Tifton, GA

Our month in Carrollton went by quickly. As usual we enjoyed spending time with Janice’s mom, sisters, brother in law, and a niece and nephew. We spent a lot of time playing games at the table this year. Janice and one of her sisters got to spend some time exploring the capabilities of her embroidery machine and I completed a few fixit projects. I was able to volunteer for a few days at the county soup kitchen and visit with a few old friends there. Our granddaughter who works in North Carolina drive over to visit for a couple of days and her mom and another granddaughter surprised her by traveling down from Iowa to see her.

Today we left Carrollton and stopped for the night at a Walmart in Tifton, GA. Nice weather for driving today. We stopped at a Mexican restaurant in Waverly Hall for a delicious lunch. Tomorrow we should reach our winter destination in Florida.

Chattanooga and Carrollton

 We arrived at Chattanooga on Wednesday which was a day sooner than we had planned. We parked for the night at a Walmart on the edge of town and had a quiet night. The fog was so thick Thursday morning that we could only see part of the front of the store from the motorhome. We waited for it to clear up before heading over to Bulldog Jeep Hardtop company to spend the next night in order to be there for our installation appointment early Friday morning. They were really nice to work with and did a great job on the installation of our new hard top on the Jeep. Our old soft top had broken zippers on all of the panels and was pretty useless to us. So far, we are loving the new top with it's doors that open on the sides and rear. Much quieter ride too.

After the installation, we continued on to our rvpark at Carrollton. We are in a park that we had checked out last year. They added new sites and we are in one of them. The park is very hilly and most of the sites are uneven. I spent part of yesterday picking up some lumber and making some ramps and blocks to help us level up. Now that that is done we are pretty happy with the park.

Paducah, KY

Bowling Green, MO to Paducah, KY today. Staying at Fern Lake RV Park. We’ve been eating leftovers out of the refrigerator for two days, so we walked across the street to a Waffle place for Supper. Nice weather all day today.

Headed South Again

Yesterday after Mass we had lunch and said goodbye to our Sioux City family and drove to Des Moines. We parked for the night in our daughter’s driveway, and drove the Jeep across town to say goodbye to our other daughter. Today we have stopped for the night at the Cozy C Rv park near Bowling Green , MO.

Headed Back to Sioux City

We had to say goodbye to our families in Bismarck after a good month with them. It is always fun and relaxing to be there with them but we must travel on.

We have stopped for the night at a Walmart in Aberdeen, SD and should be back to Sioux City tomorrow. Wind was out of the northwest today which was nice.

Bismarck, ND

 We had a really relaxing trip coming up here to Bismarck. Both days with a tail wind, no mechanical problems and good weather. As usual, checking into the KOA here was easy and sress free. We have enjoyed the week spending times with the family members up here. 

In the afternoon of our last full day in Sioux City, having finished all of the projects that I could there, I decided to relax and fly the drone for a little bit. After flying for awhile and having it approached by a group of turkey vultures I decided to try out the automatic homiing switch since I had never used it before. It immediately dropped like a stone behind a large tree. Whoops! I had pushed the wrong button and shut off the props. I searched the hillside behind the tree for quite awhile and Janice came out and helped search for quite awhile. As we were giving up the search our grandson, Reed, came down and spotted it right away up in the tree. I called a tree service and they came out Monday and retrieved it for me. 

 Looks fine in the picture, we will check it out when we get back to Sioux City.

        

One of our granddaughters from Des Moines made us a hand painted slice of a log to decorate our motorhome entrance. It really looks nice. Thanks Larissa!

Looks like warm weather here this week.

Aberdeen, SD

We left Sioux City this afternoon and drove to Aberdeen, SD. His is one of the few times that we have headed to North Dakota with a tail wind. We are parked for the night at a Walmart and will head on to Bismarck in the morning.