2014 November | The Road Home

Lunchtime walk

Bear and I have been walking at a wonderful venue: Coller Wildlife Area. There are three entrances several miles from home base with miles of not bad road to walk or Jeep or 4 wheel, but we park the Jeep and walk along the Rio Grande.

Full moon

The branches I intended…the wire, I couldn’t help.

Full moon.

***RV notes: Propane furnace won’t light and previous fix of starting engine did not resolve. The frig does not show a fault like it did last time the furnace failed. Fortunately it is not super cold and I have a heat pump for when the temp is above 40 (9 a.m. – 7:30/8:00 p.m.), electric heaters and a floor heating system with the engine. We’ll be fine until Wednesday when we have an appointment at a shop.

***Auggie and Bear saw the vet here today. Routine stuff that I ran out of time for before I left home. All well and a very nice vet.

Hopefully a calmer night today and day tomorrow – Friday!

Moon over South Fork

On the way to dinner…

Moon over South Fork.

Settling in

Three nights and I’m finally feeling really rested. Except for the very windy night before the last leg, I’ve slept well, but juggling travelling, work, rv stuff and thinking about Bear and Auggie…it subtly catches up.

Auggie is doing much better than I anticipated at being an indoor cat for the trip. It helps that the inside of the motorhome is kind of a cat “jungle gym”…

… lots of things to climb, jump onto and into, go under, etc.

And plenty of windows up high to watch the goings on in the neighborhood: deer, turkeys, dogs, cats, people and a lot of birds.

Bear keeps an eye out mostly from the dash where he also keeps me company when I’m working.

We are all settling in to a different routine and enjoying the change and time with family.

Last Leg: Colorado City to South Fork

This is going to be short.

The drive today was short: 174 miles or so but 150 on a 2 lane over a mountain pass.

BUT, last night, the wind!!! It blew so hard that the power was off and on and I finally brought slides in to decrease the rocking and the noise. Every time I drifted off, some noise woke me or Auggie or Bear who were also restless because of the noise.

The wind finally died down 2:00 a.m. ish but I’m not sure if it was 2:00 DST or the fall back 2:00.

I slept soundly until 5:00 a.m. fall back time but did not feel at all rested. The skies in my travel direction looked black and the wind was gusting, but weather looked to get worse so I got going ASAP.

It was windy in spots and rainy, but no snow. Not as bad as I feared and with a supply stop arrived at my folks shortly after 1:00 p.m. All was situated quickly and we had a wonderful afternoon relaxing and watching football AND enjoying Bill’s margaritas and guacamole followed by my mother’s Mac ‘n Cheese and Bill’s special beans for supper.

Dinner was extra early for my benefit and I ran out of steam about 5:15 p.m.

Bear, Auggie and I are all well, settled into our cozy spot (see Instagram) and looking forward to sitting here and being with family.

I’m off to bed.

Below, a few scenes from the road: