Travels by CAML

While drafting my weekly email to cousin Bob I thought about expanding the audience, adding my communications to our blog -  CAML's CASITA - travels & travails  - rather than sending them only to Bob.  With that in mind, here goes.... It has been a good week. First and foremost Melanie's remodeled eye got an A+ from her doc Friday afternoon and we now await her second cataract surgery on Bastille Day; two weeks after that we hope to be on the road to Nova Scotia. At least we'll head in that direction and wait to see how the politicians handle recommendations of their epidemiologists. This week we became 'Friends' of the World War II Museum in New Orleans; now we can visit the museum on a daily basis but avoid the daily admission fees. We went to the Museum Thursday around noon, took the St Charles Avenue streetcar down to Lee Circle (you may recall Lee's statue was removed this past year) and walked two blocks to the Museum. It was a very warm muggy day and ...

Monday, May 31st, Memorial Day, we hitched up the Casita, again, and drove to Livingston, Texas (in Polk County) where we had scheduled our drivers' license exams - in TX you have to apply for your driver's license in your county of residence. We stayed for three nights in the Escapees Rainbow Park, where all our mail goes before being forwarded to us wherever we may be. We arrived early in the afternoon. It was quite warm and we ran our new A/C for the first time - it worked. June 1st - in the morning we registered our truck in TX and got new plates - the title will be mailed to us.  Since we are selling our mobile home (MI26 at the Royal Oaks Mobile Home Park in Dundee, FL) we have a bunch of things to attend to in connection with the sale: notifying the Park, arrangement for a check to come to New Orleans, switching the electricity service to the new owners, cancelling insurance, etc....  In the afternoon we went to the Library for internet access, we had joined when we wer...