TicketMonster, what's taking you so long?. . .

Still don’t have our tickets for opening day. TicketMonster http://www.ticketmonster.com/ says we’ll get them “one to two weeks before the game” so I guess we won’t use THEM while we’re on the road! Most of my BallparkChaser.com “friends” on facebook seem to like StubHub and I have used them before so that’s probably what we’ll use from now on.

I have just ordered the BallPark Pass-Port https://mlbballparkpassport.com/ which I said I wasn’t going to do! But it’ll be a great way to document every  ballpark with a stamp and pictures and note where our seats were. We have to have something to jog our memories!

We’ll pick up our motorhome on Thursday from its most recent stay in the RV Hospital. They fixed a few minor things and will add a new satellite antenna. We aren’t getting new TVs (the ones we have are 18 years old!) because for the cramped space of the RV, they are fine, if a bit small. It will be a shock to go from a 75˝ new flat-screen HD TV to an 18˝ old no-bells-and-whistles-whatsoever TV! If that’s our biggest problem, it will be a great trip!

Pretty soon I’ll have to think about what foodstuffs we should bring from the house to the rolling house. And what clothes to bring. And what toys to bring: which laptops, which camera, which extras (portable hard drives, SD cards, cords for charging all that stuff. Checklist, here I come!

And of course I have to finish the newsletter I edit (Symbiosis, the newsletter of the Association of Zoo and Aquarium Docents and Volunteers—say that three times, fast!) before we go and plan for doing it again while we’re on the road. The next issue goes to the printer in early July and that’s when the plan is to see our last game (July 3, Dodgers vs Mets). Of course it will be a miracle if we can actually manage to see the games exactly as planned.

A fun side trip is PLANNED to be New York City from May 11 to May 14. We’re scheduled to see the Yankees vs Orioles on May 10 but then there is NO team at home for four days in NY, Boston, Toronto, or Pittsburgh. So, we’ll stay in NYC for those 4 days and play tourist in Randy’s hometown. Our only plan is to see some relatives, go to “Bugs Bunny at the Symphony” http://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1415/new-york-philharmonic-and-warner-bros-present-bugs-bunny-at-the-symphony on May 16 and do something special for our anniversary on May 12. No idea what we’ll do for our anniversary, suggestions appreciated!

Next stop, Opening Day at Chase Field in Phoenix!