The assassination of Charlie Kirk

 I cried last night thinking about Charlie Kirk. Why you ask, he's just some guy who was as the left will scream and bray deserved death, you see, for the left anybody who doesn't tow their line deserves violence. This has become the new norm for the left and increasingly so for the Democrat party. Demonstrably so, I could post hundreds of videos proving this.

I digress, why did I cry, because Charlie was a man who debated college kids not because he wanted to dunk on them for not knowing what they were talking about, because some did pretty good. No, he debated them so both sides could learn from each other, the only time you saw him snarky was when the other person was being an asshole and I don't care who you are but you will get a bit snarky yourself at times, he was human after all.

I have watched him go from a guy who didn't finish college to starting a business to building it to over 300 employees, helping Trump win the 2016 and 2024 elections by bringing young minds into Conservatism with knowledge and patience. He was the literal opposite of the left in every single way and he was a massive reason I believe in being a Conservative.

He was a kind man, 31, had a wife and two children and worked constantly, I mean the man took no breaks. He was absolutely none of the these things the left has labeled him and he was assassinated because the leaders of the lunatic left knew what he brought to the table, they watched it unfold for over 10 years from the time he was in High School until he was assassinated yesterday.

He was everything I wish I could have been, I don't mean I wanted to be a guy who travelled and debated college kids, I mean his character, he wasn't ever mean, his knowledge about history was at a level I have rarely seen, no matter what subject a college student brought up he dealt with them by being nice and always allowed them to talk and make their point. When he didn't know something he thanked them and explained he'll do the research and he'll be better able to answer in the future.

If you honestly watch any of his videos you can see how good he was. He could remember everything, his intellect was far above most people but he never rubbed that in your face.

The leadership of the left knew this and for them, a 31 year old Charlie Kirk was formidable, they knew in the future he would be the guy they had to deal with as he became more and more involved with politics. He has that capability to sway people by using knowledge and patience to bring people to the Conservative side and that made him extremely dangerous.

As we have seen throughout history a person who is dangerous to your ideology often is assassinated or they will attempt to assassinate them. Sadly they got somebody with the skills to hit him from 200 or more yards away, unlike the idiot they hired to go after Trump, this guy knew his business and did the job spot on.

I think they as usual missed the point, if they thought he was dangerous alive the impact assassinating him could have the impact on a massive scale of bringing Zoomers and others into the fold.

Also demonstrably, conservatives don't lower themselves to being violent, when they protest they do so organizationally, they clean up after themselves, the don't go into peoples faces, punch them, spit on them. they don't burn buildings, attack cops and I could list a lot more that separate liberals from conservatives.

Are there bad conservatives, yes, there are extremists on every side but by and large we aren't violent except when sent off to war. If conservatives become the same kind of violent that an insane amount of liberals have become, it will be a bloodbath of epic proportions and this too is a possibility the leadership who perpetrated this assassination hoped for.

Charlie wouldn't want that EVER, I don't want that, no good conservative wants that but each year the lunatic left pushes and pushes harder and harder and there will be a point people say enough and as I stated, the left if there are any smart followers left in that side better hope it doesn't happen.

Democrats who openly call for the left to get into peoples faces and advocate for violence are a massive part of why this shit is happening. Watching the MSM react to this assassination went exactly as expected, it was disgusting and not worth delving into, like I said, expected and may they rot in hell for it.

There are people I want to emulate, Mike Rowe, Charlie Kirk and so many others because they are intelligent, kind, they know their history and they speak with eloquence and tact, I'm more of a hammer seeking to learn and at 62 I have also learned I don't have the intellect to be like them and I understand that but as long as I try and I learn I can be a better person, I believe that people like them make people better, I believe my wife makes me a better man and I try to deserve it.

I cried because people like Charlie are a very rare breed and thankfully I am smart enough to realize this and I hope the impact of his death will not lead to more death or violence but that people take what he was trying to teach, that people that don't agree politically can talk and learn from each other, maybe even change the others mind in a meaningful way.

I have young family members that make me feel that this is possible, nephews and nieces who are starting families and are awesome dads and moms so I believe that the future isn't going to be as bleak as the left wants to make it.

Wow this ran long, if you didn't know who Charlie Kirk was, doing research on him now will result in the actual disdain and hate the MSM and other leftist media has for him, maybe wait until this settles down, Google results don't show the good so you'll need to filter out the agenda driven drivel and if interested dig deeper, I think you'll come to the same conclusions about him as I have.

EOM.

