High and going higher: Today we are in Sante Fe at the Santa Fe Skys RV park. It actually sits outside the city and looks down on Santa Fe. It has been described by many as a "pricey but nice RV park". I agree. It is the most expensive place we have stayed, but it is the best park in Santa Fe and we are kinda lucky to have a place here just before the 4th. We continue to learn the ropes of RV life. I'm actually improving on my backing, but still far from proficient. We have had pull-thru spots at our last 2 to 3 places, but even that can be a challenge. I always want the fiver exactly lined up in the right place on the space. Mom agrees, but some times we have trouble communicating exactly what has to happen for that to occur. She hops out of the truck when we arrive at our site and proceeds to give hand signals to direct my positioning. We have discussed the hand signals several times, but in the heat of the moment she is ...
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Movin Fast…Movin Slow: One week ago we left on this journey. Even though we have been moving really fast, we are still not out of Texas. Since then we have been to Lake Tawakani, Holiday lake in Benbrook, Abilene State Park, Lubbock, and this morning finds me in Palo Dura Canyon State Park. It is a surreal landscape which changed from unending plains to a huge multicolored gouge in earth within only a few miles. For hours you are traveling on a flat very straight highway with bland mid-summer colors of brown and more brown with some brown thrown in for variety, and suddenly you’re creeping down a very narrow 10% grade (steep) surrounded with unending variations in tones of red and yellow and green. This is the second largest canyon in the U.S. that God put as a bonus for Texans who will never get see Arizona’s Grand Canyon. This is not the Grand Canyon, but for a flat-lander like me it is awe inspiring. Right now I am moving slo...
Day One: A big nothin Because we arrived yesterday afternoon, today is actually day one of our adventure into the unknown realm of full time RV living. It has, so far been to say the least, a "nothing day". No problems, no responsibilities, no jobs that have to be done, no critical decisions that have to be made, no nothing. I kinda like it. Here is why I kinda like it. Consider this. On May first, about a month ago, we put up a for sale sign on our house. Six days later we sold it. Then the required inspections, corrections, endless paper work that go along with selling the most valuable procession you own, began. Along with that there was 48 years of stuff that had to be dealt with before closing day. That meant several garage sales, one of the most distasteful activities known to man. Nicer stuff required posting and advertising on the internet. Another lovely activity where you talk to people who want...
Jello!!!
One of the first things we were told when we started down this RV road was that things change. We have started, as many do, to use the code word "Jello". When you make a plan you better make it knowing it is like a hand full of Jello. If everything goes right you can hold Jello in your hand for a while, but there are lots of things that make it really hard to hold it together for long. RV travel plans are like that. For example, torrential rain at the place you planned to go next will certainly "jiggle your Jello" and make it impossible to hold together. We have a wonderful lot we call home base. Good friends just said, use it as long as you want. It does not get much better than that. It is where we head when we want to check in and on friends and family. We were going there yesterday. I say were because our plans became a little jiggly when it rained every day for a week and ended with a one hour, two inch finally. N...