Friday, September 18, 2009

Today was another gorgeous day with a high temperature on the truck of 83F (28C), gotta love that!! After dinner we sat out until well after dark in just our shorts and t-shirts so that will tell you how nice it is.

We had another good day of driving, we left Coloma WI and drove to Sious Falls, SD for a total of 632 KM (392 miles). The highways, so far, are really good, there was some construction but nothing that held us up and the traffic was very light.

The Mississippi











We crossed the mighty Mississippi when crossing the border between Wisconsin & Minnesota and we are now just barely into South Dakota, we will cross the Missouri Rivier tomorrow. Currently we are pretty well directly south of Winnipeg.

Today we felt like we could be driving through Southern Ontario as it was almost all corn fields with lots of grain elevators and some wind farms. Interestingly, of all the wind farms we passed we only saw 3 windmills turning – strange.

Typical of Today's Drive












This is the Cochrane family camping at Presquile so we hope their weather is as nice there as it is here.

Tonight's Home



Well, I have a couple days worth of blogs to post so will close out and get it done.

And so ends another great gift of a day and we look forward to tomorrow’s adventures.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Today was a gorgeous day with a clear blue sky and a high of 22C (73F), how perfect can it get!

Our drive today was across the top of Lake Michigan then south down the west side of the lake, what pretty scenery, we think it is a definite place to come back to some time and spend time exploring the area as it was all new territory for us.

On the whole the roads were good but there was a fair bit of construction, fortunately though, we didn’t get held up a lot so no problem. We sure notice a difference in the truck on rough roads and the inside of the trailer isn’t getting as bounced around as it used to – guess the new shocks were worth the money!

Lake Michigan







We stopped for lunch at a pretty marina along the lake and were surprised that there were only a couple of boats there, guess fall comes early to this part of the world.



Tonight we are at Coloma Camperland in Coloma, WI. Sure isn’t anything great, and no wi-fi, but I found there weren’t a lot of parks in this part of the country so you take what you can get. In fact this park had a new first for us – the office was in the saloon. We had to go into the bar to check in and what a smokey place it was - there were quite a few people in there enjoying themselves so guess it is popular.

Today we gained an hour which was good as it was a long drive – 578 km with a lot of that on a 2 lane highway.

I am now ready to hit the sack so will sign off and hopefully I will be able to get this and a few pictures posted tomorrow.

And so ends another great gift of a day and we look forward to tomorrow’s adventures.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Well, we are “On the Road Again” and glad of it. Yesterday we didn’t get away from Can-Am until about 2:30 so went as far as Country View Motel & RV at Reese’s Corners. The park isn’t anything great but is okay and made for a good jumping off point this morning,

Today was nice and sunny first thing this morning although a lot cooler than it has been, but by about 10 though it was pretty overcast and stayed that way most of the day – it didn’t rain though so we aren’t complaining! Actually the sun came out just before we crossed the Mackinac Bridge.

Our crossing at Sarnia was good, not a lot of questions so we were through quite quickly. We stopped at a Wal Mart just outside Flint to get some groceries so hopefully that will do us for a while.

Tonight we are at Lakeshore RV Park at St. Ignace, MI. It is an okay park with a great view of Lake Michigan right out our front window. The wi-fi works really good so we are pleased with that.

Mackinaw Bridge





View From Our Front Yard



Home for Tonight



I had originally plotted a route through Northern Michigan then John had suggested going through Chicago so I changed the route, then this morning he decided northern Michigan might be nice – MEN!!!! Of course I had deleted the RV Parks coming this way so had to work from memory today – now that is definitely scary!!! However, I did remember and all turned out well with a good day driving.

When I downloaded my e-mail tonight there were lots of birthday wishes, thanks everyone and yes, it was a great day. Also many thanks to those who called me yesterday,

And so ends another great gift of a day – stay tuned for tomorrow’s adventures.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Well, we are almost back on the road again. We arrived at Can-Am RV in London yesterday to get a few things done on the trailer before heading out but it is taking longer than expected so we will not cross the border until tomorrow.

We are heading west to the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, and Yellowstone National Park, then back into B.C. for about 6 weeks before heading south down the Oregon & California coast. We have no reservations made for the winter will just go where we want, when we want so are looking forward to an interesting winter.

