Winter is threatening central Texas -- time to leave!

We have wrapped up our annual visit to Texas and our trek across the gulf states to Florida so we can celebrate Thanksgiving with Jeffrey's parents. This is one of the few journeys that we make quickly -- driving every day and staying in a different park every night.  Our 3-year chassis warranty is due to expire soon, so we tempted fate by trying to also squeeze in Max's annual service along the way (normal oil changes, etc) at a place that was recommended in Louisiana.  The bad news is they found a small issue and didn't have the part they needed to fix it.  The good news is the warranty covered it.  The bad news is that we were delayed an extra day waiting for the part. The good news is that we got some experience camping with no hookups ("boondocking") in their parking lot.  Hey, even WE can make lemonade out of lemons!

Anyhow, this extra adventure made for 2 very long driving days to make up the time so we could still get to Florida on schedule. The sore butts didn't stop us from enjoying time with one of Jeffrey's 4 older brothers/sister-in-law (John & Susan) in Pensacola plus a fun lunch connecting with 2 other full-time RV couples we met last January. The conversation is what you'd imagine -- cool places and parks visited, issues with the rigs, lifestyle "lessons learned", plus plans to try to intersect again soon. It was hard to part ways again :-(

Our next stop was a week in Gainesville visiting Jeffrey's parents for Thanksgiving (and enjoying a few "live" Gator sporting events on campus), and we have now settled in for a week at Lazydays in Tampa.  Today Max is getting a much-needed wash and hand wax plus having his aluminum wheels polished.  For a rig that is 41 feet long and almost 13 feet tall, these are efforts that we are more than happy to pay somebody else to do!  Tomorrow we report for our "service" appointment and, thankfully, the "fix it" list is very short this year -- just a few minor items that we don't want to tackle ourselves. We have RV friends who are also here having some items worked on, so this gives us a chance to visit with them too.

Since I don't have any RV travel pictures to post yet, below are some good shots taken of us during a cruise we took in October.  We left Max in Texas and flew out to California for a cruise that visited Los Angeles, San Diego, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, plus a few other lovely quaint Mexican towns.

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