(Temporary Backup) Cabool, MO

Our stay at our daughter’s new house and property near Cabool, MO. turned out to be longer than expected. We enjoyed our time with them until they had to go back to North Dakota and then after they left, we stayed for a couple more weeks or so and just relaxed. It was kind of like a vacation. Now we are on the road again and stopped for the night at the Rv park behind Lambert’s Restaurant in Sikeston, MO.

Canton, MO

I have really fallen behind in my blogging. After leaving Sauk Centre we stayed in Bismarck, ND for a month visiting our oldest daughter and her family. We ate a lot of food and played a lot of games. The month passed quickly as usual and we moved on to our daughter’s house in Sioux City to finish up some projects there after an overnight stop at the Walmart in Aberdeen, SD. Again we ate a lot of food, played some games, and checked several projects off on the list. After three weeks or so the weather started to cool off and it was time to go. We stopped at our daughter’s house in Des Moines for a couple of days and stayed for 6 days, again eating a lot of food and playing some games. I enjoyed seeing some of the grandkids basketball and soccer games and we met our newest great granddaughter! Goodbyes are always hard and we left there this morning. We fought a headwind all day today and are stopped for the night at the Walmart in Canton, MO.

Sauk Centre, MN

We ran into what looked like a big rainstorm coming this afternoon so I pulled into a rest area that God provided just as the rain started. It turned out to be quite a wind and rain storm, so we waited it out in the rest area.

Afterwards the sky cleared up and we drove on to spend the night here at the Walmart in Sauk Centre.

Wausau, WI

We made it to the generator repair place shortly after lunch and they looked at it right away. They had the part that they needed and had it fixed in an hour or so. We decided to stay overnight there anyway and start out again in the morning. Mom found an antique store to go look through and then we had a delicious supper at a Chinese restaurant called the Happy Wok.

Our campsite:

Escanaba, MI

Time flies and it was time to leave. A long day for us driving and we overnighted at Walmart in Escanaba, MI. Our generator has a diesel fuel leak and we have an appointment to have it looked at tomorrow morning in Wausau, WI. We are driving there today and are supposed to be able to park overnight there.

Caro, MI

The next day we made it to our son’s house in Caro, MI. We were able to spend some time with the kids and grandkids and I had a list of projects. Brendan and I rebuilt a neighbor’s deck, installed some controls on some ceiling fans, and tore out and rebuilt a garage wall.

Portage, IN

Catching up the blog a month late. We spent the next night at the Bass Pro Shop in Portage, IN. It seemed like a long day to get there with a lot of slow downs from road construction. I walked over to Hooters and picked up supper. 

Waterloo, IA

Time has flown by! The next day after Osceola, we drove to Des Moines and stopped to have the oil changed in the motor home and the generator. Then off to Saylorville Lake for our volunteer position there. It Wes a busy time there. My job at the lake was affected by changes at the maintenance buildings (preparing for tearing it down and replacing it) and the lake reaching flood levels. A storm tore off our patio awning. One of our daughters there in Des Moines was preparing their house for sale and packing for a move to Alabama. We spent some time there helping with both of those projects. The house sold, we loaded three pods and they left for Alabama with their camper. We enjoyed visiting with our other daughter and her family doing the annual neighborhood rummage sale and their son invited us out to eat a couple of times at some very nice restaurants. We went to one of their daughter’s house to fix an electric outlet giving us a chance to see her house and go out to lunch with her. They took us out to a Chinese buffet before we left town. 

The beginning of July brought us to Sioux City. We had sold our house there to our daughter and her family that had been renting it from us. We parked in the driveway there and spent the month of July. Our usual annual medical and financial appointments along with repair projects and time spent playing games and enjoying the grandkids.

That brings us to the first of August and time to head to our son’s house in Michigan. We left Sioux City yesterday and stopped for the night at the Walmart in Waterloo, IA.

Osceola, IA

We originally planned to stay for a week in Farmington, AR at the Ozark Canopy RV Park, but we were enjoying our time there and decided to extend our “vacation”. We extended or time there by 9 more days. We did some flea marketing, some sightseeing, some laundry, and just enjoyed time together doing some puzzles, and playing games. On Saturday we drove to Nevada, MO and went to Mass on Saturday night. We overnighted at the Walmart and had supper next door at Sharkey’s Pub. Today we drove to Osceola, IA and are overnighting at the casino RV park there.

Sallisaw, OK

We spent Monday night at a Walmart in Sweetwater, TX, and the next night T the Winstar Casino RV park on the Texas/Oklahoma border. Tonight we are at a Walmart in Sallisaw, OK. 

Van Horn, TX

 It is windy here in Van Horn. We went to Holy Thursday Mass last night and then had a late supper at Wendy's. I spent most of yesterday changing the check valve on the output of the water heater so we could have hot water again. Only took three trips to the local hardware store. We plan to stay here until Monday. We are predicted to have a good tail wind on Monday. We are at the Wild West RV Park, it is a small graveled RV park, but very friendly and clean. A motorhome parked next to us last night that spent the winter in the RV park across the street from us in Yuma. Janice got to play with some of their national award winning dogs. 

Deming, NM

Stopped for the night last night at the Walmart in Deming, NM and today drove to Van Horn, TX. We will be here until Monday. Our hot water quit flowing today. Hopefully I can fix it tomorrow.

This a huge statue of a road runner overlooking Las Cruces, NM at a scenic overlook where we stopped.

Heading North Again

We enjoyed our winter in Yuma. We took a couple of Jeep trips out into the desert to visit some old mines, took a cruise on the river, toured the historic Yuma prison, Toured a mine at an historic mining town, and participated in the park games and activities. After learning how to us the wood lathe, I was able to complete 10 bowls. We may go back some day.

Today we left Yuma and are headed North again. We are stopped for the night at the Pima County Fairgrounds RV Park near Tucson, AZ.