48 hours

It's amazing what can happen in 48 hours. Tuesday afternoon, I was feeling fine and about 4 pm I got whacked flat my some strange medical issue. I was down for nearly 36 of the past 48 hours. Luckily, I rallied up and am ready to rock and roll again.
I think it was case of severe dehydration. Man, ya just gotta drink water, drink water--repeat after me--drink water. Got that?

Luckily, we started packing for this trip a long time ago. If we had waited until the last minute (AKA last weekend) we would have never made it. We're leaving early because our house in Arizona was vandalized last weekend. I'd guess the true damage estimate would be $4000-$5000. It remains to be seen what we do about it when we arrive.

Today was the last big grunt packing the truck. Luckily, it all fit in perfect "swiss watch" style. So far, I haven't seen anything unusual about the packing rig--except that the back of the truck is plumb full to the max. This is a hybrid trip--we're totally rigged for camping but we also have to rig for housekeeping AND rig for damage control due to the vandalism. So, we have all of our tools: hand tools, power tools, long-handled tools, etc. That makes a real mess when you are packing the back of a pickup truck.

There's really not much left to do--My "TO DO" list is down to a single page and the main item on it is "pack mroe socks." So, you can see there isn't much left to do. I also plan to find a plce to rat-hole some sodas and canned V-8 juice. Other than that, it's time to clear camera cards and get teh electronics stashed properly. Susun has been a "Cleaning Fool" today and this house is spotless. She really likes to return home to a clean house--wow, she really outdid herself today! THANK YOU, Susun!

Gee, I even had time for a haircut today--at a real hair place even. Susun can do my hair but it's worth $11 to get it done F-A-S-T!

We're planning on leaving before 8 a.m. but we're really not in a hurry. Does that makes sense? Probably not. Mainly because we're only going to the Blue Pine Motel in Panguitch, Utah Friday night. we don't want to get there TOO early as there isn't much to do in Panguitch--unless you know the right people. We're going to stop at Cabela's and probably IKEA, too. That will definitely burn up some travel time.

Well, not much else to report. we're excited about using the new cell phone to update our Twitter account. This is opening up a whole new era of travel for us.
Hopefully, Sarah, Stasea and others will be able to follow our trip progress pretty much as it unfolds.

Thanks for reading. We probably won't have a chance to update this blog in Panguitch. Maybe they have WI-FI and maybe they don't. If they do, we will update it. otherwise, I am not certain when we will update it. The best thing to watch is the Twitter account:

http://twitter.com/thesnowbirds

Have a great day & Cheers!