Bill &d Beth White (20471)
West Virginia State Directors
Winter is upon us. The red-gold-green of the fall trees up here in the north-central area were absolutely beautiful this past year. As we look out of our motorhome garage here on the farm, we finally see the retaining walls nearly complete and look forward to seeing forms being put in place to run the footers for our new home very soon.
We have had an eventful couple of months. The West Virginia Traveling Mountaineers held their fall rally at Beech Fork State Park, which is located south of Huntington, West Virginia last month. It was great to get together with many of our West Virginia Newmar friends and to welcome friends from Kentucky and Ohio who joined us. Mary & John Knight working with Brenda Warren & Randy Sortet (and Katie) put on a great rally. They found lots of fun free activities in the area. We arrived late (better late than not at all), because Bill slipped after getting out of our motorhome shower and broke two toes. His left foot hit the bottom of the bed causing a dislocated big toe. Putting it back in the socket caused a lost toenail. Not fun! However, having a West Virginia camp out eased the pain for both of us. Good company trumps pain, or at least makes it more bearable.
We were happily surprised by Ralph & Nancy Dennis, Kentucky State Directors, who attended even though they were having problems with their motorhome. They drove to the rally and stayed in a local hotel. Bev & Flash Miller, past Ohio State Directors, also joined in all the fun and fellowship, enduring the drive to the campground with a hairpin curve, in the dark! There’s nothing better than the Newmar family!
John, Mary, Brenda, and Randy fed us amazing dishes for dinner; can’t spell it, can’t pronounce it, but it was delish! We are waiting for a rematch on Ladder Ball; someone needs to beat Randy. Mary and Flash had a breathtaking game of Jenga; now we need a match to beat Flash. We even had time to conduct some business, having our state meeting with all officers in attendance, discussing plans for upcoming campouts and rallies and electing officers for next year. Brenda made sure we all left with great gifts for attending and Randy made us all long metal hooks from his workshop. We used ours as soon as we got home. We had something behind our televator and the TV wouldn’t go all the way down, then it became unplugged. Bill and Flash fixed it by pulling out the sofa, pulling out the bed and laying on it with the “hook” Randy invented! There are pictures….
No campout is complete without campfire stories, and as you might have guessed, Ralph & Nancy did not disappoint. Yes, Ralph and his Wal-Mart trip with the dogs cracked everyone up! We burned some wood (thanks Randy), solved most of the world’s problems and greatly enjoyed everyone every evening. 
When you live so far away, it’s great to extend any time you spend with special people, so Bev & Flash agreed to follow us home to the White’s Campground. We have outside hookups beside our RV garage, aka house. On the way there, we decided to check out a new campground that had opened recently. On the way, Flash had a tire pressure monitor go off, so we stopped at a school parking lot to check it. Rather than taking two motorhomes with toads only a couple miles, we all piled into our motorhome and off we went. The road was curvy; it’s West Virginia. It got narrower and narrower, not a good choice for a future campout. We never made it to the campground; but we can all say we have now been to Quick, West Virginia. We both made it back to the four lane and it was smooth sailing all the way home. We actually made it before dark.
We spent the next few days showing Bev & Flash many of the places we had talked about, but they had never seen. Many curvy narrow roads, by car and four-wheeler, kept Bev laughing, for sure. They volunteered to help with the food truck that supplies food for our church’s soup kitchen, and they worked for hours with our church family cooking meals, preparing for deliveries and cleaning up. They were an amazing help! Bill got to show off his new 3D printer and made them a couple pieces. We did find some time to play with my Cricut, they got to see that in action; and we had some time to get crafty and made a door wreath. Time passed too quickly, as it does when you’re having fun! Like we said before…. There’s nothing like our Newmar family, and there’s a place for YOU at White’s Campground, whenever you can make it.
Beth & I hope everyone is doing well and we’ll see you down the road. God Bless you all.
We can be reached by email: janelewbill@gmail.com.
