Monday, October 14, 2013

About That Transition Time (October 14)

Dear Family and Friends,

Hello from Las Vegas! Roger and I continue to work toward our transition from the Tour (43 feet) into the Leisure Travel Van (Unity at 24' 7"). As you know from the last blog, we made a quick trip to a storage locker in Tucson, with the things that will not fit into the much smaller Unity. We will pick up the Unity on October 22 in San Marcos, California. Eventually (November) we will haul the storage  load to Ft. Worth where our surplus things will stay in storage as we travel our last year as full timers to the East coast.

Roger has been very busy planning the coming year. We will spend the Thanksgiving holidays with family in the Ft. Worth/Dallas area before heading east along the Gulf of Mexico. We intend to spend the winter months in Key West and then travel north to Maine and Canada, as the weather permits. We will drop back into the US in Michigan and then make our way back to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. We intend to drive around 10,000 miles. This is quite an ambitious plan!

In the meantime, we have enjoyed the Las Vegas sights. Though we have driven across the new bridge (Arizona to Nevada via the Hoover Dam) several times, we have never walked it. There is a wonderful pedestrian bridge that spans the Nevada State line to the Arizona State line. It was a great way to see the dam with the Colorado River behind it.

 Roger stands in front of Hoover Dam which holds back the Colorado River and Lake Mead.


 Arizona State sign

 Nevada State sign

 A picture of Lake Mead taken from the car on the way back to Las Vegas.

On Sunday, we decided to see the movie, "Captain Phillips." Imagine our surprise when we randomly chose a newly refurbished movie theatre with the most incredible reclining seats. Is this the wave of the future for movie theaters? There were lots of staff members to instruct us in the usage of these seats. Also, the theater has a no tolerance policy for talkers and cell phone users. By the way, "Captain Phillips" was outstanding. We walked away with an even greater appreciation of the Navy and the Seals who were instrumental in rescuing the Captain from Somali pirates.


We continue to spend our last week in Las Vegas, leaving for San Marcos on Monday. Thanks for checking in with us.

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