Kit and Jerry Bertelsen
Welcome to the Bertelsen Web Site
:>) Living Our Dream! :>)
Our Goal is to keep this site very simple. We hope you visit it often and enjoy our journey. May the wind always be at your back.
Last Update:
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Where we are:
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144 Rainbow Dr. #4412
Livingston, TX 77399-1044
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Jerry's email:
jerry.bertelsen@hotmail.com
Kit's email
bertelsenk@gmail.com
Recent Posts:
07/23 Sun Time and Computers
07/22 A Long Drive to the Mailbox
07/21 Another Storm and Verizon Woes
07/20 A Tour of Western Horizon's White Oaks on the Lake 07/19 Some Rain and a Tour of the Resort
07/18 On the Road Again
07/17 Getting Ready to Leave
07/16 A Busy Day
07/15 Summer Produce and Big Brother
07/14 Taking Care of Business
07/13 Enjoying the Day
07/12 Heavy Rains
07/11 A Day With Friends
07/10 . . . And Another Day
07/09 Just Another Day
07/08 A Talk with Miller Insurance and Newmar Service
07/07 Attempting to Tie Up Loose Ends
07/06 A Busy Sunday
07/05 Visiting with Family
07/04 Happy 4th of July
07/03 Dental Emergency
07/02 Hanging Around the RV
07/01 Just Doing Our Thing 06/30 A Bad Guy - Good Guy Day 06/29 New Computer and Dinner with Family 06/28 Blog Readers to the Rescue
06/27 Service Work at Camping World 06/26 A Great Day With Friends and Family
06/25 Visits with Friends and Car Detailing
06/24 New Fire Extinguishers and Pressure Pro
06/23 Knocking Off the "To Do" List
06/22 Slow and Relaxed 06/21 Visits with Friends and a New Camera
06/20 A Trip to Paragon 06/19 We're Home in Martinsville 06/18 Early Start to the Hoosier State
06/17 Northeast Across Missouri
06/16 Saying So Long to Friends
06/15 Happy Father's Day 06/14 Great Seminars and Good Eats
06/13 Rally Day 3 06/12 Seminars and RV Fashion 06/11 Let the RV-Dreams Rally Begin
06/10 Another Show in Branson
06/09 Branson Show, Rain, and Meeting New Full-Timers
06/08 Finally, Branson
06/07 We Make it to Little Rock
06/06 Easy Travel Day
06/05 Fighting the Wind
06/04 On the Road Again...
06/03 We're Still Here 06/02 Preparing to move is Hard Work 06/01 Still Trying to Pack it Up
05/31 Countdown to the MOVE
05/30 Spelling Bee Winner from Indiana 05/29 Del Rio, Doc, and Birds
05/28 Just Another Fine Day 05/27 Eckersly Anniversary 05/26 A DAY of Remembrance
05/25 Race Day
05/24 Trying to Stay Cool 05/23 Nuf Said!
05/22 Another HOT one today! 05/21 Touring the Back Country
05/20 Del Rio Morning
05/19 Two Ways to Clean
05/18 Sorting and Packing
05/17 Happy Birthday to Kit 05/16 RV Roof Work 05/15 STILL Watching the Concrete Cure
05/14 Watching the Concrete Cure 05/13 It's Done! 5/12 Tennis
5/11 Happy Mother's Day 05/10 Working in the Sizzling 100's
05/09 Sooo HOT!
05/08 Dentist in Del Rio
05/07 The Price for Concrete
05/06 Nails in Del Rio 05/05 The Bird Nest Saga Continues
05/04 Clouds, Birds, and a Rain Shower
05/03 Another Peaceful Day
05/02 Home Sweet Home
05/01 Trip to San Antonio 04/30 A Bicycle Ride and Fajitas 04/29 Beautiful Day 04/28 Sunny and Much Warmer
04/27 Cool Temps Today 04/26 Golf Ball Sized Hail 
? 04/25 Fitness Trail is Complete 04/24 Prickly Pear Pics out in the Desert
04/23 No Tennis Today 04/22 Del Rio Times Two
04/21 The New Dryer Gets a Workout! 04/20 The Dryer Works! 04/19 Board Meeting, Finished Eyebrow, and Dinner with Friends
04/18 Tennis, New Refrigerator, and Moth Balls
04/17 Del Rio Dentist 04/16 Festival Meeting, Tennis, and Gardening 04/15 Enjoying the Day 04/14 Tennis, Trails, Cookout, and Movie 04/13 A Day at the Fort
04/12 San Antonio, Community Council, and Premiere Movies
04/11 Jerry goes to San Antonio 04/10 Lazy Day!
