Sue's Part Time Job

I mentioned in my last post about some changes we were contemplating with getting another RV. So now I have another major change. Our son Fletcher called to say that the medical practice he works at in Ft. Lauderdale is looking to get a new bookkeeper. That the person who had taken over for the long-time bookkeeper had messed up the financial records and would I be interested in taking over the books. He said it could be arranged that I could do the accounting remotely from home.

So long story short - Fletcher drove up on the 21st and we drove down to his house on the 22nd. Then on  Monday I went in to work with him and met the doctors and started learning about their bookkeeping system using Quickbooks. They switched from using Quickbooks on their computer to using Quickbooks Online and I can access their records from my home computer. So I spent the rest of the week learning their record-keeping process and getting used to using Quickbooks. There is someone in the office who will handle the daily deposits and check writing and anything else that has to be physically done at the office. 

I've been retired since May 2006 and it's been a long time since I had to get up in the morning and go to work! But I enjoyed working with the staff (who are all younger than me) and getting to watch our son while he was working. 

I took my laptop with me and set it up to use with their system and I will use it to do my work on. I think Fletcher thought I was bored being retired and that this would give me something to do! Just from what I've seen that needs to be corrected on their books, I have my work cut out for me. I think my "part-time"

Tampa RV Show & RV Shopping

We've been talking lately about how we want to do more traveling and what would be the best way to do that - driving the car and staying in motels, or getting another RV. If we get another RV, would it be a motor-home or a travel trailer? We want something smaller than the 39' motor-home that we had before when we were living in it full-time.

That brought up more questions - if we got a motor-home we couldn't tow the Subaru Outback - we would either have to tow it on a trailer, get a different car, or travel with only the motor-home. I know a lot of people disconnect their motor-home from the campground hookups and use it for sightseeing, but that doesn't really appeal to us. 

If we got a travel trailer, how much weight can the Subaru Outback tow? Well, the hitch weight for the Outback is 200 lbs which means we would have to have a very light weight travel trailer or pop-up.

We decided we didn't really want to get a motor-home and have to get a different car to tow. So Mike and I have been looking on the internet to see what travel trailers or pop-ups we can tow with the Outback.

We just went to the Tampa RV Supershow this week. We drove over on Wednesday and spent the night at the La Quinta Inn at Pinellas Park. We paid $66 for the room and that was with their New Year Sale Promotion. Then on Thursday we went to the RV Show at the Florida State Fairgrounds.

We saw a lot of RV's, but the majority of them are too heavy or the tongue weight is too much for the