{"id":337,"date":"2006-08-31T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T14:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=337"},"modified":"2006-08-31T10:34:13","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T14:34:13","slug":"working-on-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Working on the book"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been “partly cloudy” here (meaning frequent rain and hardly any sun, as I noted earlier), and I’ve had a job waiting for sunshine. The folks who distribute Birdy Bikes in the US<\/a> are going to take out an ad in Airstream Life magazine in the Fall and I promised I’d take a photo of the bikes next to our Airstream. <\/p>\n

\"Charlotte<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday the sun came out in the afternoon and Eleanor and I ran out to capture some photos. You may see one of them in the magazine (minus Eleanor’s hand, which you can spot at left in some of the photos). Eleanor was willing to “model” with the bikes but then she’d probably send me a bill. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Everyone is having fun except me and Eleanor. We are still trying to close up 1,001 loose ends with cars and other possessions. Emma and her grandparents went out to Pizza Putt last night, which is sort of a Chuckie Cheese with mini-golf — a major attraction for the sporting 6-year-old. I stayed behind and worked.<\/p>\n

I am working on a book project, in addition to the Fall magazine. As a result my life is 12-15 hours a day in front of the laptop … not exciting. I only mention this because I still often get comments from people that I don’t work and am on some sort of endless vacation. The book, when published later this fall, will help explain how working couples can do what we are doing. I think once people start to recognize that today’s technology makes it possible for many people to travel extensively before<\/em> retirement, that stigma of “you don’t do any work” will go away.<\/p>\n

Another setback on the car front: the Nissan dealer didn’t inspect the car when we had it in for the 30,000 mile service on Monday. So we brought it back yesterday to get the sticker, and discovered it can’t pass — the exhaust manifold is cracked! That’s an expensive job, fortunately under warranty. I’m wondering if we shouldn’t consider an extended warranty now, since our new-car warranty will run out in 6,000 miles.<\/p>\n

The dealer can’t get the replacement manifold this week, and we are leaving for Maine on Friday. It will have to get fixed when we return on the 12th. In the meantime, we are carrying a letter from the dealership which explains we have an appointment to get it fixed but couldn’t get the part before the inspection runs out. I am hoping we won’t need to use that letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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