Fri. & Sat. Homeward Bound

Good-bye

Friday 3-15 Farewell to the Valley

We started the day off by finishing getting the Minnie ready for the journey home. While I was putting things down and away Larry dumped the tanks, disconnected us from the main water and unplugged us. Then he walked over to the office and paid for the electricity we used this month. After I finished putting things away I got rid of our garbage and recycled our cans. On the way back I stopped in the office and said good-bye to Donna. Then I went to the recreation hall and said good-bye to the ladies there. While saying bye to Mary I thanked her for all the hard work she and Fiona do all season to entertain the residents.

Then we went to our last dance in the Valley. It was a C1 Dance with Bronc. We had five squares and an extra couple. Bronc called tips that included: Triple boxes, Relay the Shadow and a few more calls. We were glad because we needed the practice. Then we said good-bye the to people we got to know this year who dance C1. Some of them are still going to be here after the dancing stops because it's still cold where they live. We said good-bye to Bronc and Fia Wise and thanked them for a great three months of dancing.

On the way home we stopped at Subway for lunch. When we got home we moved the Minnie out, hooked up the dolly and loaded the Equinox on. We were on the road by 1:00. 

We stopped for the night in Buda, which is about 81 miles from home. We drove highway 281 to Three Rivers, which was a four lane highway. Then we got on highway 72, which was both two and four lanes. As we drove we saw a lot of wildflowers. It looks like Spring has arrived in south Texas. Larry had to fight a strong wind all day. I dozed off once in awhile.

Saturday 3-16 We're Home 

Home Sweet Home

  

We continued our journey home at 7:30 this morning. We stopped at HEB and bought a couple of donuts for breakfast. The traffic wasn't bad getting through Austin so we were home by 9:30. On the way home we stopped by the post office and picked up our mail and started it up. Then we drove to the UPS Store and picked up the rest of our mail. Afterwards we went home.

When we got home we tried to open the garage door with the opener and it wouldn't open. I tried to open the door by punching in the code on the pad, it didn't open. So we figured that the power was out. We manually opened the door. Then we unloaded the Minnie. Larry unloaded the Equinox. It took us about an hour. We put everything away. The power tried to come on a couple of times. When it was time for lunch I was going to make soup but all of our appliances are electric. So we decided to take the car dolly back to storage. 

On the way home we stopped at Hat Creek Burger Company for lunch. This was the first time we had been there. We shared the Sombrero sandwich, which was a double meat with pepper jack cheese, jalapenos and grilled onions and an order of tater tots. The food was very good.  

I spent the rest of the day doing laundry. Larry called Louise to let her know we were home.

All the time we were in The Valley we never turned on the TV. When I went to play bingo Larry did watch some of the YouTube folks we follow on the computer. We did however do a lot of reading. Larry read 34 book and I read 25.

Back to the TV, this evening we watched a documentary on PBS about Holly Near, she is a folk singer from the 70's that we like. Next we started watching the first season of Agatha Christie's ABC Murders via Amazon. Then I watched an episode of House and an episode of  The Brokenwood Mysteries.

Relaxing in front of the television