It's Time to Go

I can't believe we have been here since the end of December, but slowly but surely, we are getting anxious to get back on the road again. Temperatures in the daytime have been going up to 106 degrees last week and yesterday it was 103 degrees. Even though the humidity is very low here, that is still pretty hot. We sort of skipped spring and went right in to summer. At night the temperature are normally not below 72 degrees, which means we are running the air conditioner a lot. If everything goes as planned and we will get our mail on Monday, we will be back on the road on Tuesday heading northwest.

So what has been going on with us since I last posted? Well, we spent Easter with Doug's Dad's wife's brother's family in Victoria (try to stay with me on this one) and had a great time. It was a 4 hour car trip to Victoria, but well worth the long driving time. There was so much good food and a very strange Easter tradition. After lunch all the kids go out to hunt for Easter eggs. So far so good, but then a whole bunch of eggs are being brought out that have confetti in them. The egg fight that followed was indescribable, Confetti was found in every ones hair and lots of other places. :-)



We have made friends with some of the other couples in our RV park and three of the ladies and I have been going shopping to Clothing Outlet stores and the mall. Three of us actually went to Mexico last Friday. Bonnie had to go to the dentist and Linda took the opportunity to show me a little bit of Progresso. So many street vendors and little stores with nothing but tourist stuff and pharmacies. It is well know here in the US that most of the towns across the border have cheaper medicines and dentists as well as purses, clothing, alcohol, etc.. It was interesting to see, but also good to be back on American soil at the end of the afternoon.

People around here find a reason to celebrate just about anything. So we went to a "Blooming Onion Festival" last Saturday. The onions have been planted on October 15th the year before and are therefore called "Onion 1015". Good food and a lot of heartburn was to be had, but they also had some music band playing and an one hour demonstration of "Dancing Horses", which was pretty interesting.


We have spent most of this week deciding what will stay here in the coach house and what to take with us back on the road. Coach house is pretty much done and the storage areas in the rig are starting to shape up nicely. Next time I will post, we should be on the road again. Until then ....