We have made our escape!!!!

First I want to bring everyone up to date on my brother Joe. He is back home and doing great. He had an appointment last Wednesday with his oncologist and all his tests were normal or close to normal. I guess that means the lymphoma is inactive which is great news. His next appointment will be in a month.

Now for us!!!

Last Wednesday the temperature was 14 degrees at 12AM and continued to fall all day until it was -1 degrees at 11:59PM. We had about 7 inches of snow with wind gusts of 41 MPH. It’s time to leave!!!!


Thursday we went out to eat with our friends Jerry, Donna, John and Pat. This will be our last get together until next April. We will sure miss them. The next morning Jerry and John came to the garage and helped me load the motorcycle into the pickup. After that was done Donna said "maybe you guys should head south today (Friday) rather than wait until tomorrow morning". Thanks for the suggestion Donna, because an hour later I called Sandy at home and asked, would she be OK with leaving today after she got her hair cut. Without much hesitation we were rushing around getting things done and were on the road at 3:30PM heading south. When we left the temperature was 16 degrees, but along the way it got down to 4 degrees. The roads were clear all the way, but south of Waverly, Iowa there were a lot of vehicles in the ditch from the earlier storm, including one semi that went into the ditch backwards. When we finally stopped for the night it was midnight and we were in Bowling Green, Iowa where the temperature was a balmy 31 degrees.
Saturday morning when we left Blowing Green it was still 31 degrees. Again, the roads were clear until we stopped at a truck wash in Blytheville, AK to get the salt washed off the RV. We left the truck wash and it started to rain a couple miles down the road and continued to rain to West Memphis. So much for a clean RV, but at least the Minnesota salt is off. The temperature was 42 degrees when we stopped.
Sunday will be a rest day for us, Monday we are going to find the "Ghost of Elvis". For the next couple of days we are staying at the Tom Sawyer’s RV Park in West Memphis. We can sit and watch the barges pass by as the river is only 100 feet away. Nice park to just sit and relax. Tuesday we will head over to Red Bay, AL and have some work on the motorhome at the factory. If all goes well we will be at Cypress Woods RV Resort in Fort Myers before New Years. Dale and Mary have graciously offered us the use of their site until they get down the middle of January. After which we will have to pay the big bucks to stay there. Then we have reservation at Disney's Fort Wilderness Campground from 2-5-10 to 2-12-10. We have not decided where we are spending the rest of February but we will be heading to the Savanna, GA area in March before heading home in April.
We will post periodically as we go along.
Until next time,
Dave and Sandy