Good Bye winter cold...

OK....... Now that's more like it!!!!!

After Christmas I had began making piles of stuff that needed to go back to the desert...  On Thursday, I loaded all that stuff out into the garage... It was below freezing out there, so I put it into one of the cars...

Friday morning I loaded the final stuff and the stuff in the garage into the Wrangler and locked the place up for the rest of the winter...  It was 11 AM before I was on the road, but the sun was shining and it warmed up quickly as I headed West from KC..

It was 54 degrees when I crossed into Oklahoma South of Liberal, Ks....  But the wind was blowing over 30 mph...   The little Jeep was all over the road... As the sun went down, the wind subsided and I pressed on to Tucumcari...

We spent the night at our usual Rodeway Inn...  This turned out to be a bad deal, as somehow I contacted a bunch of germs and awoke with a runny nose and a sore throat.... I found 2 zinc tabs in my medicine bag.

Since you gain an hour, I was up with the sun but the clock had an earlier time on it...  I was on the road by 7:45..  Stopping only for gas and bathrooms, we were in Gallup around 1:30..  I went to the Wal Mart there for more zinc..

So by 6 PM, we arrived here in Mesa, and began the unload process....   So much work when you are by yourself...  I had driven thru a car wash up in Payson, to remove layers of road salt and grime from the Jeep..  But as I look at the vehicle this morning, it isn't anywhere near clean...  At least I didn't get filthy as I loaded stuff out of it...

So I will miss the terrible cold covering the midwest and northeast... That's OK by me and Biscuit is much happier going outside to do her duty as well...

Retired Rod