dec 19th 2015

Hi,
 Well we have stopped early for a change. so trying to get you all caught up.  we left Tuesday at 0500 and drove to Hershey,PA and parked in front of Linda's sons and hooked up thru his Christmas lights. Had a good time seeing the kids open their gifts , having supper, and then off to Gavin(grandsons) basketball game. back to the rig and a early nite. left abot 8am and drove to Bristol,TN(long day). nice park but we just needed supper and a place to sleep. we had made crockpot meals at home and made up meal packages with out vacuum sealer. just toss on in boiling water and presto a hot simple meal. left there at 0730 in the rain and drove across all of TN and stopped in North Little Rock,AK for the nite. another long haul. the weather had cleared and we found a city rv park right on the Arkansas river directly across from the Clinton Library. The gated park had access to a walking bridge that was all lite up with christmas colors that we could have walked across and gone to the Clinton stuff but it was to late. Great little park right in town. we have had a couple of issues with the truck alarm system going off and of course it did at 2:30 in the morning. I stepped to the rv door and pushed the remote button and it stopped , but I think everyone could see my truck lights flashing and the horn blowing until I got it to stop. well to bad, they don't know me anyway. we left the early and drove to Joey and Brenda Paradis's place in Mineola TX (about 80 miles east of Dallas). had a great diner with them. Brenda is a wonderful cook and the both are great hosts. wish we could have spent more time with them. let at 073 this morning and have stopped in Odessa, TX for the night. early day as I was getting tired and Linda said her legs were falling asleep. got hooked up and finely have a miniute to relax.  the piping in the camper bathroom has a bad fitting and when we hook up to park water it causes it to leak, so we hook up and get the waterheater filled and heated then shut off until nighttime, and then just leave towels on the floor to soak up the clean water. will fix it after we get to Picacho and moved into our new home. I trust that I will find time.  The Flury's (the hot air balloon folks have already called and need me on Tuesday AM but I said I really couldn't help unless it would cause then to not be able to fly and if that happened to call and I would go.  This is a real quick trip across the country and neither of us really want to try it this quickly again, as there is so much we still want to see and do. We had decided that we wanted to be in Picacho before Christmas so get settled in and get to the grocery store before Christmas. so the push is on. we leave here in the am and go to FT Bliss in Elpaso,TX for the night and see out friends Donna and Johnnie that we had so much fun with last year in AZ. They are there for a while as his work demands that he go differeent places for certian times. the on the PPRV on monday am.  will try and get more to this blog later this coming week.  hugs the speedy driver.