We’re now getting ready to leave Barstow KOA. We spent two days here catching up on things like laundry and grocery shopping. We’re glad to leave the hot desert and go on to Bonelli St. Park in San Dimas, CA. It’s near Gus so we have reservations for a week. The temperatures have been in the 70’s. I sure hope that holds.

We’re taking our time this morning as we only have about 100 miles to go. We are going to fill up with propane here before we leave. We already went for a walk with the dogs and let them play in the dog park for a while. They have been unbelievably good travelers. The hardest thing for all of us has been adjusting to the 2 hour time change. Every clock in this rig has a different time on it and the TV shows we watch come on 2 hrs earlier.

I’m watching out the window as the other campers are also getting ready to leave. RV travelers are generally really nice people. It’s fun to talk to them about where they’ve been and where they’re going. Many are traveling with dogs who for the most part, are friendly too.

We’ve been to Bonelli several times and we love it, even though we’ll pay the most there of any campground. We’ll fill up with gas before we leave Barstow and being in CA, that will cost a pretty penny as well.

Well, we’re off!!! We’re really enjoying this trip.

We had a wonderful time in Laramie and Gillette! We got to see one grandson, Mason Jr, graduate from the University of Wyoming and one from Campbell County High School in Gillette, WY.

While in Gillette, our son, Mason took us to Buffalo where he’s building a house to sell. It was a beautiful ride and a beautiful house. We’re so proud of him. He also cooked us dinner 3 nights in a row. It was so much fun spending time with the family. Mason’s wife, Amy, is super special!

We headed out Thursday morning and made it as far as Rawlins, WY before it started to sleet and got really cold. We stopped and got groceries and gassed up and then spent the night at a KOA. We got started at 8:00 this morning so we’re making up for lost time. Oh, I forgot to mention we got our levelers fixed while in Gillette, so that’s good.

We have so enjoyed our trip so far. Now on to CA for Gus’s 95th birthday.

I’m 74 years old and I don’t know where We’re going to sleep tonight. Every morning when I wake up in the RV, I ask myself where will we be when we go to bed tonight. Sometimes we have planned RV parks like when we get to specific destinations, but like today, we don’t know where we will be when it’s time to stop for the night.

We stayed last night in a park in Perry, OK. We got a pretty early start this morning leaving by 8:00. We have a little over 700 miles to go in 4 days. That’s quite a ways for us. With walking the dogs, stopping for lunch and gas, etc. We usually drive around 250 miles a day.

Yesterday was a good one. The weather was great and the RV seems to be purring right along. I had a very nice Mother’s Day. I heard from all 4 of the kids which was pretty special. Stay tuned. Who knows what today will bring.

We left Texas a week ago yesterday for a much anticipated RV trip. Our first stop…Tuscaloosa, Alabama for our granddaughter, Liv’s college graduation. I can’t tell you how exciting it was to see her get her diploma. We also got to see son, Craig, DIL April, and granddaughter, Charlie.

Our next big occasion is our grandson, Mason’s college graduation in Laramie, WY.

We left Tuscaloosa and got as far as Oxford, MS before Kip became aware of a problem with the brakes. He checked the brake fluid and it was low, so we stopped at a truck stop and bought some. The brakes worked okay for a short period of time, but then he noticed they were soft again, so we stopped for the night at a campground in Oxford. We ended up staying three nights there, but we were fortunate to find a mechanic that comes to you. He was able to fix the leak in the brake line, but he told us we had to flush out all of the brake fluid we had put in because it was the wrong kind and it could cause severe damage to our brake system.

We drove to Memphis the next day and took it to a Ford truck place where they flushed it all out. We had the RV in the shop the entire day so we spent the day in the car with our 2 dogs. We did spend 2 hours at a beautiful dog park so they got to run around without a leash.

We spent the night in Memphis at a beautiful RV park right next to the Mississippi River. Today, we’re on the road again and it’s a beautiful day.

RVing is fun, but you have to be able to roll with the punches because the unexpected will always happen.