Dispatch from the Road 2024

  The Great Summer Roadtrip of 2024 Sunday July 21, 2024 We’ve been home exactly a week today and it’s been a busy one. Between decommissioning the RV, getting the lawn maintenance done and of course the reason we rushed home, my eye injection. The time has been flying by.  BTW, thanks for asking, the new meds my eye doc uses lasted for the entire trip without any negative vision problems. The reaction to the meds immediately after the shot is not fun, but I can deal with it.  The Malpass Brothers Looking back on the trip, it all went pretty much as planned, We started the trip with a four days camping at the Malpass Brothers Bluegrass Festival at Denton Farm Park in North Carolina, what fun that was! On our way west we visited both of Millie’s sisters, stopped in Pigeon Forge and Nashville Tennessee before dropping down to Hot Springs Arkansas. Mesa Verde Out west we toured I think seven geologic wonders, most of them National Parks in Utah, along with a couple National Monument sites

  Roswell New Mexico UFO Museum Thursday July 11, 2024 We have one week to cross the country, for me to make my eye doctor appointment. I estimate it will take us five days to run almost 2000 miles. We plan to drive at least half the route on state and county roads. There are one or two places where we will take a section of interstate highway but for the most part, we will shun them. Today we drove south from Los Alamos New Mexico to Roswell, home of the 1947 UFO crash. Roswell is milking it as a tourist attraction, conspiracy theorists say the government is covering it up and the government says it never happened. Do you believe? We stopped in town and visited the UFO Incident Museum and got a pizza for lunch before continuing our journey. From Roswell we would be traveling almost due east on Highway 380. The terrain gradually changed from the deserts of New Mexico to the plains of Texas. We saw lots of farming in Texas, but (IMHO) the green fields were only possible because of irrig

  Thursday July 11, 2024 It’s been a while since I posted to the Dispatch, but yes, we are still on the road. Well, not really on the road, we have been camping in Dave and RaeAnne’s driveway for 21 days. Kamp Kolman That’s a little longer than we had planned, but as you may remember we diverted to Los Alamos several days ahead of schedule because of the bearing failure in one of the front hubs. As a preemptive repair, I had both the left and right hubs replaced, it would have been nice if that was the end of it. Unfortunately, the front hub bearing noise was masking a similar noise from the rear differential. Long story short, the truck went back to the shop to have the rear differential pinion bearings replaced. RPM Automotive in Los Alamos Enough truck talk, it’s all good now. We enjoyed our time with the family, Millie and Rae Anne got to do some mother/daughter shopping trips to Santa Fe. We helped with the kids when we could, this was mostly car service picking them up or droppin