We are finally on the way back to Missouri, only two months later than originally intended. This entire year has been a study in flexibility and unintended consequences. But one broken ankle and one land acquisition later, we are headed home. Or at least, we’re heading for our Missouri house, to get it ready to [...]
It’s difficult to believe we have been in New Braunfels for over a week now. Time is flying by! Another three weeks and we will be heading home to St. Joseph. A day or two after arriving, we met my cousin, Wayne, who has lived here for 30 years, and really knows his way around [...]
It’s hard to believe, but our stay on the outskirts of Dallas is nearly over. We move down the interstate to New Braunfels this Saturday. If it weren’t for wanting to get the monthly rate down there, and our “deadline” of getting home to St. Joe by the first of May, I’d like to stay [...]
We arrived at our favorite rural Dallas stopping place (actually about an hour from downtown, east of Plano), and have been getting settled. We’ll be here for a couple of weeks, then will head south to spend a month in New Braunfels. The reservations for our site there finally came through today, so that’s definite. [...]
I’m posting this from my iPhone. Yes, we have a mobile broadband modem & router, but we’ve used all our allowance for the month — a paltry 5 GigaBytes — and have unplugged it until the 20th, when the account is reset. Thank goodness for smartphones with unlimited data accounts! This is another reason for [...]
A rainy day in (not Georgia)… Waiting for the rain to turn into snow, as promised by the weatherman, buttoned up in the cozy motorhome, we are parked for the next two weeks in one of my favorite RV parks, Rocky Bayou State Park in Niceville, Florida. Phil is catching up on DVDs and email, [...]
After being caught in a weeks-long cold snap here in east central Florida, when temps got as low as 21° Farenheit, the weather is finally acting more like normal and warming up a bit. It wasn’t too bad. At least I had a chance to wear the heavy wool hooded sweater-jacket I bought in Ireland [...]
Yep, we’re still in St. Joe. It’s a long story, but to avoid tedium I’ll just mention the high (low) spots. When we took the RV out of storage, we noticed that the tag had expired, so we stayed over till Monday (which was a good idea anyway since I wasn’t finished cleaning out the [...]
Oops, ignore that map I posted the other day. Plans have changed. Instead, we will be taking the eastern route this year: With possible spontaneous variations, the dates and destinations are now posted on our travel calendar. We had thought about leaving earlier, but between grad school demands, doctor appointments and just plain not being [...]
That’s what the nurse advised after the x-rays showed I had not in fact broken my leg or kneecap. Coming up the stairs earlier this week I was almost at the top when I came around the corner landing and something went “crack” in my knee. I collapsed in pain and couldn’t put my weight [...]
