What happened?

 Where did everyone go? It is hard to believe how busy and active it was just a few weeks ago. Approaching ghost town status now. A few folks hanging around till May or so for assorted reasons. Full timers planning their summer trips

 For us we leave May 7th heading to Cloudcroft NM for a week. Eight thousand feet elevation so thin air and far cooler temps. Will meet up with Wes and Lee and probably Jim and Renee. Wes and Lee live in Alamogordo not far away, Jim and Renee will be passing thru and staying at same campground.

 Short trip of less than three weeks. Still amazes me saying that knowing we never took a two week vacation.

 June will find Mary visiting her Mom for a week. I will stay here unsupervised! Yeah! In late July we head out for an extended roadtrip. Itinerary has changed somewhat but will not bore you with the details for now. Should be back in the RGV by December first.

That's all for now from here in the magic valley.


Taking it easy...

Progress report

 In less than a week we have made great progress. Kitchen is setup and all boxes marked "kitchen" have been emptied. My shop has been unboxed and set in place. The big piece left is Mary's sewing room. A room where I fear to tread. She will get it set the way she wants on her schedule.

  The shop being done and having exceeded my permission level inside, I decided to work on cart. If you remember I bought one back in January with promise of projects to come. Installed the lift kit the last couple of days. Had kept tires from cart left behind in Alvord to use on new cart. More things I want to do but focus turns to getting ready for short trip to Cloudcroft. You can look back for previous photo of cart, how it looks now. For the record that is a 1985 Club car.

 Today we must forage for food,  refill prescriptions, and donate stuff to charity. I know, paid to store it, paid to move it down here, now we give it away...


Never said we were smart, just said we were happy!!

Happiness is...

Today for most is a family day. We are a little different today.

Today happiness is:

A empty uhaul truck and a empty storage building. House is a disaster and full of boxes but give us a week and all will be good.

Happy Easter everyone.


Resting cause we be tired!

Additional information

 Yesterday's post did not convey a lot of information. In addition it seems I can not count very well. So here are some details for your edification.

 States to be visited in order of visitation: Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma. May slip West Virgina in there as well.

 It looks like this on the map. I am learning a new program that will allow you to drive along with us. More on that later if I figure out everything.

today is a good day for a good day...

Fall planning complete

 Now to see how close to plans it turns out. Trip will cover 124 days, 9 states and 24 different campgrounds. Should be a fun time.Next week brings a trip to Arlington for a special occasion. Hopefully May brings a short trip to Cloudcroft to celebrate our final move to the RGV.

 The kids have gone back to class and have left South Padre. We drove down yesterday just to eat at our favorite dive for seafood. Fun day.



gathering rosebuds...