Update on Odysseus, The 2012 Tiffin Allegro Breeze 32BR

 It's been a tad over 1 years since we bought Odysseus. It's been a great RV so far, we have had a few issues but nothing that prevented us from using it except for when it was in service getting things cared for. Considering our track record we were hoping for the best but preparing for the worst.

We had no issues from July 12th last year when we pickup up the rig all the way until the end of the season in October except for some strange battery charging issues. 

We were able to get indoor storage which is incredible! While in storage it was plugged in so batteries stayed fully charged. In the Spring we picked up the rig and got ready for our first trip and we noticed some strange issues with how the rig charged the house batteries while driving, very randomly it just wouldn't. 

We dropped it off for service so all oil's, fluids and filters could be changed and also did chassis lube and 6 brand new tires and then we found out the previous owner or a shop broke the genny drain plug and then poorly drilled a new one that was crooked and leaky. So they ordered a new oil pan which out of pocket to replace was about $2,400.00 which definitely hurt since this was missed by both inspections we had performed. 😶

It took 3 times in service for them to find out what was causing the charging issues but they at least found it! A charger solenoid was defective and likely the reason why the previous owner had similar random issues during his ownership. Wholesale Warranties only covered 60% of this repair which I'm going to send back as we have full coverage and they denied the proper amount of time to troubleshoot to be covered, frigging insane.

Anyway, all issues we had have been resolved and we are using the rig as often as possible. 😊

July 4th 2025

We Joined The FMCA

 It's been 10 years since we were members, we'll see how well they stack up in 2024 now that they allow towable's in to bolster membership. 

I can post but not comment, thanks Blogger

Either something is messed up with my Google account or who knows what but once again I am unable to comment outside of my own blog. Use Incognito or Inprivate clear cache etc... NADA so I can't comment on my favorite blogs... 😣

Say Bye Bye to the Flair 29T and hello to the Tiffin Allegro Breeze 32BR

 We took the Flair out a few times this Spring only to have to deal with water systems issues and black tank problems. I was able to get them resolved but we didn't want to deal with continuous issues and the bathroom size was really bothering both of us. We had made a mistake buying this Fleetwood, it's a beautiful RV but being F53 rides like a UPS truck and you take a beating when going for more than 30 minutes at a time. Ronda got to hating the bathroom, I was getting there, we could figure no way to improve the situation, the RV simply had no space to make adjustments and improvements to the ride would have cost way too much. The difference between ride quality compared to our old Endeavor was also stark but the Endeavor did weigh about 10k more than the Flair, calls to chassis companies ended with it's not worth it on a 29ft Class A.

So a month ago we saw a Tiffin Allegro Breeze 32BR diesel pusher that is 33.8ft long and has dual opposing slides and a huge bathroom. It's also on air and has 600ftlbs of torque and has an Allison 6spd transmission and a compound dual turbo engine that should average 14 to 15 mpg instead of 5 to 7 in the gasser. 

Ronda has named the rig Odysseus! We picked it up on Thursday 7/11/24 and took it to Paul Wolff and like Sept last year, our first time out had an epic amount of rain fall, I mean this rain was at an epic amount and lasted the better part of a day. If the rig had leaks, we would have found them Saturday!! 

So far so good, we enjoyed driving it home, the air ride is incredible and the bathroom/shower is incredible. I'll post more pictures when we have the inside stuff put away. 

Saying Goodbye To Blackhawk Valley Campground

 We said goodbye to our favorite campground yesterday. We found Blackhawk Valley Campground as a place to stay the weekend 09/30/2011 - 10/02/2011 when Ronda's dad was in the hospital. We had never heard of it prior to this weekend so we were pretty blown away when we walked around the campground for the first time, it was huge, clean and friendly!

We were on site # 105 and the campground was getting ready for their annual Halloween celebration. Why does it feel like this was so long ago? I guess because so much has changed, so many have passed since this day, all of our lives have changed a lot since then and now big changes are happening again.

After this trip we decided to make it one of our frequent weekend getaways and in 2012, towards the end of the season we decided to look into getting a permanent site and we bounced from site to site until we ended up at site # 131.

June 2nd of 2012 we stayed in site # 83 and Ronda ordered the bucket load of wood, not the milk crate so the owner, Mark Springer drove over the bucket load and I asked him who that was for and he said you. The picture of wood in this post is the day after I burned wood most of the night. It took the rest of the day to burn the rest of it.

I included the site that had a train track set up every year we were there, the kids loved going by there and checking it out. Today it's gone.

On June 3rd 2012 we pulled the trigger on a permanent site and the site dance began! So site #84 it is, wait, no back to #83 and then back to #84... we were offered site #79 but that was on Packer Drive... yeah nope, couldn't do it. The next weekend Mark had done some work to site #129 so we moved there...

