Good Morning Chris, not sure if this helped the original poster but I must say that it made everything click for me. I know the notes on the first 5 frets but didn't know how to relate them to the rest of the neck. Now I know how to find them.

I have the first 5 memorized but I didn't think I could memorize the whole neck so knowing how the notes are in order and which notes do not have spaces between them makes everything simple.

Thanks for great explanation.
Jaime