Monday, August 16, 2010

First the good news...


Lots of good things are going on with me lately, along with one rather nasty one. Today I finished the August issue of the Internet Review of Books. Lots of people have a hand in it, of course, but I actually put the web page up on the 15th of every month. Check it out! You'll like it.

More good news is that I'll be publishing chapbooks for the El Paso Writers' League and Mesilla Valley Writers this week. They're lots of work and fun, collaborating with friends to get the jobs completed. They'll both be published through Amazon's CreateSpace. More about them later this week.

And finally, When Pigs Fly has received a dandy new review on Amazon.

Coachmen Santara
2009-2010
R.I.P.

Now the bad—cringe along with me, please—our Coachmen RV has bitten the dust, declared both unusable and unfixable by Camping World. The issue, we're told, is frame fatigue, meaning we could lose the entire back end of the vehicle—it could break off and kill someone—if we continue to use it. When we bought the vehicle it had 4,000 miles on it, and we have added another 16,000, which hardly should be enough to wear it out. There is a lot more detail, but we're going to Camping World tomorrow to remove our belongings from it, and then we're calling our insurance company. It's very distressing, because we love RV travel.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

bummer about the RV. I was in the financing business foe over ten years and miss it very much. Props on the good Amazon review. Its always a good feeling to read it.

Stephen Tremp

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

One year of travel should not have done it! Those things should last for years.
And you review books, too? I didn't know that.

Cindy said...

So sorry about your camper, Bob. I enjoy your travel photos and hope this doesn't mean the end of them!