Travels by CAML

 I know I have been remiss, not posting soon after we arrived in New Orleans. Our last day on the road we did almost 400 miles, the most with the trailer so far. It was quite rainy with the expected increase in traffic as we moved through Houston and on into east Texas and Louisiana. Got in around 3pm and slowly started to unpack.  Now, having been here for a week+, we are enjoying a) all the greenery after a winter of brown Arizona desert and b) the cool but spring like weather. We are slowly catching up with friends and family, have dined out once, and are working our way through a list of medical appts. Current plans are to head to Florida in early April and spend a few weeks in Dundee and environs. I don't plan to post about that trip. We'll be back in New Orleans for the rest of May and, if Melanie decides to get her cataracts taken care of, we'll be here through June before beginning a ramble, with trailer, toward New England.  We'd love to hear from you, about yo

Wednesday evening 4-14-21  We left Green Valley bright and early Tuesday morning and, according to plan, drove to El Paso where we stayed overnight, then up early this morning and on to Ozona, TX where we are camped this evening. Tomorrow we're off to the Stephen F. Austin State Park  for what we hope will be our last night on the road for this leg of our spring and summer travels. Then we'll be in New Orleans for three weeks - a lovely time of year there. We've been covering around 350 miles per day, averaging 50 mph what with gas stops, pit stops, food stops, etc..., we could probably do 450 but why??? Traffic hasn't been too bad, the weather has been cloudy which is nice when putting on the miles. Having internet access every evening makes it easy to keep up with business, friends, and family and, since I've made our blogspot part of my email signature anyone that wants can keep track of what we've been doing.

Welcome Green Valley (AZ). This was our two hours of snow for the winter of 2021. But now we're well into spring. We've taken the Casita into Tucson, had the AC unit replaced, a heat strip installed (that gives us an alternative heater to the propane furnace), the propane tanks charged, wheel bearings packed, and a power cutoff switch placed inline between the battery and several small components that drain it all the time e.g. a carbon monoxide sensor.... We plan to take four days getting to New Orleans and look forward to staying in some more Texas state parks along the way. We booked them several months ago; our experience last fall was that if you don't book early you don't get in - due to only half the spaces being used in order to maintain social distancing a la COVID. As more get vaccinated and things reopen that may change. We shall see. Any way, we're out of here Tuesday and will be blogging from time to time throughout the summer. Travel plans include New