We had a good summer but were getting a huge case of hitch-itch after staying in one place for 4-1/2 months. We did a few day trips to the Bruce Peninsula and the Sarnia area and did a run to Kitchener/Waterloo every couple of weeks but that was about the excitement for the summer. Two weeks ago on Wednesday we went to Nan's in Bolton for an end of the year family dinner so had a nice visit with Nan, Kel, my sister and all. Last Thursday we had dinner with Mike so all our goodbyes have been said.

Pat & Monica just took me to Boston Pizza for lunch for my birthday, they invited John to go but guess he couldn't handle three women as he passed on the invite. Thanks gals, it was a great time & much appreciated!

Our trailer is ready so we will pay our bill & head out.

Please come back and join us on our adventures and comments are welcome and appreciated.

Monday, July 6, 2009

I had a comment from Sandra today wondering what we are up to and thought maybe I should do a little update.

We have been enjoying (hah, hah) terrible weather since returning home - below normal temperatures with lots of cloudy skies, rain and very little sunshine. I feel sorry for the majority of Canadians who spent the winter here, which was very cold and snowy, and now they aren't having much of a summer either. We seem to get a couple of nice days then it turns cold and wet, I think I have had shorts on twice so far!!

In May I went and had my annual check up and mammogram and everything was fine so I could breath easy again, that time of year is always so stressful but every year being cancer free is a blessing!

A couple of weeks ago our friends Janet & Dave, who live on Vancouver Island, spent a couple of days here in the park on their way east so we had a good visit with them and Gil & Ginny also arrived here for a couple of days so it was a busy, but fun time. Fortunately, we had one nice day, the day Janet & Dave arrived, and we were able to sit on the deck enjoying the nice weather. Two days later we went to Bayfield with Ginny & Gil and had on long pants and jackets, that seems to be the norm for this summer.

This morning we spent two hours at the hospital in emergency as John had an ear ache so thought he should have it looked at, turns out he has an infection, which they say mainly affects children (I told him he should have said he was in his second childhood - lol!), so he is on antibiotics which hopefully will clear it up quickly. He came home and slept most of the afternoon so that was probably good for him.

We have been to Kitchener three times since we got back which seems funny after so many years of going every week to visit my mom. Our fuel bills certainly have been cheaper this year without all those trips! Every couple of weeks we either go south to Goderich or north to Port Elgin to visit Wally World and get caught up on a bit of shopping, also a good way to put in a cold, dreary day!!

We are planning on leaving here in mid September and heading out west and visiting Mount Rushmore etc. then Yellowstone Park. We will then go to B.C. for about 5 weeks, we want to do the Okanagan Valley, visit friends in Harrison Hot Springs and spend a couple of weeks on Vancouver Island. From there we will work our way south along the Oregon & California Coast and hopefully end up in southern California around Christmas. We have nothing booked this winter, will just wing it so it could be interesting, but hopefully it will be a fun time. I have spent some time planning our trip as far as B.C. so have a bit more to do, but once we start down the Oregon Coast we plan on finding a park and staying for a week, touring the area, then moving south a bit and spending another week, etc. so we will just play that as we go.

Yesterday we had a surprise visit from Rick & Brenda, we met them the last couple of years at Betty's in Abbeville, LA and they spend the summer in Port Elgin where they are park hosts for the municipal park there. Yesterday they were doing a visiting day so it was good to see them again and talk about winter plans. They have spent the last couple of winters work camping in Texas but they are planning on travelling this winter in Arizona so who knows, maybe we will meet up somewhere in Arizona.
This weekend our daughter Nan and husband Carl are coming so we are looking forward to having a nice visit with them. Kel & Tim were here on the May 24 weekend and Kel is hoping to come for a few days sometime this summer but doesn't know when yet. Mike & Franneca still don't have a weekend set to come but again hopefully sometime before we leave in September! We also want to have John's brother and his wife up sometime so having company will keep us out of trouble and give us something different to look forward to.

Next Friday we are going to friends in Elora for the day then on Saturday we are doing a day trip to Lions Head with Mike & Margie - sure hope the weather is nice for a change!

Okay, I've rambled enough and now you can see why I haven't been blogging - nothing worth writing about, but come mid September I will be back on line again, hopefully with interesting things to say and pictures.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

We have had a fairly busy week, especially Friday & yesterday. After our lovely weather all the way home, we got a real change on Tuesday - COLD & WET!!!

