Stuck in the Snow

December 18

Sam asked that I update her latest missive  . . . . .

After pretty nice travel weather from Santa Rosa, we’ve found a bump in the road.  Had to take a 100 mile detour yesterday ’cause I-40 was closed at the NC border due to a landslide, which got us only to Asheville, NC  last night . . . .  so the storm has caught us here.  Snowing, with predictions of up to 8 inches today and more tonight. Looks like we’ll be here a couple of days. We were hoping to make Havelock by Saturday at least, since Susie has a singing gig at the church on Sunday which We were hoping to catch.  And Jason was giving a Christmas talk. Not to be. If we were a couple hundred miles further east we would be into the rain, not this solid white stuff, which I seem to remember seeing before somewhere  . . . . .

It has been clear and cool with cold nights across the country.  Good for the bus ’cause it doesn’t get so hot on the climbs. I-40 is pretty good as interstates go. Of course there is always old concrete, which I dislike intensely!  Tennessee has pretty good roads, but their bridge/highway interface sucks. I DON’T know why they can’t do a better job of matching the bridge edges to the highway. BIG BUMPS!  Tennessee  is really a pretty state.  I would like to spend more time there looking around. Same goes for Oklahoma City . . . . . looks very interesting. Hopefully on one of these cross-country treks we won’t be on some destination schedule.

One of the problems that we did not have a clue about until we started traveling is that, although it seems like there are a lot of RV parks, there really aren’t where you might wish them to be. We quite often have to quit traveling earlier that we might want because there are big distances  ahead with no parks. We don’t like boon-docking in the cold weather because it gets so cold in the bus overnight. And, you can’t always count on a Walmart or Flying J where you need them. So, we take a little longer going from A to B.

So . . .  we’ll undoubtably make the kids by Christmas . . . and wishing all our friends on this blog – o – sphere a warm and happy holiday!

Love to all,

Dave & Sam