The Year 1989...Our RV Beginning.

Howdy! Welcome to Bryce and Lisa Jackson's Personal RV Web Site. As you may have guessed from the title and the above picture, we live full time in our Motorhome. We travel basically only in the Western United States and are NOT retired NOR do we have any retirement funds. We earn it as we go...remember our motto, "No Matter Where We Go There We Are"! Which means you can't run away from the challenges of life, we just choose to experience them on the road!

Sept. 11, 1989 was our transition date from our old hectic stress filled life in the rat race of Southern California. Bryce was a month shy of 49 and wanted to see the USA in our Chevrolet (Truck and 5th Wheel Trailer). Our plan was to travel for 2 years and then settle down in a small community of 10,000 somewhere in the west! It is now past the year 2000 and we are still looking.

We love the FREEDOM and the FLEXIBILITY to be able to go where we want to, when we want to for as long as we want to. Our only problem was just how to make enough money to sustain this lifestyle.

Well we made it for 15 months before we ran out of money! We had no intention of settling down yet as we were having too much fun! What to do? Fortunately we had met some baby-boomer rvers the second month out. They were members of the ESCAPEES RV CLUB which is an outstanding organization that is a must for all RVers on the road.

We soon met others that also were working on the road and quickly discovered a company called American Guide Services (AGS) which produces RV Resort Visitor Guides. These guides are handed out to each RV visitor that registers and are paid for by local advertisers that wish to promote their products or services to the RVers. Our job was to sell advertising space on these visitor guides and earn commissions from the sale of each ad.

TRIBUTE TO ELOISE .... posted July 4th, 2007

Sadness has entered the Jackson household. Eloise our 18 yo Maine Coon Cat has made her transition as of July 3rd at 4:48pm. Today she is enjoying her independence from the physical. She was at peace when she took her last breath. My wife Lisa was away visiting family and I was at home caring for Eloise as we knew her time was near. I held her in my lap and she garnered one last purr that told me she understood and it was OK. This was the hardest thing I have had to experience since 1969 when my Father passed on with an unexpected heart attack.

Eloise was my cat since she "found" us the first week we were on the road beginning our RV lifestyle back in Sept 1989. She was a kitten that had been abandoned in a campground on the Oregon coast. Lisa's cat "Kirby", now 15 and still with us, found us in 1992, also as an abandoned male kitten from a Colorado campground.

Eloise has been an outstanding companion over the years and just a month ago was walking with us and still catching rabbits on our ranch. It was hard seeing her decline and July 3rd it was obvious she could not go on much longer. Her diagnosis was a tumor attached to her bowel and spreading into her chest, plus kidney failure, so we had no other choice but to allow her to pass as peacefully as possible. Kirby just does not yet understand where Eloise is as he has only known his life with her in it. He is sleeping in her spot and calls out to her plus seems to be looking for her.

Eloise has taught us a lot about life and we are blessed to have had her share her life with us. Cats live in the now and have no worries about the future which is how we have lived our life on the road in an RV. Freedom is and has been a large part of life now for 18 years. Freedom to go where we want to go, freedom to experience nature, freedom to do nothing or freedom to do anything we choose. We had no early private retirement and have worked on the road, earning income as we go. However since I turned 62 in 2002, we have learned to live off of our Social Security and enjoy a relatively stress free life. Life without her will be challenging for awhile but her spirit will live on with us forever.

Thank you Eloise, we will forever be grateful to you and love you.

Closing with Love, Bryce and Lisa ..

The Year 1996...Bryce Discovers the Internet (No he didn't invent it!)

While still traveling the west and producing RV Resort Visitor Guides for AGS, a little item called the Internet was discovered in Jan 1996! Bryce has been in computers since the early days of computers (1959) working for Lockheed Calif Co in Burbank, CA as Computer Programmer, (no one ever heard of computer programmers until the late 60's)! Bryce's complete work experience (1959-1997).

Finding out about the WEB, well that was it, he has never been the same since! 1996 saw him spend over 3000 man hours developing WebWorker web site. WebWorker's concept is to help everyone learn how to develope their own web site and promote it in such a manner as to create their own home-based business. WebWorker has literally thousands of web pages filled with FREE information to help anyone do what Bryce has done!

This has complicated our traveling flexibility. We now have to plan ahead of time where we are going, order a local phone connection ahead of time, so that when we pull in, Bryce can hook up and be online that same day. We also stay 1 to 2 months at a time instead of 1 to 2 weeks like we used to!

The Year 1998...Bryce and Lisa Discover ER4YT and ATT One Rate Cell Phones!

July 1998 found us with 2 revolutionary discoveries! The first was the way we communicate with the world and the second was with our personal health.

First, we subscribed to AT&T's One Rate Cellular plan that gives us cellular access with NO roaming charges and NO long distance charges! It is AWESOME! We opted for the 600 minutes per month for $89.99. In addition to the incredible access to our family at all times, the AT&T service also has a Voice Mail System that the caller is defaulted to when the Cellular Phone is turned off or is out of a cell service area. Our NOKIA cell phone can also be used to get your email although it is very slow at 9600! You can reach us at (775) 843-6877.

A better choice Today, however that did not exist in 1998 is PocketMail which allows you to get your email from any phone with a toll free number. This still is not adequate for us as we get 200 emails a day!

Secondly, our health changed dramatically with the discovery of a new way to eat based upon our blood type! For the years 1992 thru 1996 we had been on a low-fat diet and done nothing but gain weight and inches to the point that we were both the FATEST and UNHEALTHIEST we haD ever been in our lives.