Tuesday, we started at Tim Horton’s for a chili lunch then we went to the cemetery in Sarnia and arranged for a marker for my parents grave and fortunately by then the rain had stopped although it was still cold. We then went and visited with John’s brother for the afternoon. I had hoped to use my computer at his place but he has the internet password protected and neither Doug or his wife’s son could remember the password so I was out of luck to log on. His wife Fran is a teacher so when she came home we visited for a while then went out to a little Italian restaurant for dinner.

Wednesday was a nice sunny day, but still cool, we drove through back country roads to Sombra then back to Sarnia along the St. Clair River – a very pretty drive but we didn’t see a single freighter on the river which was disappointing. When we got back I did laundry so that is out of the way for a while.

Thursday was overcast and cold and the weather forecast called for rain so we went out for breakfast as we had heard the restaurant at Reeses Corner had good meals - the breakfast was very good. We came back and John wanted to get the trailer hooked up before the rain started but of course as soon as he went out the rain started, fortunately it didn’t rain too hard so he didn’t get soaking wet. The rest of the day we spent reading – a nice quiet day. I had put spagetti in the slow cooker in the morning and it was a good day for comfort food.

Friday we woke up to sun but still cool, we arrived in Kincardine about 11:30 and then the fun began – unloading the trailer and getting the cottage organized. We spent the rest of the day moving stuff and getting everything in the cottage going so by the time 10:00 rolled around we were done in.

Saturday morning was more of the getting organized and moving stuff back and forth, then around noon Mike & Margie walked in, they had decided to come back here for the season but didn’t tell us, it was good to see them again. I had told Margie a couple of weeks ago that we were going to the Erie Belle on Saturday night with Alison & Bob for fish and chips and Margie walked in and asked if I thought we were going to go without them!

We had a coffee with them then John went to help Mike park the trailer. Other than helping Mike John spent all day raking the lawn and getting stuff out of the truck into the shed – we are getting there but still haven’t moved anything from the freezer in the trailer to the cottage.

I finally managed to get into town around 4:30 to pick up a few groceries and we were just ready when Alison & Bob picked us up about 6:30 to go into town. The six of us really enjoyed our fish and chips then they all came back to our place for a drink and desert – great fun catching up with everybody’s activities over the winter and it is so nice to see friends again after the winter.

Today is a beautiful sunny day, still a little cool but a nice breeze blowing, so I got towels washed and out on the line to dry. This morning at 11 the park had their annual Meet & Greet so it was nice to say hi to all our friends and neighbours here again. I think today we will try to take it a bit easier and I may just pick up a good book in a while.

As always, the last week has been a great gift here in the cool north and we look forward to another good week ahead.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Today was another gorgeous day with a high on the truck thermometer of 82F (26C) but it was WINDY again. Fortunately it was a tail wind until we turned east at Lansing, MI then we had it broadside on the curbside of the trailer so John had stopped before we headed east and really nailed the awning down with duct tape, fortunately it worked and we had no problem.

There was a Cracker Barrel 2 miles down the road from the park so we stopped there for breakfast. They have a new offering, skillet breakfasts, and we both had one and they were delicious but far more than we could eat so we have left overs for another day.

We had a good drive, customs was easy, and we arrived at Country View Motel & RV Resort (the word resort is used very casually at parks in Ontario!) at Wyoming, ON about 3:30. We are parked next to another couple from Green Acres, Kincardine, so when we pulled in Shirley came over and welcomed us back and invited us over for a drink when we got settled.

We had a nice visit with Shirley & Harry and caught up on each others winter, then came home and had chicken burgers for dinner. The wind was still howling so John wanted to do something quick on the barbecue.

The weather forecast for tomorrow is cold and wet, oh boy, I think I will have to find my jeans which I haven’t worn since early last December.

There is no WiFi here so I will have to find some place to stop and try to pick it up to get this posted and check e-mail.

It is nice to be back in Canada and as always, today was another great gift of a day and we look forward to another good day tomorrow.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Today was another hot day but not as sunny as it has been, not a problem as that is better for driving. It was also very windy but again we were fortunate it was a tail wind so we should have another good day for mileage.

We stopped at a Wal Mart to finish up some shopping and are now at what used to be the Auburn/Fort Wayne KOA, it has undergone a couple of owner changes so I am afraid to say what the name is now! This is the park where we spent our first night out last November so we have come full circle.