04/09 Del Rio, Tennis, and Sun Screens 04/08 Jerry Works on Screens
04/07 Kit Returns to School 04/06 Sunday Visits and Looking for Rocks
04/05 Breakfast, Birds, and Basketball 04/04 A Trip to Uvalde for Kit 04/03 Drizzle Today
04/02 The Golf Car Goes
04/01 A Full Day in Del Rio 03/31 Power Washing Concrete 03/30 The Eyebrow Work Continues 03/29 Work Begins on our Eyebrow
03/28 Return to Uvalde, TX
03/27 A Day of Ups and Downs
03/26 Searching for Thistle Seed 03/25 Breezy but NICE 03/24 Clearing Out the Shed
03/23 Celebrating Easter
03/22 Easy Day 03/21 The Hummers are HERE! 03/20 Great Sunshine & Assembling Patio Furniture 03/19 Mexico Trip for Kit & RV Inspection for Jerry
03/18 Ah! Breakfast at McDonald's
03/17 Happy St. Patrick's Day
03/16 Breezy
03/15 Board Meeting, Laundry, & Just Relaxing
03/14 ☼HOT☼ 03/13 A Quick Tour of Del Rio 03/12 We Remember the Alamo
03/11 Arrival of Good Friends
03/10 Rain 03/09 Spring Forward 03/08 More Fort Clark Days 03/07 Fort Clark Festival Day One
03/06 We're Back 03/02 We Journey Back to the Fort 03/01 Remembering the Cowboy 02/29 Spinnin' Yarns 02/28 We move to Alpine, TX for Cowboy Poetry 02/27 Big Bend One More Time 02/26 A Backcountry Dirt Road in Big Bend National Park 02/25 Big Bend Chisos Basin 02/24 We Move to Terlingua Through Big Bend National Park 02/23 Langtry and Marathon
02/22 We're Ready to Roll 02/21 It's Almost Done 02/20 Packing for Big Bend
02/19 Errands in Del Rio 02/18 President's Day Barbeque
02/17 Beautiful Day
02/16 February Board Meeting
02/15 It Works
02/14 Happy Valentine's Day
02/13 An Easy Day
02/12 Final Tax Touches
02/11 Carving and Taxes 02/10 A Day of Travel: 360 miles
02/09 Community Council
02/08 Uvalde and Theater Dinner
02/07 Kit Goes Back to School
02/06 Oh, the Aching Back!
02/05 Del Rio, then Uvalde
02/04 Spring Cleaning 02/03 A good Day With Good Friends 02/02 Finished as Day Laborers 02/01 Taking it Easy
01/31 Another day of Teaching
01/30 Not Much Going On 01/29 Windy Day
01/28 Reorganizing
01/27 Easy Sunday 01/26 Utility Shed Moved
01/25 Another W-O-R-K Day
01/24 An Apple for the Teacher
01/23 Go With the Flow
01/22 There is a Buster
01/21 MLK Day
01/20 Simple Sunday
01/19 January Board Meeting
01/18 Back to San Antonio 01/17 Tomberlin E-Merge
01/16 Everyone Outside 01/15 Closing on Unit 38 Property 01/14 We Get by with a Little Help From Our Friends.
01/13 You Win Some and You Lose Some
01/12 Community Council Meeting 01/11 We're Here!
01/10 Del Rio, TX
01/09 Proud New Owners 01/08 A Quick Trip to Uvalde
01/07 Nine Clean, Three to Go 01/06 Three Clean, Nine to Go 01/05 Walk by the Creek
01/04 Where is Buster?
01/03 Recycling
01/02 Fix it and Forget it 01/01 Happy New Year
July 
Monticello, IN
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Today was a day to appreciate in Indiana. We had cooler temps in the 80's with low humidity. That's rare in July for Indiana!
The blue skies and fair weather clouds beckoned Kit to the outside to read. We pulled out the lawn chairs and loungers from the bay. Then, Jerry put out the awning. We remarked that our awning had not been used since last year at about this time.
While Kit enjoyed the sun, Jerry worked on transferring files from his old laptop to the new HP laptop. Was that easy? Not! He still has decisions to make and files to move.
Kit put chicken in the slow cooker with Italian dressing. We added peas and carrots, a potato and new for us, "flax seed" dinner rolls to our menu. Yummy!
It was a live show for Big Brother tonight. Rodeo Steve is gone. Is anyone watching Showtime 2 Big Brother after Dark?
Life is G☺☺D!
Monticello, IN
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Today began with breakfast at McDonald's and some puzzle time. Joseph from Bank of America Uvalde called and solved all of Jerry's problems. Then we moved to the Laundromat. Kit used her washer in the RV yesterday, but she prefers to dry our clothes in a commercial dryer. She says she has less wrinkles and therefore less ironing (none.)
By 11:00 we were back at the RV and made the decision to drive back to Martinsville to pick up our mail. We have our mail sent to Livingston, TX, to the Escapees Mail Service. It's just a matter of a phone call or email to inform the service where to send our next package. The mail is sent out on Tuesday and we receive it on Friday. Last week, for some reason our mail was not where it was supposed to be on Friday. We were scheduled to be here in Monticello at Western Horizons. Yes, we could have extended our stay in Martinsville, but we chose not to. The 110 miles back to get our mail was a pleasant drive. It was the 110 mile return trip that seemed to go on forever. We arrived back at the coach around 5:00 p.m. That included a gas stop at the Flying J in Lebanon, IN, for $3.93/ gal.
