This blog will keep you up to date on our travels and life events. IF YOU WANT TO SEE AN ENLARGEMENT OF ANY PICTURE (ESPECIALLY THE NARROW PANORAMAS!) JUST CLICK ON IT. BACK SPACE TO RETURN TO THE BLOG. Jeanne and Lee

Friday, June 18, 2010

LEE WRITES AND PUBLISHES A BOOK


They say you are busier after you retire. Lee thinks they are right!

The new book is about RV camping in public campgrounds and will be available around July 1, 2010. You can learn more as well as order the book at -

https://www.createspace.com/3459109

Public campgrounds are managed by and located on state, city, county or federal agency park lands. Being in a public park environment, campground sites tend to be among woods, spread out, and non-commercial. Because local, state or federal tax funds provide partial support for the parks, you will find that camping fees are often less than $19 a night. In addition, agencies will frequently give discounts (some up to 50%) to campers who are disabled, military, or seniors.

The individual campgrounds selected for this book will accommodate most RVs of all classes and sizes. They are reasonably convenient to an Interstate road. You will also find a list of specific campground features, phone numbers, websites and GPS coordinates. Detailed, turn-by-turn directions from the Interstate, are also included. Granted, not all camps are full service or full hook-up, but the mix of amenities, modest fees, and beautiful location make for a wonderful RVing experience. All the campgrounds have a source of potable water and restrooms. Most have showers and dump stations or sewers. Many have electricity. With very few exceptions, all are pet friendly.

A novel feature of the book is the inclusion of local 'Points of Interest.' If you're traveling in an area of the country new to you, a few suggestions of things to do or see, once your rig is setup, seemed like a good idea and will definitely add to your camping enjoyment.

Lee Zaborowski is a retired educator, both as a classroom teacher, and later an administrator in Adult and Continuing Education programs. Lee has authored before, this is his fourth book. He has also written for and published extensively in professional science and adult education journals. Lee and Jeanne have three children and four grandchildren.

Lee fell in love with the outdoors, as a youth during the 40s and 50s, during the then annual summer trips to a resort in northern Wisconsin. Since those days he's lugged canvas tents around Idaho to fly fish, and progressed to long bicycle touring/camping trips of 1,000 miles or more, all over the United States, carrying clothes, camping gear, tools, etc. in panniers on the bike. Adding up all those tent, bicycle and now RV trips would probably get you around 200,000 miles.

Since retiring, Lee and his wife Jeanne, with the two family cats, are on the road regularly, touring the States in their RV. Lee is a member of four RV clubs, including being the Newsletter Publisher for one of them. In addition he does 'RV Photography' Seminars. Both Lee and Jeanne enjoy photography. All the photographs in the book were take by one or the other of them.

CATERPILLAR RV CLUB RALLY IN AMARILLO, TEXAS







The first half of March, 2010 we traveled from home in Branson, MO to a motorhome rally in Amarillo, TX. This was a gathering of around 50 coaches, of various brands with Cat engines, which we have. We enjoyed 5 days with friends - some new, some people we have known for most of our RVing years. The rally was a mix of seminars, Club business, local activities, sightseeing, dinners and evening entertainment (cowboy singers, dancing and karaoke).

We are the Publications Editors for the Club (about 1,000 members) with responsibilities for two print Newsletters a year and a monthly eNewsletter. During the rally we both kept busy taking pictures . . . the role of Club photographers sort of fell on our shoulders. As a result we collect articles and edit them, then layout and produce the print and digital newsletters, as well as contribute almost all the photos. During the rally we assembled two daily 'eNews' emails with pictures, which were emailed to all Club members to keep them up-to-date on the rally.

Traveling to and from the rally our stopover was Lake Eufaula State Park in Oklahoma. We prefer staying at public campgrounds as opposed to for-profit camps - more space, non-commercial, less expensive, and really in the woods. At the rally we went to a dinner at a cattle ranch, where we saw horse races and could bet play money. It turns out Lee won the trophy for most play money won - bet on the alpha males. We also went to Palo Duro Canyon, which has some beautiful terrain. On our return home we sidetracked to Wichita Falls, TX to see our good friend and former neighbor Barbara Nemecek, who was the Business Dean at UW-River Falls when Lee was CE Dean.