{"id":9840,"date":"2023-04-01T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=9840"},"modified":"2023-03-31T01:09:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:09:34","slug":"april-2023-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=9840","title":{"rendered":"April 2023 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The latest in our series on<\/h3>\n

The People of the Park…<\/h3>\n

Music & Movies with Rob Foy<\/h1>\n

by Dale Dauten<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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One of the things you gotta love about Silveridge is the spirit of volunteering. We often hear heartwarming stories of neighbors helping neighbors, and we get to visit with some of the volunteers who brighten up the park with their energy. Today we get to visit with one of the park\u2019s super-volunteers — as Activities Director Lu Way said about Rob Foy, \u201cI have him on speed-dial.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We asked Rob about his getting involved with park activities: \u201cWhen someone would be planning an event and I\u2019d mention that I used to run sound professionally, the response was, \u2018Wait. What? No kidding!\u2019\u201d And so it didn\u2019t take long for Rob to be in demand as the Silveridge sound expert. When we met with him, he was waiting for a band to show up for a sound check. That\u2019s Rob below, backstage at the Ballroom.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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If you look carefully at the photo you\u2019ll see Rob\u2019s shirt says \u201cGroovefather\u201d and those are drumsticks above the name. That\u2019s because Rob is a drummer who\u2019s played professionally for much of his life and who performs with the house band at the park. (They call it The SR Band and Rob jokes that while “SR stands for Silveridge, but it also stands for Senior Reprobates.”)<\/p>\n

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Besides being involved in many of the park\u2019s live events, Rob and his wife, Amy, also run the movie theater. (When you go to the movies at the park, take a minute to appreciate the improvements to the sound system that Rob initiated.)<\/p>\n

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A BRIEF BIO<\/p>\n

We asked Rob our favorite question, the one about \u201cthe best advice you\u2019ve ever gotten,\u201d and he replied, \u201cMy father used to say, in effect, \u2018You are the best you that\u2019s ever been.\u2019\u201d Then Rob went on to add, \u201cHe was a cabinet maker who owned his own business and created fine furniture. He was a man of integrity and people loved his work.\u201d\u00a0As for Rob\u2019s mother, she was mostly an at-home mom but who went back to school later in her life. He described her as a woman of many strong opinions and said something profound about his relationship with her:<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe offered a lot of advice\u2026 advice or criticism. How you take it depends on your attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And that is profound advice, right?<\/p>\n

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Rob came from a big family: two brothers and a sister, and then his parents later adopted three more children.<\/p>\n

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This was in Bloomington, Minnesota. Rob went to school there: Jefferson High and then Normandale CC, where he was a music major and graduated with an Associate of Arts. He worked for his dad growing up, but he also performed in a series of music groups. One was called Brazz in honor of its three-piece horn section and one played island jazz and went by the name Exotica a Go Go. He was also part of a group called Slice which not only performed but also made radio jingles, and when that group teamed up with a soloist they became Ginger Commodore and Slice, and tried out for the old “Star Search” television show.<\/p>\n

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Eventually, however, Rob had to admit that \u201cplaying drums wouldn\u2019t make a living,\u201d and that\u2019s when he became a sound professional. He often found himself driving a truck full of equipment across the country. \u201cIt would sound glamourous to be doing a gig in Sanibel Island, in Florida, but I\u2019d drive a rig from Minnesota to Florida and then spend twelve hours in a windowless ballroom setting up.\u201d Then he smiled and added, \u201cI\u2019d get to go to the beach at night and that was nice.\u201d After the birth of his second son, Rob ended up spending 23 years with a sound system rental company called Audioquip, and that got him off the road and into a regular job, becoming GM of the company.<\/p>\n

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When their two sons were grown, Rob and Amy started dreaming of a life on the road, a life as full-time RVers. They spent five years doing research, following bloggers who put their lives on YouTube, and going to RV shows and rallies. Eventually, they settled on a 43-foot RV with a \u201ctoad\u201d (Rob tells us that\u2019s the RVer jargon for flat towing a car) and were ready to commit to the RV life. Really ready: they sold their house.<\/p>\n

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That was four years ago, and they still love being full-time RVers.<\/p>\n

(Photos: The Foy\u2019s home on wheels, and the Foy family \u2013 Sam, Amy, Jack and Rob — at the Grand Canyon)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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One of the practical matters of living in an RV is the need for a legal residence and the Foys found that South Dakota was \u201cnomadic friendly.\u201d It started as a convenience, but they also fell in love with the place and now spend summers in Rapid City.<\/p>\n

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Their winter home is at Silveridge, and they discovered it the way most everyone else does, via a friend. \u201cWe had friends with a motorcoach who were at Silveridge,\u201d Rob said, \u201cand they told us that there was a space right next to theirs that we should check it out. We decided to snowbird it and reserved that spot for three months. We arrived on New Year\u2019s Day in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They continue to divide their time between South Dakota, Arizona and the road. Rob says, \u201cThe most common question we get is, how long are you going to do this? But we love it and plan to keep going for at least four or five more years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s music to the ears of Silveridge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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