Spent 2 nights in Albuquerque NM. 1st night had a really nice dinner that our friend Stevie prepared in her new condo. It was wonderful to see Stevie (Stephanie) again.
I met her in Alamos, Mexico in the early 90's.
Time passed, she got divorced from an Alaskan fisherman that played my husband in an Alamos stage production way beck when.
Stevie then moved to Panama City, Panama for a few years. She returned to ABQ where we had a reunion along with another good Alamos friend, Kay,who now lives in Taos NM where we all got acquainted again for a few days at Kay's beautiful adobe home. That reunion was Oct or Nov 2008 I think. Anyway, it's now been a year since & it was SO good to see her again.
We spent 4 nights in Branson, Mo...saw 4 shows...all good. We met up with Peg Cantwell & Larry Earp there (yes he IS....as in Wyatt )
It was truly a serendipitous happening. Thanks to another friend in Alamos, Dolores Parker. We had met Peg & Lar in Dolores' house last March when we were in Alamos. They told us they were full-timers living in San Diego. They had been there 2 years & decided that if they were going to fulfill their "bucket-list" they'd better get moving. In an email, on our way to Branson, Dolores told us that Peg & Lar were also on their way to Branson. Anyway, it all worked out & we were in their RV when the cats & dogs downpour happened. Hey, they even have a fireplace in their RV 38' home. We call our RV the "breadbox" & theirs the mansion!
Now we're in Effingham Illinois of all places. Guess what? This is one of our very favorite RV parks!
We didn't leave Branson until about noon and after just a few hours driving, interrupted only by an 1 1/2 hr lunch & gas stops....we were tired & just picked a Good Sam RV camp out of the book close to where we were when we got tired. There were no Passport America RV camps when we were ready to call it quits for the day. That was about 4pm.
It's called Camp Lakewood they do have a website...I'll see if its any good...if so I'll past it here. Well it's not a bad site.
We'll be leaving Camp Lakewood after 2 nights & 3 loads of clean laundry and on our way to my family in Coldwater MI about 500 miles from here.
But before we get there we plan to spend tomorrow night, Monday, & maybe Tuesday night in night in Shipshewana, Indiana . ship-she-who? We've passed through this lovely Amish area before but it wasn't on a day when the huge Shipshewana Flea Market happens. That's on Tuesdays & Wednesdays. There's now an RV park right adjacent to the Flea Market & , what the heck, we're going to just do it. We do NOT need any more "stuff" but it will be fun to look. Are you taking any bets? Ha ha.
By the way, cheapest gas so far was NW of St Louis about 40 miles West of the Illinois boarder on I-70. $2.09 per gal all over the place. Too bad we'd filled up earlier @ $2.19 gal and only needed about 1/4 of a tank. We were happy anyway. PS we had gusty winds from Branson to St Louis but tightened up the sway bars a bit tighter than normal & that helped a lot, we think. Gusts up to 27 mph were being reported.
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Trish
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