I didn’t take any pictures today and it has been an uneventful day so there isn’t a lot to write about. Hopefully we will cross over into Ontario tomorrow and plan on being at a park at Reese’s Corners until Green Acres opens on Friday, May 1st. I don’t think the park at Reese’s Corners has WiFi, or if it does it is ridiculously expensive, so I don’t know how often I will get to post next week.

But, as always, today was another great gift of a day in the sunny south and we look forward to another good day tomorrow.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Today was another beautiful, hot, sunny day – the high on the truck thermometer today was 87F (29C) – wonderful. I talked to our daughter Kelly late this afternoon, as well as my sister Pat, and both said today had been hot and sunny but then they were getting severe rain storms – just keep those there guys!!

We had a good drive today other than a bit of rough highway south of St. Louis, KY but it wasn’t as bad as we had heard it was and didn’t last too long so no problem – we sure have been on worse roads than that.

Nashville



It was nice to drive through spring with all the trees in Tennessee and Kentucky in their spring finery and lots of lilacs and dogwood in bloom – so pretty.





And We Passed Through Kentucky



It was also nice to see some hills and rolling countryside after almost 5 months of flat countryside!



And We are Now in Indiana



We are spending the night at Woods-N-Water Kampground near Columbus, IN., it is an old KOA campground with lots of trees that created a very challenging course to get to our site. Fortunately, I got out to walk John through a very tight turn and saw that he was almost right against two small trees, had he kept going we would have lost an awning arm so he didn’t complain when I yelled at him to STOP!! A bit of maneuvering and he made the turn and then another tight one before we got to our site; a few minutes after we stopped a fellow came by and said he was behind us coming in and he was impressed with how John had handled the tight turns – nice to hear.

When we were registering the fellow on the desk said there was another couple here from Ontario and they were sitting in the lobby waiting for their laundry to do so we chatted with them for a bit, turns out they are from Sarnia.

Tonight will be another quiet evening and we are hoping for another sunny, warm day tomorrow.

As always, today was another great gift of a day in the sunny south and we look forward to another good day tomorrow.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Today was the start of our trek north and it was a long day, 670 km (416 miles). We are now at Texas T Campground, Cornersville TN.

The drive was good except around Cullman, AL where we did 3 miles in an hour, when we finally got going we saw no evidence to tell us what the hold up was, but we presume there had been an accident. We considered getting off the interstate but decided all the other roads would be congested with cars getting off so just stayed where we were and figure that had been the right move as after about 5 minutes in a rest area north of the stop up two motor cycles came in who we had seen getting off on one of the exits to avoid sitting!

Today was very hot, the high in the truck was 90F (30C) – thank goodness for a/c!!

Crossing the Tennessee River near Decatur, AL



Alabama Welcome Centre



We're In Tennessee



Tomorrow we will have to do some rerouting off I-65 between Elizabethtown and St. Louis as we hear the interstate is a nightmare from ice damage in the winter, just hope we pick a route that wasn’t damaged!!

As always, today was another great gift of a day in the sunny south and we look forward to another good day tomorrow.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Yesterday was a quiet day with lovely weather – hot and sunny.

In the late morning I headed off to Wally World to pamper myself, I got a pedicure and my hair cut so now my toes are pretty and my hair doesn’t look too bad again! I picked up a couple of groceries while there then came back and John and I sat out enjoying the nice weather.

Ginny & Gil came over for dinner and as always there was lots of good conversation and laughs. Shortly after 9 Gil headed home to get things organized as they are heading out in the morning, and Ginny & I did the dishes while John worked on her computer for a bit. I don’t usually let guests help with the dishes but I guess it was a fair trade off while John did the computer.

We walked Ginny home and said goodbye to them knowing that at some time in the next couple of months we will get together at either their place in Kitchener or ours in Kincardine.

Today was another hot, sunny day with highs in the 80’s – a little warmer than I like but still nice. John headed off to Wally World this morning to get the truck filled up at $2.099 for diesel and to pick up some oil for an oil change when we get home.

When he got back he loaded the laundry into the truck for me and I headed off to the laundromat to get it clean again. Today I decided just to use the laundromat here in the park and one of the dryers wasn’t very hot so it took longer to do the drying as I had to put it in another dryer to finish drying – grrrrr!!

