On the Road Again???????

We have a phone interview for a coastal Texas National Wild Life Refuge Area October through December 2013 so we are excited.  We would be giving van tours and working at a visitor center.  August 9th we will be told "come" or "we do not need you".  I have to wait.  We have been cleaning the RV and dreaming of traveling while applying on line for the few offerings that would suit us.  This is not the time of year to apply for positions for this winter.  And it seems this type of lifestyle has been discovered.  More people are applying so the pool of applicants increases.  If fate is with us we will be spending some of the winter in Texas.

Back in Connecticut - Bah humbug!!!!

The Nebraska evenings were the last fun things we did on our way back east.  John ended up at a clinic  with infected bites and an arm swollen up to the elbow.  I talked to my doctor at home and my meds were changed so I felt better but the rash/infection was not getting better.  John called Bryce telling them we were headed east and we headed to Connecticut post haste.  Traveling east is a blurr. We arrived July 4th in Woodstock.  The good thing about being east at this time is a former exchange student daughter was visiting with her family our Woodstock families and we got to meet Susse,her husband and sons.  It was almost 30 years since she was with us.  My how time flies!!!!!  They were off to Iceland a few days later so it was a quick visit.  We took the motor home to fireworks for Saturday July 7th so we had excellent seats and a cool place to wait out the crowd leaving. Susse's children seemed to have a good time and we were over 12 gathered to see the fireworks. 

Woodstock is in a heat wave and I hate the humidity.  It is now mid summer and I have no energy.  The doctor here put both John and I back on prednisone and the rash/bites are slowly healing but here I sit dreaming of Bryce.  My, what turns life brings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Red rock canyon on Route 12 heading to Bryce but we are east - phooey!



Susse and her boys can bring a smile to my face

Nebraska Chautaugua and no A/C

We are at Grand Island, NE at a Truck Stop.  But now the weather is humid and hot, not good for sweaty bites for they now itch but it has stopped spreading and started healing.  Two days ago we could not cool down our MH by the dash A/C.  The truck stop we happened to pull into has a huge place next to green grass where we can stay away from the trucks.  John thought our problem was just low freon but it was a motor pump.  After a gulp, gulp, $$$$$ they ordered the part.  It came today and we have air conditioning again. Horray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The truck stop has visitor info so we found out about lovely Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer just down the road.  We spent yesterday in air conditioned comfort viewing exibits and last night at the outdoor exhibit where they have old villages from log housing to a western 1870's railroad town complete with train.  The museum is having an old fashioned Nebraska Chautaugua free to the public.  A chautaugua is a old time gattering that has speakers, entertainers, etc.  We listened to pioneer music and two interpretures - Mark Twain and Willa Cather, both authors.  It was all about the pioneers trek west, just what we love to learn about!!!  So today we have A/C and will go back tonight for another Chautaugua.  We stayed for 4 nights in Grand Island, NE and enjoyed the nightly Chautaugua programs. We learned a lot of history - just what we love.  And again we just fell into the right spot!!

The museum streets were wooden

A rainbow was over the Motor Homes but it is hard to see

On East????

I went to a clinic and was given prednizone and an antiboitic.  It might be chiggers so we washed all the bedding in the MH and Emma's bedding, etc.  I sure hope this works.  We have been without air conditioning and at night I have had quite a time with the spreading of some kind of rash!!!???!!!  On day six I went to a clinic and now we are headed east.  My doc changed meds and I feel better so hopefully we have solved the problem.