In the countdown!!

Well, it's now Thursday, April 29. We were aiming for departure on Saturday, May 1, but we ain't gonna make it! (Were you surprised?) Still, we're doing well given the fact that, in the last 3 weeks, we sold one of our RV lots to our good friends, Mark & Dortha Hall. Only a slight and very pleasant diversion! This allowed us to pay off the loan on our other lot, which incidentally is rented for 4 months of this coming season. Whew! So, a happy situation all around!

We've secured our remaining RV lot and its "coach house" against the summer's heat and humidity, our main concerns down here in south Texas. We live one and 1/2 miles from the Rio Grande River in the southernmost tip of Texas. We've tidied the front and back yards. Our patio is now clean, the patio furniture is about to go into the garage to join the BBQ grill. Our dog, Dixie, has had her final routine checkup and received her "Health Certificate", verifying her vaccinations are all current. (We need this to cross through Canada going to and coming from Alaska.) The motorhome is clean and ready for us to stow our gear. Now, we need to pack our stuff over to it. Once that's done, we'll clean our house and close it up for the summer. We're blessed to have a property manager who checks our property regularly while we're gone. (Thank you, Linda H.!)

I'm going to be adding some belated posts about last summer's trip up the Natchez Trace Parkway. I'd started this blog last summer but I fizzled out because the trip itself became more intriguing than writing about it! This spring, enter my friends Steve & Linda Westmoreland, who've both urged me to mend my errant ways and faithfully post about our trip to Alaska this summer. OK, you two, here it goes!!

Stay tuned! We're hoping to leave by Sunday or Monday, at the very latest. I'll try to add a little something each day or so.