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Tksoard

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 06:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
16 DAYS!!! HOOO HOOOO!!!!

Neko

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 08:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh dear.
We have a countdown for Tess' roadtrip?
Where are you going?
I think I might have missed something..

Tksoard

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 09:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Geez, Neko!! Have you been on a "brain-trip"???

Neko

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 09:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think I might have been...
Where's she going?

Tksoard

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 09:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
All over, but the most important is Buffalo Valley Tennessee!! (actually Gordonsville's McDonalds)

Donut

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 10:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
where can i buy a copy of the album Tess's TVClubhouse Tour?

Tksoard

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 10:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe at your local Friendly Tess's Boutique Shop and Travel Agency.

Tess

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 12:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG!!!! I'm leaving in 16 days??? eeeeeeeeek!!! I have to think about packing. First we have company coming in from out of town in 2 hours!! yikes!! And all of our new furniture is arriving WAY ahead of schedule so there are boxes EVERYWHERE!!!!!

Hey, TK. Do you realize that by the end of this trip I will have met 5 more TVCH friends in person making my total 10???? How cool is that?? By the end of the summer, I will have met a total of at LEAST 14 of my TVCH friends. I have to be the luckiest person I know. :)

Tess flies around in a panic thinking maybe the Road Trip should start today!!!!

tess

Tksoard

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 02:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Tess!! That's great!! What are you going to do with all those friends??? I've met one (hi Patsy) and you are #2. At this rate, I'll be 128 3/4 years old before I meet as many as you. Wow!! 27 Days!!

Egbok

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 06:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, we haven't met in person (yet!) but I'd know you and your anywhere!!

I've been out of the loop once again - didn't realize that you were going on a Road trip. I'll be sure to keep up on this thread now!

Have fun my friend!!

xoxo, Eg

Car54

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 07:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, Tess... what is the plan? When Butter went on her trip, you posted the play by play.. how are you going to keep us up on the trip?

Knowing you, you will pack a satellite dish and be able to post from the side of the road! We know how organized you are!

Tess

Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 12:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hahahaaaaa--I haven't figured out how I'm going to post from the car yet, especially since I do most of the driving. I don't have a fancy Buttercup phone either. Hmmmmm. We will have 2 computers in the car but still need internet access. I might need to get hubby to rig up something tricky involving my cell phone. In the meantime, I will be in touch with at least 5 people from here while I'm gone. I WILL be able to log in just about every day or someone's gonna get hurt!! I suspect a couple additional people might have my cell phone number before I leave the house, too.

I hadn't considered the satellite dish plan. That could work..........hmmmm.

Eg, you know I'm coming out to meet you next summer. There is NO way I can make a trip out west and leave out one of my all-time favorite people.

tess

Car54

Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 03:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The cell phone thing sounds good Tessie, get hubby thinking...he can post while you drive (I know he is the quiet type, but you can dictate!)

You can use your AOL if the town you are in has an access number. I did that when I was out of town a couple of weeks ago. If they have a number it is no extra charge. (you probably already knew that)

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 08:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, you will be able to post from the motel at night using local AOL dial-up. Now, the only trick is to make sure you stay in towns big enough to HAVE aol dial-up. I have stayed in towns too small while on road trips. That is a bummer indeed!

Okay, now, to save time and energy, you can have hubby typing up the trip log as you drive. Type it into the Notepad, or whatever Mac calls it, save it, and then later in the day, simply copy and paste it into tcvh.

You can also come to chat from the road. I chatted with Sage from an internet cafe in Sydney!

Jujuroadwarriordawg

Wink

Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 08:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Here ya go Tess. Have a great trip.123

Car54

Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 08:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Juju, that is what happened to me, the town I was in had no ISP access, so it cost me by the minute!!!
Brilliant idea about writing up ahead of time and copying!

Schoolmarm

Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 08:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, you will be SOL with AOL in Clarion....BUT I have two phone lines and will dial up the univerisity for both of us. I can log into multiple computers. This will be fun!

Tess

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 01:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wink!! That is fantastic, thanks!!

Have no fear all you doubters! We have unlimited AOL access with an 800 # to use for the towns which have no local access. We also already have the appropriate numbers programmed in for the stops we made on our previous trip and will have all possible additional numbers up and running before we leave. I'm still liking this hooking up to the cell phone thingy. I'll catch hubby at a week moment. He can make it an early birthday present for me. Such a deal!! We'll have 2 computers with us (on for the back seat, you know). Sometimes life is just soooooo good!!!

Now, with the idea of writing up ahead and copying--it's just possible that I might--that's MIGHT--let hubby drive my new car for a few minutes now and again so I can type up notes. Then again........ :)

I wanna leave today! Rumor has it there will be good ole Tennessee BBQ waiting for us in Nashville. Yummmmmmmmmy!

tess

Car54

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 01:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, is this the new car you bought with Lance's credit card? pic

Tess

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 02:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
yes!!! How did you know? (pssssst, btw--I told him it is silver--he hates red. This can be our little secret!)
tess

Merlin

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 04:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good idea on the cell phone to laptop hookup Tess. That way you can post the most current updates on your trip without any delay.

Are you able to download your digital pics to your laptop while in the car traveling? That would keep hubby busy while you are driving. He could edit and crop the pics for posting, read the current messages at TVCH for you, and make notes of things you want to respond to. He will be amazed at how fast this trip will go for him.

You might have him install a couple of extra cigarette lighter sockets in your new car so you can have backup power for all the computers, cell phones, etc.

Who knows, hubby may get into reading the site for you and get addicted like everyone else. Then he can get his own account and come to tvclubchat and we can greet(grill) him with a warm welcome.
shadymerl

Tess

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 04:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
or he might just sleep, Merlin.

Bookworm

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 06:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
He might need to sleep with all the little jobs we are giving him.

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 11:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, I will admit it is not at all easy to type on a laptop in a moving car, or even see the screen in bright daylight, so this idea of typing on the fly may not work.

Tess

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 11:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Are you doubting already, Juju? It will happen if I'm NOT the one driving AND if my cell phone can be adapted to hook up to my laptop. I doubt I'll be getting a new cell phone in the next 2 weeks so if this phone doesn't hook up somehow there will only be nightly updates from me. Who knows what other updates will appear though.

Merlin, if DH gets an account at TVCH I'll NEVER get him off the computer. It's hard enough now as it is. You just might meet him this summer though. Stranger things have happened. :)