Baby It's Cold Outside!

Started out from Little Rock, AR on Saturday morning. It was a little later than we like, but hey, at least we were on the road! :-) NLR Diesel did a great job in getting our old radiator out and the new one in, they were just a little more laid back than we ex-Californian’s are used to! Made it to Oklahoma City, OK where we spent the night. We thought it was cold in Little Rock, but it was colder in OK City! The temps at night were low, low 20’s! Yikes! It was pretty nippy when we started out on Sunday a.m. The transmission temp of the motorhome was ONLY 31 degrees! Finally made it to the low – mid 40’s by the time we got here…Tucumcari, NM! It’s supposed to be in the low teens tonight here as well! Just keeps getting colder…until we get back to So. California that is! Just doesn’t seem like Christmas Day though when you have to have the a/c on because the temps are in the 80-90’s! Saw that there is a “chance” of snow showers here tonight! What? The entire time we were in Arkansas, Don wore shorts! It got mighty cold, but there he was in shorts! I didn’t think he was going to change into long pants until we got back into California, but guess what? This morning he put them on! Just went to take Tess out and guess what he asked for? A jacket! I think the temperature (or maybe it’s the altitude) is beginning to get to him! :-)

Had an e-mail message that one of our camping friends, Chuck Bashaw had passed away. He had been suffering from cancer for awhile now. While you always hate to have anyone pass away, I cherish the thought that at least they are no longer suffering. To have “quality” of life means a lot to me. Chuck was always one of the first that would volunteer and he was always one to help many of our single or older members when they needed help – in any way! Chuck and his wife, Norma were charter members of our camping chapter, Kountry Kampers so we’ve spent lots of campouts with them! Chuck was our best fire tender! He loved to feed the campfires often to Norma’s consternation! Don and I will miss Chuck!