Albuquerque

Hello!! We can hardly believe we have been on the road for a week now!  This afternoon we pulled into Albuquerque, New Mexico.  After a lot of vast flatlands, we finally got into some more interesting scenery.   The kids identified different landforms, plateaus, mesas and buttes.  Just before Albuquerque we reached the mountains.  It was extremely windy with strong gusts blowing the RV all over the place.  Not too much fun for Scott.
We went into Old Town in Albuquerque and had some really great Mexican food.  Then we walked down the street to see a church built in the 1700's.  It's a very cute area, but most of the shops were closed when we were there.
Tomorrow morning, (hopefully early) we will head to the Grand Canyon.  I took some pics tonight but I am too tired to download them so maybe I will post them tomorrow.

Spending time in Oklahoma City

Today we went to Willie and Rachel's apartment.  Willie is Scott's brother and he plays AAA baseball in Oklahoma City.  The kids and Dad's had a great time playing in the pool together.

Tonight Scott is taking the boys to Willie's game and I am going to stay at the campground to get the RV ready for an early departure tomorrow AM.  We are stopping in Albuquerque tomorrow night on our way to the Grand Canyon.

Oklahoma City-Day 6

We just got settled into our KOA site east of OKC. There was a lot of recent tornado damage as soon as we got off the hwy - a mile down the road. We have decided not to point it out to Jacob, he is terrified of tornados! Later we are going to see Willie's game (Scott's brother).

We had a great visit with the Bako's. They took us to some fabulous restuarants while we were visiting. We parked in an empty lot down the street from their house and ran the RV off of our generator, that is called "boondocking."

In Dallas we visited my friend Tanya Smith from high school. We had a nice visit there as well. It was great meeting her husband and kids, her mom even came over to say "hi."

That's all for now, we are off to find some kind of grocery store, we hear there is a Wal Mart nearby.

On our way to Oklahoma City from Dallas. We have had a great time visiting old friends. Hoping to have good wireless service at next campground!

The USS Alabama and AA baseball game

Our first day

Jacob and Max
Our house on wheels
Greetings from Mobile, Alabama. It took us ALL DAY to get here but we made is safely and that's all that matters.

Scott was not feeling well for most of the day so I did a lot of the driving today. I had never driven the RV for more than 10 minutes before, but after a little while I decided it's not so bad. It's very big though, our RV is 40 foot long and we are towing the car which has the bikes on the back of that!

Tomorrow we are going to visit the USS Alabama during the day and go to a Mobile Bay Bears minor league game tomorrow night. They are playing the Birmingham Barons which is the same team Scott was with for AA ball. He's pretty excited!

Our dogs did really well for the first part of the trip. My youngest dog, Maggie (collie) was kind of nervous. Scott made too sharp of a turn at the start of our trip and things went flying all over the place, Maggie jumped into the closet to hide which is kind of funny because the closet is small and crowded and Maggie is pretty big.

It will be a miracle if we leave on time

Scott is our Captain!

We have just two days left to get ready for our trip. We still have to take the RV up to Tampa to have the injector looked at by Cummins. Scott was supposed to take it today but he was puking all day!! Luckily, he is starting to feel much better, he is one loud puker! We are also trying to have the left driver's side window replaced if they can get one in on time. In the meantime I ran a zillion errands today, and thought of a bunch more things that need to be done before we leave. I can't wait to leave so I can stop packing and buying things for the trip.

Our first stop is Mobile, Alabama and then we are headed to LaFayette, LA to visit our recently retired friends the Bako's.

Over Memorial Day weekend we camped at a local campground to make sure things were working in the RV that we didn't already know were broken. It was fun, and we were able to celebrate Scott's birthday with some friends of ours.