Did you give up yet?

Yes, it has been about a month and no new blog stuff. Kind of defeats the purpose of a blog I guess. But I am back. We begin the next leg of our journey with this present location setup as home in Texas where we are Texas residants, finally. The Escort and Motorhome are now Texas vehicles and Linda and I are the proud carriers of a temporary Texas license.

We went to a softball game tonight to watch the kids play and take care of our grandson one last time before we leave for awhile. Parting is dificult. This place has really become a part of us and feels like home. I love having Mindy and Mike living close to us. Once college bound we kind of lost our daughter. Not like you lose friends but close enough. We really are enjoying seeing them and living around them. But alas we move on to the other part of our journey.

Tomorrow morning we plan to depart for Granbury Texas where we are finally going to visit with some long lost friends from LA, CA. We all lived in an appartment complex north of Pasadina. We enjoyed our time together but like everything else we allowed life events to make the friendship a thing lost. But the joys of Facebook and we are back in communication. We started this process many months back before we even sold the house in Roseville so it has been a long time coming. We are so looking forward to finding out what our friends have been up to for so many years. With Facebook we have a clue but face to face always trumps the computer. The computer is a strong second though.

Then on Tuesday of this week we start our last leg of the journey to Tennessee, it will be a 1000 mile journey, any bets on us making it in one day? I did reserve a campground for Tuesday night but left open the last minute call should we just feel a little too tired to press on the whole distance.I did note that Tuesday we will pickup thunder stormes around half way there so those could have some influence. The RV has a way to go to be ready to role. Still several more trips from the house to load it up. Still have to load the fresh water tank and fire up the water heater.
Got to wash the windows etc. etc..... It kind of feels like it did when we were moving stuff out of the house in Roseville to the RV and POD. Not the best feeling but it is not as much of an unknown as that Roseville departure.

Ya know if you were on Facebook you would have known some of this and I would not have had to spell it all out. Or maybe I would have...... hummmmmm.

Well my intent is to blog our journey. Tennessee is not the final part of our journey, we have a trip to Florida and Ohio. In Florida, we had some Citrus Heights, CA friends who spent the night with us in Texas while on their way to establish a new home in the Jacksonville area. Guess where the maps programs route us when we go from Bristol to Ocalla and Arcadia, Florida? Yep Jacksonville. Guess that will be a two day trip from now on. Also a Roseville friend moved just before we left, to North Carolina, so we have more to look up.

Do you see a pattern here? Many of the people I intend to visit are from CA. Many of them recently, like within the last year. Oh yea, I know others in Tennessee from Ca some years back who live along the way. I need to make some contacts with them so we can visit and they can fill us in on the ins and outs of the great state of Tennessee.

Well, time to quit messing around and get things ready so when 10 am tomorrow hits I will be hitting the road. Stay tuned, as I really really really, intend to keep updating this thing for some time now.
Hang on and I hope you enjoy our ride.
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