John is now getting the truck hooked up and everything set to go so we can get a fairly early start, (for us), in the morning and as soon as I finish this up I will get the inside as road ready as I can for tomorrow.

Dinner tonight will be some of the Royal Red Shrimp we bought on Tuesday in Pensacola so we are looking forward to a good meal.

I don't usually like to put my picture in the blog as I don't usually take a good one but this is one Ginny gave me that she took at Flounder's on Tuesday and I actually thought it wasn't bad.



And I finally got around to taking a picture of our trailer here at Gulf Breezes



Tonight will be a quiet evening of TV or reading and early to bed so we can be up and at it earlier than usual in the morning.

As always, the last two days have been great gifts here in the sunny south and we look forward to another good day tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Today was another sunny, warm day – we are treasuring these days as in another week we will be back in Ontario where we expect to find much cooler temperatures - we are not looking forward to that!

We picked up Ginny & Gil at 7:30 this morning to head over to Pensacola to watch the Blue Angels practice. They practice every Tuesday & Wednesday morning during their stay at Pensacola and these practices are open to the public, as well as the Air Museum, and it is all free – how good can that be!!!

We all thoroughly enjoyed the show, they are amazing and at times they were flying only 18” apart at speeds of over 500 mph – wow!! John and I had seen their practice back in the spring of 2000 but today was a much clearer day weather wise so we had a better view of them coming by the bleacher area and doing their formations.

The Blue Angels









After the show we toured the museum, it is very interesting with lots of good displays.

Presidential (JFK) Helicopter - 1962



Other Vintage Helicopters





From there we drove out to the beach area between Pensecola Beach and Navares Beach, the white sand and blue/green water was beautiful. It was quite windy on the beach but we did stop and spend a bit of time there and dipped our toes into the gulf. It wasn’t exactly warm and the water was very rough but it was oh so pretty.





Gil & Ginny on the Beach



We stopped at Flounders



in Pensacola Beach for a late lunch, John & I had had lunch there a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it and we weren’t disappointed as it was every bit as good today as it was then. Flounders is right on the beach so we could see the water and John & Gil could watch some gals in bikinis playing beach volleyball – LOL!

On the way home we stopped at Joe-Patti’s, a fish place that Barb & Jack had told us about and John and I bought a couple of pounds of headless, cleaned Royal Red Shrimp to bring home. Joe-Patti’s has every kind of fish & seafood you can imagine, as well as baked products, various sauces and even gelato. Gil treated Ginny & I to some gelato, John has will power and passed on Gil’s offer to buy him some, and it was very yummy!!

It clouded over on the way home and started raining as we came into Gulf Shores – what, this wasn’t forecast!! Fortunately it didn’t last long, about ½ hour, and at one point it really poured but that was fine as we had enjoyed a great day and the weather was beautiful until after we had done everything we wanted to do – what more could we ask for.

Tonight will be a quiet evening of TV or reading.
As always, today was another great gift of a day in the sunny south and we look forward to another good day tomorrow.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Well, here I am playing catch up again, we’ve got to stop having so much fun so that I can get back to routine and keep things up to date!!!

The weather forecast for yesterday was for rain, with severe storms possible, so we decided it would be a good shopping day. It turned into a nice day, mainly cloudy but no rain, so we were quite happy as severe storms just aren’t fun.

Gil picked John up about 11 and they headed off to Mobile to tour the battleship USS Alabama and a submarine, by all accounts they had a good time and were fortunate that it didn’t rain as it wouldn’t be fun touring a battleship in the rain. Jack opted to stay home so didn’t join them.

Barb, Ginny & I headed out shopping about 11:30 with our first stop being the Old Time Pottery which I have never been in before – what a huge store with everything imaginable for home decorating, lots of fun wandering around there. From there we headed to the Outlet Mall and our first stop was for something to eat - a pizza slice filled the void. We then checked out Fossils as Ginny wanted to look at their watches, then a kitchen store, then the Corning Store, oh yeah, now we need to check out some clothing stores so we did that, with our final stop being Fresh Produce (yes, that is a clothing store) where we were told it was closing time – bummer!! Not really as I think we were all three shopped out by then!!

Ginny & Gil had asked us all to dinner at their place and I had put a pork roast in the slow cooker first thing in the morning to make pork pull, so we took that for dinner and Gil cooked some pork chops and Barb brought asparagus and Ginny did some potatoes so we had a great dinner with good company.