Two books have changed our lives forever:

1. EAT RIGHT FOR YOUR TYPE
2. COOK RIGHT FOR YOUR TYPE

We discovered that putting the right food into our body allows it to heal itself! The concept is that our bodies assimilate food differently based upon whether you are a blood type A, B, AB, or O. Our metabolism speeds up with some foods and slows down with others. Faster metabolism means your body will burn off its fat that it has stored. In addition to losing 30 pounds and 4 inches around my waist, my allergies, high blood pressure and high collesterol have returned to NORMAL! This happened in just 2 months time!

All of my life I have struggled with high blood pressure and medications. After 2 years I am still without medication and my blood pressure is 110/75 to 124/84 each morning. My allergies which have always been a consistent problem are completely gone. This occured after just 2 weeks eating the foods recommended for Type O blood type.

As of Fall 2000, our bodies were still functioning outstanding, we went thru the first winter with NO colds, flus or any illness. This second winter found Lisa with a severe case of the flu. Other than that, our immune systems are now stronger than they have ever been! In fact we are in such good health we CANCELLED our Health Insurance Policy!

If you would like a more complete blow by blow description of our eating lifestyle and the successes we have experienced, visit our personal health web site that describes in detail how ER4YT has literally SAVED our lives.

2005 UPDATE: We no longer practise ER4YT but are now involved in the 3-hour diet system. We eat whatever we want to eat, just in smaller portions and eat every 3 hours. This keeps our bodies in high state of metabilism and the internal switch that gets turned on when the body begins to get hungry never gets activated. This means the bodies metabilism works constantly instead of slowing down to save food as fat, just in case another meal is consumed. The other thing about this diet is that it is FUN and EASY to do. Nothing to remember, just eat at 7am 10am 1pm 4pm and 7pm and a light snack at 10pm before bed. This last part is not recommended in the book, but we do it because we can and seems to have no adverse affect whatsoever as we lose 2 pounds a week with this schedule.

The Year 2000...No Matter Where You Go..There You Are!

WOW, we made it! Can hardly believe that it actually came and went so quickly!

An excellent choice to stay connected to loved ones and friends is PocketMail that we referred to earlier. While we personally do not use it, many of our RVing friends keep in touch with us via email from their PocketMail devices. Check with Camping World for availability.

October 2000, we have gone into the online auction business and have resigned from AGS after 10 wonderful years. As we travel about the country, visiting antique stores, we discovered many of them do not sell their treasures on the internet. This knowledge led us to develop our current operating procedure of helping other people sell their trash to people that perceive it as treasure.

Online Auction WebWorker:

Our auction webworker biz takes care of ALL the work. We take pictures, create eBay auctions, collect funds, pack and ship items. We have two options, 25% commission or $5 listing fee plus 10% commission. For more information on how we do that .... CLICK HERE. NOTE: update on this activity... In 2003 we curtailed this activity and no longer sell for other people. It was a challenging situation and the business world stepped in and created fixed building help-u-sell ebay assist businesses across the USA. Just look in the yellow pages to find one.

2005:

Bryce was heavily involved in Web Site Development and Internet Marketing Services prior to 2003. New clients were continually referred to us from our happy customer base. The year 2003 however was a transformative year for Bryce as he lost interest in "working". He still has a few clients that are very in-active and is not taking on any new ones. GPS and the world of GeoCaching.com is now one of his passions along with simulation fantasy baseball. Since we are both receiving Social Security which covers our basic expenses, we have no motivation to do any kind of work at all, just playing.

Lisa is still hard at play doing her buying and selling of green depression glass utilizing eBay auction services. In addition we go to many live auctions, swap meets, garage sales, and flea markets .... looking for that elusive item.

June 19, 2005 Another one of those times that change the course of your life. Bryce discovered an interest from his past called simulation baseball. From age 10 until into highschool, Bryce played a game produced by Cadaco-Ellis called All-Star Baseball. It was one of the first baseball simulation games that was based upon Major League Baseball Stats. Bryce's love of playing and watching baseball completely vanished when we hit the road full time RVing in 1989 and was not rekindled until June 19, 2005. Sim Dynasty Baseball Simulation was found on the internet by searching Google for "free fantasy baseball" This is quite sophisticated involving the GM and Manager capabilities in drafting a team and then running it for season after season. Of course a season may take anywhere from 2 months to 15 days depending on how many games per day are simulated. Each league determines this frequency so there is a wide variety of simulations you can enjoy.

SETTLING DOWN. We are for the most part bi-rving. I mean that we basically spend the spring, summer and fall at our Reno, NV ranch and winter in Ventura county, CA. We are never more than a few hours offline as we have internet access through our cell phone when we are on the road.

2008: OFF THE ROAD ... June 20th, 2008 ended out 19yr adventure of living full time in our RV. We purchased a 28yo manufactured home in Wadsworth, NV. Our 13yo motorhome was getting tired and needed some well deserved time off. We also needed to find a more permanent place to live and had been looking for a home for the last year. We live in a mobile home park right on the Truckee River with huge cottonwood and maple trees surrounding our home. It is truly a little bit of heaven here on Earth and we absolutely love it!

Hope to see you on down the road.. y'here, (yeah we still will be RVing on a limited basis!)

 NOW For the pictures ....

Come on you gotta see the pictures after reading all of that! Please note that we are also web developers and can work with you to set up your own Picture Gallery similar to the one you are about to view! Please note that if you would like the FRAMES version...CLICK HERE!