January and February

We spent these two months in Sunny Southern California, although it was raining for about 3 weeks in Feb. We spent some time with our son Charles, and we were able to see most of our friends. Due to our being so tied up with doctor and dentist appointments, motor home repairs, etc. there were a few people we wanted to see and just did not get to visit this time, we feel bad about that, but we have to get on the road, trying to get to Perry Georgia by March 15th.

Joe became an Elk while we were in California and we spent some time at the Elks Lodge campground in Ontario CA. We have a friend, Jim Hicks, who is an Elk and he was Joe's sponsor. We attended several dinners at the lodge when we were camping there, and Jim and his wife Toni joined us for dinner a couple of times. Joe had his initiation into the Elks on Thursday Feb 26th and our plan was to leave for our trip on Friday the 27th.

We were able to spend time with some of our friends, we met for dinner a couple of times, and Joe played golf a few times. We were invited out to dinner on our last Wednesday in California with a few friends, Tim and Marcia, Ron and Bev, Tom and Sue, had some laughs, lots of fun and we will miss them a lot during our trip.

A lot of our time was spent getting some repair work done on our motor home, but I think it is pretty good shape now that we are starting out on our trip up the East coast. We got physicals out of the way and dental appointments done. We are in good shape, and we think the motor home is in good shape too. We are ready to go now.

We also spent a lot of time getting our '67 El Camino ready for a trip to Indiana. Joe sold his beautiful El Camino while we were in California. It was a difficult decision, but with us traveling 9 or 10 m0nths each year, we realized that it was not a good idea to have it in storage and only use it a couple of times each year. The new owner is a friend of ours so we will be able to visit the El Camino when we pass through Indiana. That is nice, however, I am not sure that made Joe feel much better while watching his long time friend being loaded on the truck.

We will keep you all posted on our trip across the Southern states and up the East coast. I will be entering things in this blog more often now that our lives are back to normal (if you call this crazy life normal)