The last weekend of June 2012 for 9 days I decided to vacation in the rig. It was an average of 105 to 112 that week. I used comforters to block the windows so the AC could try and keep up. The site was 30 amp so we couldn't run both AC units and some guy in a rig with 3 AC units kept blowing the power out, drove Mark crazy.

Later in the season site #85 became available, starting the next year site 145 or 86 would be available. Because of the size of site #86 and no neighbor on the passenger side we took it!

Fast forward to April 21 2013 and we are now in site #86 and suddenly I get a call from Mark saying you need to get out here. The storm is flooding the Kishwaukee river and the water is getting into the campground fast. Long story short I got there in time to get the rig moved to higher ground. For some reason moving to a different site seemed like a good idea after spending the better part of a week cleaning up after the flood.

Then site #131 became available. It was a large site but had a problem and that problem is what was keeping the premium spot open. Who ever chooses this lot has to buy the shed and deck, we talked it over and bought them and proceeded to move in and we were there from 2013 until 2023! Man how that time just flew by.

We began working in the store during the 2014 season and continued until this year. We decided at the end of 2022 we were going to try and get back onto the road so we could visit places but we also decided to work the store one more season and then give notice we would be out next year. In August we found out that the campground had been sold to a resort which worked out for us time wise but what about the rest of the folks who have been here, heck some for over 30 years?

In the end change happens, for everybody good or bad. We hope everybody finds a place that they can make memories at and for us this is a new chapter as well. We traded in the Montana for a new to us Class A and next season we will start searching for new places to visit, Spring can't get here soon enough.

We said goodbye to our favorite campground yesterday. We found Blackhawk Valley Campground as a place to stay the weekend 09/30/2011 - 10/02/2011 when Ronda's dad was in the hospital. We had never heard of it prior to this weekend so we were pretty blown away when we walked around the campground for the first time, it was huge, clean and friendly!

We were on site # 105 and the campground was getting ready for their annual Halloween celebration. Why does it feel like this was so long ago? I guess because so much has changed, so many have passed since this day, all of our lives have changed a lot since then and now big changes are happening again.

After this trip we decided to make it one of our frequent weekend getaways and in 2012, towards the end of the season we decided to look into getting a permanent site and we bounced from site to site until we ended up at site # 131.

June 2nd of 2012 we stayed in site # 83 and Ronda ordered the bucket load of wood, not the milk crate so the owner, Mark Springer drove over the bucket load and I asked him who that was for and he said you. The picture of wood in this post is the day after I burned wood most of the night. It took the rest of the day to burn the rest of it.

I included the site that had a train track set up every year we were there, the kids loved going by there and checking it out. Today it's gone.

On June 3rd 2012 we pulled the trigger on a permanent site and the site dance began! So site #84 it is, wait, no back to #83 and then back to #84... we were offered site #79 but that was on Packer Drive... yeah nope, couldn't do it. The next weekend Mark had done some work to site #129 so we moved there...

The last weekend of June 2012 for 9 days I decided to vacation in the rig. It was an average of 105 to 112 that week. I used comforters to block the windows so the AC could try and keep up. The site was 30 amp so we couldn't run both AC units and some guy in a rig with 3 AC units kept blowing the power out, drove Mark crazy.

Later in the season site #85 became available, starting the next year site 145 or 86 would be available. Because of the size of site #86 and no neighbor on the passenger side we took it!

Fast forward to April 21 2013 and we are now in site #86 and suddenly I get a call from Mark saying you need to get out here. The storm is flooding the Kishwaukee river and the water is getting into the campground fast. Long story short I got there in time to get the rig moved to higher ground. For some reason moving to a different site seemed like a good idea after spending the better part of a week cleaning up after the flood.

Then site #131 became available. It was a large site but had a problem and that problem is what was keeping the premium spot open. Who ever chooses this lot has to buy the shed and deck, we talked it over and bought them and proceeded to move in and we were there from 2013 until 2023! Man how that time just flew by.

We began working in the store during the 2014 season and continued until this year. We decided at the end of 2022 we were going to try and get back onto the road so we could visit places but we also decided to work the store one more season and then give notice we would be out next year. In August we found out that the campground had been sold to a resort which worked out for us time wise but what about the rest of the folks who have been here, heck some for over 30 years?

In the end change happens, for everybody good or bad. We hope everybody finds a place that they can make memories at and for us this is a new chapter as well. We traded in the Montana for a new to us Class A and next season we will start searching for new places to visit, Spring can't get here soon enough.