Monday, February 8, 2010

Ready to Hit the Road!

We have spent the last week or so getting ready to head south to the desert country of Arizona. We decided to head out on Wednesday rather than Tuesday. The front furnace in the motorhome will not stay lit, so I am going to take it in to get fixed on Tuesday. The weather conditions down south are such that the furnace wil be needed in the late night and early mornings. But, right now it's about 15 degrees warmer than at home.
Kristin left this morning for a 4 month job at a kids camp in Austin Texas. From there she plans to go to another camp in Colorado for the summer. Hairold T. Cat is spending the next 10 weeks or so at Keith and Sheilas in Stanwood. He hasn't bitten anybody yet, and is starting to settle in. He was pretty ticked off when I brought him up on Saturday!
We should have a straight shot down I-5 to southern California as the warm weather appears to have eliminated the threat of snow in the Siskyous. We plan to spend an extra day in the bay area visiting relatives on my fathers side. Then we may spend an extra day at the California/ Nevada line with some friends who are spending some time there from Montana. We haven't seen them since we spent a year (94/95) in Billings. We may not get in to Apache Junction until Wednesday the 17th, but wer'e not in any rush. That still will give us about 2 weeks before our first baseball game. So for anybody who reads this, it's time to start paying attention as we will be updating at least on a weekly basis.
Ernie

1 comment:

Ron and Diane said...

Another adventure......at last!!!
I really look forward to these, and I can't believe that we will see a small part of it first hand and get to watch the chief editor at work.
I'm glad the weather is cooperating and you won't run into any really nasty stuff. Can't say the same for our weather, but than the sun did come out today, it didn't snow and I think it made it above freezing (if you don't count the wind chill), things are looking up.
Have a great trip and don't use up all the warm sunshine before we get there. Good friends, warm sun and a pina colada...what more can you ask for....Diane