After our motorhome burned in a storage fire back in 2014, we have come to understand that our plans are just that…’our’ plans. Plans can change…but you still need them.
On Wednesday we plan to go to church, and hit the road that night. The fridge will be turned on Monday morning, and Tuesday I will bring it by the condo to load up our clothing, food, etc. On Wednesday all we should have is our computers, a few toiletries, some dirty clothes, Skruffy, Marcia and myself. Hoping that Wednesday will be an easy day, it doesn’t take too much to secure the condo (disconnect TVs and appliances from outlets, shut down water heater, turn off water, plastic wrap over toilet bowls and tanks…stuff like that.)
I have two maps, which will remain private, which I made with planned stops for the trip to Citrus Heights. We MUST be there no later than the morning of the 29th…hoping to arrive on Wednesday, perhaps Tuesday night…but it is more likely we arrive Wednesday. So one map is for arriving on Tuesday, the other for Wednesday, with where we plan to stop each night. Both have us in Phoenix on Monday morning where we plan to have either an early breakfast or late breakfast/early lunch with our friend Laurie. Dad turns 90 on the 1st, mom’s birthday is on the 25th. In early June they celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary!
In May we do plan to do a trip which will probably include a short visit to the Santa Cruz / Monterey area, then over to Yosemite, and from there we ‘might’ go south and around to the east side of the Sierra’s, up to Tahoe and back to Citrus Heights. That is not shown on the above map…but is part of plans so far.
After the Anniversary, we will have about 6 weeks before my oldest son gets married in July over near Santa Rosa. During that time we plan to go up to Southwest Oregon, where we spent much of last summer. It is cool, not too full of people, and we really enjoyed that last year.
By August we plan to head east, going through Salt Lake City to visit my daughter, then take our time going through Colorado. I’ll have to visit my Doctor in Little Rock again this year, and will probably do that after visiting my son in Kansas City (along with other relatives), heading through Fort Smith for a visit with Marcia’s relatives, and then on to Little Rock. This appointment has not been made yet, so I have no ‘for sure’ time period yet…but most likely it will be in September. From Little Rock we plan to head up to Chicago, where we will probably camp in North West Indiana again, and visit with friends and relatives of Marcia’s up in that general area.
Marcia needs to renew her driver’s license by late September…and that is our plan as to when we get back into Florida. That can also be done online, so if we want to stay out longer, we can…but we are planning to be back in late September. So it will be a quick trip out to California…not so quick getting back. As always…I do much better about posting a blog while we travel than I do sitting in one place for extended time periods.
