June 17 2012 The Start of A New Adventure

We planned to leave Anaheim on the 9^th, go to Riverside for awhile and eventually end up in Utah to volunteer at an animal shelter.  But something funny happened on the way out. . . A few weeks ago we had met a guy who is working on a big project, and he offered us an opportunity to work with him.  We traded emails for awhile but could not get together.  Then, the night before we left Anaheim, we got a message from him that he was in Bakersfield.  Since we were so close, we headed up there to meet with him.  And it’s been an adventure ever since!  

Some Utility companies here have developed a program to help improve the efficiency of Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems.  Ed works on commercial HVAC systems and he is brilliant at his job.  Right now he is setting up a new company, which can be complicated.  We are able to help there; Randy set the DBA, bank account and company emails, and is working on the applications that need to be submitted to the Utility companies.  I am doing all sorts of odds and ends and entering data into the utility websites.  Eventually we will travel around, checking buildings that have been serviced to be sure the job was done right, which is a perfect job for RVers.  

Bakersfield does not seem very interesting but it may be that we haven’t seen the best of it.  We spend a lot of time sitting in front of our computers, trying to pull together a company as quickly as possible.  Outside it’s at least 100 degrees so we don’t want to go out much anyway, although one evening we visited the local Emergency Room.  Randy developed a nosebleed that just wouldn’t stop, and the blood didn’t drip, it ran.  He bled for about 2 ½ hours before they got it stopped.  I was pretty worried but eventually they were able to cauterize it.  He had to be careful not to sneeze for the next few days but now he's better.  

So now we are wrapping up the creation of a company and getting work lined up.  This is about as different as possible from our previous careers but that’s part of the appeal.