Granted, many readers may be saying to themselves, “Thank God all those ads are gone!” But by the time others read this post, they may be thinking, “What on earth is this guy talking about?” If you’re the slightest bit interested in making little extra spending money by placing Google ads on your own website, or you wonder why we’ve stopped running ours, please read on. If not, rest assured the ads will be back. Hopefully soon.

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One of the reasons why I wanted to leave Humboldt County was because in the nearly 10 years that we lived there, many of the great ideas that people have about improving the area, never get off the ground. With the exception of the Redwood Technology Consortium who won the fight to connect Humboldt to the real world with fiber optic cable a few years ago, it seems that most great ideas never go anywhere.

Every improvement from the badly needed pedestrian / bike trail connecting Eureka and Arcata, to the fabulous Bay Trail, to the Marina Center Project, requires 10 consultants and 100 studies, and 10 years later, guess what? Nothing. Now, that definitely isn’t the fault of great residents like my friend Jen Rice who are so dedicated and try to get things like the Bay Trail to happen. No, not at all. It’s just that there are so many darn factions and infighting in Humboldt, that nobody can agree on anything. Every great idea that comes up will have a fight on its hands by some group claiming to know what’s best, guaranteed.

So as we head out into the rest of Small Town U.S.A., we are taking note of which towns have leaders and citizens that can work together and get things done.

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The coziness of campgrounds like this definitely has its pros and cons…

Awoke this morning to hear our neighboring campers reading the graphics on the side of our rig that advertise our blog sites. They sounded interested in RVBlogz.com where we will create free Wordpress blogs at subdomains (i.e.; yourname.rvblogz.com) for people to easily write about their travels and keep in touch with friends and family while on the road. We are still in the early development stage of this venture, with the hope of launching later this summer. The idea will be to syndicate our Google Adsense campaigns through these free sites, and/or charge nominal fees for enhanced services.

Went for a walk a bit later with Jerry and another camper mentioned he knew someone with a three legged dog they re-named Tripod. We couldn’t pass that opportunity to hand off one of Jerry’s cards with information about tripawds.com – his site full of information and resources about canine cancer and caring for a three-legged dog.

Stay tuned for more details about our free travel blog service or look into setting up your own blog with Wordpress or through an affordable website hosting provider. You can then set up your own Adsense account through Google to help supplement your income. And be sure to check out Jerry’s three legged dog blog to see movies of him swimming at Lake Francis.