Where has the time gone?

I decided to get back on track and continue to journal our travels. As you can see it's been a few months since my last post. A lot has happened to us and the family during this time. I'll try to catch you up on the last few months events.

We spent all of September in Creede. CO. What a wonderful time we had watching the fall changing of the Aspins happen right before our eyes. When we got there everything was an emerald green. Then by the 2nd week, the green started to fade and the yellows, oranges and brown hues started to appear. Every morning we'd walk out of our door, look up to the mountains and just be amazed by the glorious colors. It was great to see the full thing happen.

There were 2 Excel rallies held while we were in Creede. First it was the Colorado group and then the New Mexico group. All in all there were some 80 Excels there over the 2 weeks. We really had a fun time with everyone. We even made plans to catch up with a few during the winter in the Rio Grande Valley.

The fishing in Creede was fabulous. Our fridge was full of Rainbow trout when we left Colorado. We finally finished it all just a few weeks ago. It sure was good.

We then spent October and November helping our friend Joy Sierra get her house and property ready for sale. We were able to stay on her property with our rig during this time. It was great to help her achieve what almost seemed like an impossible task. We sure made a lot of runs to the dump. I actually wore out two sets of leather gloves.

With all that was going on we just had to take a 'vacation'. early November found us in Cancun at our favorite place on the Mayan Riviera. We were there for a week with our good friend, Barb & Howard, from MN. We were very lucky to being missed by the last hurricaine. It passed just to the east of Cancun. We wound up with two days of rain and then a lot of clouds during the week. We were able to take a side trip to the Mayan ruins. That was really something to see. All in all, it was a nice break from making 'dump runs'.

October also brought a big change to us. While we were in Creede, we met Virgil & Jo. They are also Full Time RV'ers and use a HDT to pull their 5th wheel. Needless to say, I asked for some help to get some questions answered about their setup. We had some issues with our truck during our recent trips through the mountains of Colorado. I was beginning to think that we were going to have to look at a larger truck to insure our safety in pulling our trailer.

Well, we wound up buying a new truck, selling our old truck and buying a Smart car all within a two week period. The Dear Lord had taken care of everything for us. We just knocked on the doors and they flew open real easy. We found a '06 Volvo 670, 465 hp, 13 speed, that was really clean in Rochester, MN. I flew up to see it and wound up buying it. From there I drove it to Herrin Welding in Kilgore, TX for a make-over.

Larry Herrin did his magic so that we'd be able to put the Smart car on the trucks back and haul the trailer wherever we went. That was a six week project and finally finished up the 1st week of December. Roseann and I drove out to Kilgore in the Smart car, LilBit, and picked up the truck, now named BigBit. We loaded LilBit on the new bed and headed back to Albuquerque to pick up our 5th wheel. Two days later we were off to New Braunfels, TX to see our daughter Jean and her family for the holidays.

We spent Christmas with Jean and Marshall's family. What a fun time we had. We stayed at Fort Sam Houston FamCamp for the time. I tried fishing but it was just too cold.

We left for Corpus Christi on December 28th. We needed to get warm. Were we ever in for a surprise. Rain, Rain, Fog and more Rain. We spent the month of January there and only had about seven nice days where we were warm. UGH! No fishing in Corpus Christi. Every day that was nice we went exploring the area.

We did find that we could get all the fresh shrimp that we wanted to eat. That was a huge benefit for both of us. We did have fun though, even with the foul weather. On January 28th we headed further south to Alamo, TX in the Rio Grande Valley for hopefully warmer weather.

Well that brings us up to the present. We are now at the Casa de Valle RV park in Alamo, TX. Guess what? The weather hasn't changed. It is still rainy & foggy most of the time. It's been a little warmer here but still not warm enough. This weekend is supposed to be sunny and warm. We can only hope.