Corps | The Bands of HM...

John Wayne Speaks to Americans of 2020

Star Spangled Banner As You've Never Heard It

Departure Draws Closer!

This has been a very successful stay in Alabama!  When I got here, Lily’s TLC list had around 26 items on it. It is now down to about 7! And the biggest of the items are done! So, in the next 2 or 3 weeks, I’ll just be doing the rest of the small items on the list. Repacking Lily & the 2-wheeled suitcase, restocking on a few things that I need to get before hitting the road, a spa day for Abbie … and starting to actually look at the route that I am going to start out on for the next 12-18 months of travel!

 

The two biggest things on the list that I had to do for Lily was first of all …. A NEW Radiator!

 

That was an endeavor that took a little while to get done, basically 2/3’s of a day! And to be able to get that done, the second item on the list, which was tied for first place, was to remove 80% of the AC system! I haven’t had AC in any of my motorhomes for the past 6+ years, and I’m not going to have it! Getting used to AC just makes it harder to deal with the heat of summer! Folks keep telling me “…the older you get the more you like the heat…”…. all I can say to that is …. Hell No!!  LOL!

 

The third thing that Cary helped me to accomplish was a new driver’s seat!! I found one at a Pick-N-Pull yard locally that came out of a Mitsubishi…and it is just grand!! Two seat bottom adjustments, lumbar adjustment, reclines and it feels like new!! And Cary can work miracles when it comes to figuring out how to mount things!! And feels good to have a nice seat. Only thing about Chevy vans is when I get close enough to be comfortable on the pedals, I feel like the steering wheel is under my chin! This seat is all the way up and is almost perfect for the steering wheel ... so a short piece of 2X2 and a few cable ties later, the pedals are the right spacing also!!!  LOL!

 

 

 

Lily now also has 5 windows with screens on them. It is much easier to have air flow through her to keep it more comfortable inside.

 

 

 

The roof is now completely painted with the elastomeric paint from rain gutter to rain gutter, from front to rear and side to side. It helps sooo much in keeping it cooler in Lily!

 

Don’t know if you have kept up with the “weather” out West…but they are in a world of hurt! The temps have been horrific and there are wildfires all over the Western states! Now it might be “hot” on the East side of the Mississippi River, but it is bearable.  So, when I head out of Alabama in a few weeks, I will be headed back to the Blue Ridge Parkway and I’m going to run it to the northern end. That’s what I was working on when Europa laid down on me last August! 469 miles later, at the “end” of the BRP you can continue on to the Shenandoah Valley on the Skyline Parkway. That’s an additional +\- 275 miles. At that point I will decide on the direction that I will head. And that decision all depends on the weather and the temperatures!

 

During this stay in Alabama I have made a couple of drives, short drives through the countryside, just to get out of the city for a day or two. And as usual, I do find nice spots and things stop and see and visit!

 

So, as I always say, take the time to get “away” for a day or two into the area around you. Don’t worry about a map or a GPS …. just go and see what you stumble across! I think you will surprise yourselves!

 

I hope to see you out there soon. Stay tuned…many things to see and do on the way!!