Home Is Calling

I will do one last blog post this morning from Alamo, Texas. That’s right, tomorrow morning we plan to hook up this rig and head north. I know we will miss the warm weather down here, but after four months away, it is definitely time to go home!

We will spend a couple days in San Antonio with our Indiana friends before we go our separate ways. After that we will continue north as long as there are no blizzards, ice storms, torrential rains, flooding or tornados to worry about!

It seems we have been busy and yet I can’t really remember what we have done since my last post! We celebrated Betty’s birthday in Mexico with lunch and margaritas. As you may have heard, the violence along the border had escalated again, so that was our last trip across to Progresso.

We went to karaoke night at the hall. We went to a Minnesota pheasant feed and Carolyn brought her karaoke machine over so we had fun with that.

Curt has continued to golf quite often and I have been trying to learn every line dance I can before I have to leave!

We had Appreciation Day at the hall last Thursday. This is put on by Sun Communities which owns this park. It begins with rolls and coffee in the morning.

Next is the parade of states (everyone from each state walks around the hall with a flag bearer carrying their state flag.) It is fun to see how many people are here from each state. Consensus this year was that Iowa was the biggest delegation. Minnesota is very well represented as is Wisconsin. Colorado, Michigan and Missouri comprise a smaller portion of residents. North and South Dakota, and Nebraska have only a few We have one couple from Pennsylvania, one from New Hampshire, one from New York, one from Wyoming, one from Tennessee. Of course there are a few full time Texas residents, but most originally hailed from somewhere else. A catered chicken dinner was followed by entertainment: a senior clogging group danced (Winter Texans from another park), our Casa del Valle line dance group performed for about 30 minutes and a dance band. played at the end. Unfortunately I have no pictures of our line dance performance because while handing my camera to a friend, the settings got jiggled and all the pictures turned out blurry so I will include a picture I snapped one day at practice.

Today we celebrate another birthday and are going out to eat with friends. It will be a day for final packing up and saying goodbye. It will be sad and yet happy because we are going HOME!