Tonight was a Big Brother night for Kit. She talked to Betty Wright earlier in the evening comparing notes. (Hey this is serious stuff.) Jerry tried to work online with emails but because of a slow Verizon phone card, frustration won out. Posting this tonight was very slow.
Life is still G☺☺D!
Monticello, IN
Another Storm and Verizon Woes
Monday, July 21, 2008
We had another rain storm this morning with lots of wind and rain. Fortunately we were in the McDonald's at the time. We watched from the window while enjoying our biscuits and puzzle time.
When we returned to the RV we were without water. We had lost electric during the storm. Somehow the water pump that brings our water to the upper level did not reset when the electric came back on. It was well over 5 hours before water was restored.
We have lousy Verizon phone reception here. We can call out and receive calls, but we lose contact after about a minute into the conversation. Jerry went into Monticello and found good reception in the Wal-Mart parking lot. So, today he did his banking phone calls sitting in the car.
We found a great pizza place in town for dinner. "Monicals" specialized in a tortilla type thin crust -- our favorite. Jerry tried the personal size ground beef and cheese. Kit went with a personal veggie topped with pineapple and pepperoni. The dinner included small salads and a drink.
We're watching the weather for Texas and wondering what impact tropical-storm 'hurricane' "Dolly" will have on Brackettville. Guess we'll have to wait until tomorrow.
Life is G☺☺D!
Monticello, IN
A Tour of Western Horizon's White Oaks on the Lake
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Lightning, thunder, heavy downpour of rain -- it all came at 4:30 this morning. And, in less than fifteen minutes it was all out of here.
We visited the First United Methodist Church of Monticello this morning for the first service. The music (organ, piano, and a Middle School violinist) was especially enjoyable. From there, we picked up the Lafayette Sunday paper and headed to the "newest McDonald's in the World" for a crunchy breakfast. We spent an hour working the Sudoku puzzle and plowing through the newspaper.
We did find a neat story about some Purdue University students accompanying their professor to Beijing, China to work as media liaisons for the Olympic News Service. They are assigned to the cycling events at the Laoshan Velodrome, gathering quotes for the media. The group has been in China for two weeks training and becoming familiar with the area. We logged on to check out their blogs. It made for very interesting reading as they describe their experiences so far. You can log on at ( http://www.jconline.com ) the newspaper site and find the Beijing bloggers on the blue news line one click down the page, or you can simply click on the Beijing bloggers and hope it takes you to the site. It did today when we tried it.
As promised, we want to give you a tour of the lower area of this Western Horizon's Resort. White Oaks is on Lake Freeman, a recreational lake formed from the Tippecanoe River. The large clubhouse has a game room, adult lounge, exercise facility, laundry, and showers on the first floor.
Jerry found the ice cream parlor right away on the second level
There is a pizza parlor and coffee shop as well as a ballroom on this level too.
There are about forty full hook-up sites with 30 amp electric in the Village I
Several family cabins line the perimeter of the campsites.
We took a drive around to the west side of Lake Freeman to capture this shot of the Resort
Tonight was a Big Brother TV night. So, we know what Kit was doing. Jerry spent some time on our website adding to our "Favorite Web Sites."
Life is G☺☺D!
Monticello, IN
Some Rain and a Tour of the Resort
Saturday, July 19, 2008
We woke up to summer rain showers this morning and quickly decided to eat in. We were ready for our day once we had a bowl of Raisin Bran (for Jerry) and Cherrios (for Kit.)
Jerry spent some time backing up both laptops onto a 200 gig Maxtor hard drive. Kit defrosted the refrigerator and threw away a few hidden leftovers left way too long in the far recesses of the shelves.
By late morning the rains had subsided. We needed a couple of jugs of water so we headed into Wal-Mart. Now, you know it is nearly impossible for us to enter Wal-Mart and come out with only one item. Keeping true to form, we loaded the car with our purchases. Then, we stopped at Kroger to pick up a few veggies, fruits, and meats.
Later in the afternoon we took a walk around the grounds. We are on the upper level of the resort parked in a pull through with 50 amp electrical service.
Sewer hookups were added last November to this section making it so convenient and popular.
Behind us are the cabins used mostly on the weekends.
We walked out to the overlook and picnic area.
Lake Freeman is a desirable water spot for jet skis, sail boats, and pontoon boats.
This welcome sign is at the "cars only" entrance.
The main check in is just a quarter mile down the road. We use this access when leaving the Resort to run into Monticello, 4 miles north.
We like it here. Tomorrow we'll give you a tour of the lower level.
Life is G☺☺D!