Travels
|
Of blizzards and barking My friend Diane's mother moved to assisted living last year. Diane spent most of Christmas in Dallas, going through her old home, boxing and sorting. And now, in Diane's spring break (she's a kindergarten teacher), we are driving to Dallas to bring boxes back. Complicating all this was last Thursday's blizzard, which left feet of snow, closing even fast food restaurants.
Friday I discovered the RV (my Meandering Moose) had been blocked in by a tired snowplow driver, who had dumped his load behind the rig, which was in his way on a side street. Nonetheless, I got my stuff into the RV, and a kindly neighbor shoved the piles of ice onto the sidewalk so I could back out. And Saturday morning Diane and I, plus Dolphin (the saber-toothed tiger) and Sallie (a novice RVer), headed south on the interstate.
The snow actually wasn't a major hindrance by then, though we had calving-glacier action from the several inches of ice on the roof! Other drivers were giving us wide berth as chunks of ice and drifts of snow swept down on the highway.
Sallie, who barks at anything dangerous (bikes, dogs, squirrels, snowplows, schoolbuses, ...), has added small, boxy, black vehicles to her list, going crazy in the front seat (with Diane as her seat cushion) when we were passed by one. Horses and cattle also warrant wild barking, as did a field full of what looked to me like archery targets (don't ask; I have no idea!).
We pulled into the Amarillo, Texas, KOA well after dark last night. Also well after the office had closed (we lost an hour of clock time when we crossed the Texas border). Diane guided me as I backed into our soggy site, and we set up the beds and collapsed happily into them.
Sallie insisted on going outdoors at that point, and found lovely smells to check out. Just behind the Moose, hopping lazily around the puddles, were three of the biggest rabbits I've ever seen! Jackrabbits, Diane informed me, the kind that metamorphize into jackalopes for tourists. And we slept happily all night; Sallie even allowed Dolphin to cuddle with me in bed, a first.
Share This Blog:
|
Posts
on a rock, by the lake ...
Beagles and felines and me, oh, my!
RV Saga
Choosing
Look at my map!
“Yo ho ho, the wind blows free” in Mystic, CT
God’s whales
Ed Mathieu, moose whisperer
Trust …
Pooh Sticks in Kansas
Moose plans!
CCWC 2013
The Moose is loose!
“angels unaware”
Sacramento train station … yawn!
Pay attention to my accounts!
one last camping trip!
A Delightful Trip
Going on a bat?
My friend Shannie
morning fun!
Buffalo Wesleyan Church
Cascades National Park, homeward
“wherever I lodge”
the view
Cascades National Park
Guardian beagle?
Lewis and Clark Caverns
Beware!
Let’s get this show on the road!
Happy camper!
Israel Miracles
He is not here!
Camel riding
jet lag
Meditation
Garden of Gethsemane
Where …
The Great I AM
Abraham’s Tent
Wednesday—Jordan River
Caesarea, Zippori, Nazareth, Megiddo …
Israel—1st day
Tomorrow … tomorrow!
Beautiful feet
Wings of the morning
Countdown …
Ah-whoo and sniff!
17 more days!
Pilgrims, Elephants, Buffalo—what is real?
Israel factoids
Traveling old lady
Going to Israel
fall color?
Small world!
Where Can I Go?
Mitchell, SD
Valentine, NE
Precision Repair in Big Timber, MT
Scenic byway
hideously horrible, absolutely wonderful writing conference!
the tire guy
Friends, Truman, and books
Rescuing angels
Brown County leaves!
tune: “Fairest Lord Jesus”
Synesthesia 3
Niagara Cave, Harmony, MN
Synesthesia 2
Synesthesia
I’ll show her!
A New Toy!
Popular doggie!
New friends from Alberta
Nevada morning
Use it and pack it
Going …
Friends along the way
Idle conversations …
I’ll rest content, when my trip is done!
De Smet, SD
Red River Zoo, Fargo, ND—nice!
Whether the weather …
Prairie Dog Central RR in Manitoba
An island, just for me?
Aaron Provincial Park, Ontario
A delightful day
Sing praise!
Unexpected kindness
Emus—ah-wooooof!!!
If I were a moose …
Okopogo
Trip reading
Drive-drive-drive
Our morning elk
CCWC in Estes Park
from the Meandering Moose
May!
Writing Away, Lavinia Spalding
Northwest haven
Office picnic
Memory lane?
Visiting Camp Lake Hubert
Dolphin the Dragon
Plum Creek
Corn Palace
Ready to go!
Oh, fun!
“anti-microbial”
Home {yawn}
KOA authors
Oregon Christian Writers poetry class
What a day!
Decorating tips
Dolphin’s comments
Authors
Music at the Mug!
Go, girl!
“Where Go the Boats?”
Campgrounds and trailer parks
Highway dangers
June!
Blowin’ in the wind
DABS
Bluebonnets
Of blizzards and barking
Home!
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Group-think
A good conference
OCW: 1st day
OCW
Surprise!
Corps of Discovery
Oregon Coast Aquarium
Sea Lion Caves
American Flyer
a sandwich day …
Cirque de Soleil
My plans
t•i•r•e•d
Headin’ out
I’m off in the morning!
Why we’re glad to be home
Döppelganger?
Little moose feet
In a mirror?
Hero
pant … pant …
Hot and windy
Sun-scorched land
Writing conference
Vacation planning
Planning, planning …
just a little NE jaunt?
Trip plans …
Beginnings
… in a strange land …
Kansas
Ha!
Use it and pack it
Wait, I’m not ready!
Drive-by Church—God’s Plan
Not a Classy Author—But I Sure Do Have Fun!
Trials and Tribulations … Plus Mercy Galore!
Of Badlands and good lands and lands along the way …
of bear teeth and beagle bladders
First forest … first park … praise the Lord!
Ridin’ the trail in the hail
My Wolf Park family
2000+ miles of boring interstate, with bright spots!
Mitchell, Canada, and the failure of Dolphin’s plot
To Mitchell SD, with a supper stop on the way
hail, the mighty hunter!
Hello world!
Trust
Trust …
|