By the time we got home the evening was pretty well done and another great day had come to an end.

Today was a beautiful, warm sunny day with a high temperature in the mid 70’s – my kind of weather!!

This morning John and I had a couple of returns to do then we drove down to the beach, the water was rolling in pretty good so although there were a number of people on the beach no one was in the water. We then drove out to Fort Morgan, which is at the end of the road on Mobile Bay. You can take a ferry from Fort Morgan across to Dauphin Island, then there is a bridge joining Dauphin Island to the mainland at Mobile, this is a lot shorter than driving around Mobile Bay to Mobile but it is also very expensive.

Mobile Bay Drilling Rig (There are a lot of these rigs in the bay as well as the ocean)



Fort Morgan







We couldn’t believe all the houses built along the intercoastal waterway on the road to Fort Morgan, I can’t imagine building a house there with the constant threats of hurricanes each year. There are huge areas of dead trees along there from Hurricane Ivan which hit Gulf Shores dead on in 2004 and then Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the storm surge brought in so much salt water that there were thousands and thousands of trees killed.

Just A Small Beach House



Dead Trees



Beach Houses



We had invited Gil, Ginny, Barb & Jack for happy hour at 5 so got home just in time to do some veggies and dip to serve at happy hour. The Blue Heron kindly came to the pond beside us while we were sitting out on the patio so we had fun watching him stalking his dinner.

Blue Heron By The Pond





Jack, Barb, Gil & Ginny



Around 7 we all headed out to Lulu’s for dinner, Lulu is actually Lucy Buffet, Jimmy Buffet’s sister, and Ginny & Gil are Jimmy Buffet fans so wanted to go there for dinner. The restaurant is right on the intercoastal waterway so has a great view and we had a great dinner with lots of chatter and laughs.

It is now pretty well bed time and we have to be up early tomorrow morning for our planned event so do come back and check out our next adventure.

As always, the last two days have been great gifts here in the sunny south and we look forward to another good day tomorrow.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Time to catch up again, yesterday wasn’t a real exciting day so I didn’t bother to do my blog. It was a hot, humid day and the first thing on the agenda was laundry, Barb had said there was a nice laundromat down on Fort Morgan Road so that was where we went to get that job out of the way. Once we finished with the laundry we went to Wally World to do some shopping and we ran into Ginny, Gil, Barb & Jack there, they had planned on a walk on the beach in the morning but they said it was too windy so they had gone out for lunch and stopped for some shopping.

When we got home we unloaded the laundry and groceries then John drove up to Foley to try and find a bracket for the slide on the bathroom drawer which had broken, having no luck at either Lowe’s or Home Depot he came back and managed to make do with the broken one until we can find a replacement. By the time he finished that it was time to start dinner – where oh where do the days go!!!

Today John & I decided to drive up to Fairhope which is a beautiful little town on Mobile Bay. We took all the back roads to get there and once we started driving up the bay boy did we see some gorgeous homes. Fairhope is a quaint little town with lots of neat stores but we have done the stores before so didn’t bother doing any today as it was very busy there.

Nice Sculpture in Park at Fairhope



Mobile Bay at Fairhope



Beautiful Flower Beds in Downtown Fairhope



Fairhope Traffic Calmers



Roses in Garden at Fairhope Park



Fountain in Rose Garden



Now This is a Stretch!!!



I Don't Think I've Ever Seen Pretty Shrimp!!



From there we drove up to Spanish Fort as Kelly had asked me to get her some stuff at a Bath & Body Works if we were near one and at Fairhope we were only about 12 miles from Spanish Fort, where there was one, so figured we had nothing better to do. What a huge shopping mall there, one could have a really great time if they were really into shopping!!

We again took the back roads home and found a brand new Wally World out in the middle of nowhere so stopped and picked up a couple of things, then on home.

This Guy Was Standing at the Pond Beside Our Trailer When John Went Out to Barbecue



Last night we got caught up on phone calls – talked to M & M, my sister and my friend Janet – it’s always nice to get caught up. I also talked to my brother in Australia for a bit on Skype but again the internet signal wasn’t great so I am looking forward to trying it when we get home.

As always, the last two days have been great gifts here in the sunny south and we look forward to another good day tomorrow.