We're Baaack! or a short traveloge.

Of course after we got up here to Oregon last year we found out that all of our important papers were down in Arizona So off we went thinking we would only be gone a few days (right here I should have known better) off we went to Quartzsite. Then a sudden thought hit me, we are going to go through mountains during winter times. $400.00 ++ later for new traction tires we were ready to go, again. Ever driven 1500 miles with snow tire when you didn't need them?
Wasn't a happy camper.
In addition can you visualize a 70 year old driving a over loaded, gutless minivan during rush hour on LA freeways? Not pretty picture. All the other drivers seemed to want me to see something in the sky to which the kept pointing. I'd slow down to try to see what they wanted me to see but all the seemed to do was make all the other drivers eager to help them point.

Well we finally made it down there after three nights in motels, another $300.00. Plus $90.00 in gas. Surprisingly everything was in pretty good shape except the awning which we knew was bad. So we bought a new awning and an Arizona Room (a sealed-in tarp room under the awning) which nearly doubled our living space. Another $1100.00. By now I figured We just won't eat for the next year or two.

People at Church were interested about my health so Suday I got a chance to to tell everyone how bad off I was when we left and I hadn't really died. Some even seemed a little disapointed I hadn't died. So the week after I collasped in a parking lot in Yuma and got thrown into the hospital just for them.

Well a few days turned into nearly two months and both of us are glad to be back. Perhaps our traveling days are going to come to an end. The mind still wants to go but the body jhust isn't up to it any more. Love to all. Dad