Time to tell – to paint the picture of the ‘winds of change’. I’ve had the greatest urge (for quite some time) to go on the road, hit some great camping sites, drop in and bug my relatives for a week or two and find all the little spots and places in the U.S. that host poker on a regular basis. No…I’m not talking about private games. I’m a little leery of private games due to all the tales I’ve heard over the years. I’m talking casino/bar places that carry a license.

On top of the ‘urge’, I am easily bored by a lot of things in life. It really doesn’t take much to bring an appreciate sigh or laugh to my lips – a sunrise, someone’s enthusiasm for life, the view from a kid’s perspective, and the list goes on – but in general, the regular ‘take’ on every day life has a tendency to make me wish I took drugs. *Kidding* I honestly don’t know how people get up every day and keep their nose in the same place, at the same job, at the same pace, year after year.

I’ve moved many times in my life and I find it to be quite refreshing, starting over, finding all the new places to see/be. Change is a good thing for me. So…I’m going to take Table Tango on the road. It’s going to be awhile before everything comes together and I’m actually out and moving down the highway. Vegas will be my home base for a number of reasons. This is the plan as I see it, keep in mind all plans are subject to change but this has been shaping in my thoughts for quite a while:

1: I looked at Motor Homes and finally decided on a Fifth Wheeler, hence the truck purchase, and had decided on a Newmar Cypress back in September. First the truck was pre-ordered and now awaits my needs to move around the city and the country. (Viv standing by the truck).

2: This is my new one bedroom apartment on wheels…although it’s not mine yet, that plan is underway and should happen soon. This is what it looks like when it’s ready to roll, ready for the truck to back up, hook up, and pull it off into an adventure.

This is what it looks like when I’m settled for a while – either in an RV park or at one of my bro’s places in N. Idaho. The slides are out and it’s ready to live in.

The living area – with the slide out for the couch:

An overview of the kitchen/dining – the slide is out for the dinette:

The cozy little kitchen with everything but the dishwasher – that’s because I’m not in the picture…*laughing*

The shower (the ‘water closet’ is totally enclosed with its own private door and not shown):

The shower, ‘water closet’, and washer/dryer closet are all in the bedroom area:

Don’t think this baby is cramped – every inch of it’s figured out for storage and it’s 37 feet long (inside) – that’s not overall length. The scary part is that my vehicle length, once I’m moving down the road, is somewhere around 60′. That’s a whole new driving experience for me.

So…I plan to pick up the Cypress – after having a few things done to ‘fit it’ exactly the way I want it, and move my belongings into it. That should all happen within the next three weeks – if the plan goes off as I think it should. In the meantime, I’m having a gi-hugeous rummage sale, have already rented a small storage unit to save my little treasurers that I can never give/sell/discard, and once all of the above is completed, my house is going on the market. My Cypress will be my new home.

I believe I will be at Bellagio until the end of April when the Five Star World Poker Classic Tournament ends. If the plan goes full steam ahead, I will stay on Bellagio’s ‘hired’ list and work their three tournaments each year. Until the end of April, I will be ‘RV’ parked in Vegas, taking weekend camping trips with my son and his family (taking my home with me J) and getting used to the overall experience of an apartment on wheels.

After that – Table Tango has gone mobile. When I get tired of being once place, I’ll just hitch up and go to the next. Sweet! I may play/deal tournaments, just cruise through a place with poker and hang out on the rail, take a week and hide from the world when I’m in the mood, AND STOP ON MY WAY THROUGH YOUR TOWN/CITY.

I have another plan about setting up a route and in that plan, I’d like some help and cooperation from readers. If everything falls into place on a road trip, and I have information from readers (you), on poker in your area, what to expect, where to go, RV parking (preferably Internet urls so I can check it out ahead of time), I will meet you and hopefully visit your favorite poker room.

Coupled with that plan, a new face is coming to PokerWorks.Com. There will be a new section, for each and every one of you to have your ‘poker story’. That is not a bad beat section or a hand history section, it’s about you, how you first got into poker, where you play, recreational/for a living, and other pertinent info that you want to share with the poker world. That’s coming. There will be more info on it soon.

If we meet and have the opportunity to visit/play poker with each other, of course you’ll be written about in Table Tango. Pictures too.

It will take a little time, but soon I’ll be ‘on the road with Table Tango’.