Okeechobee in my Rearview Mirror

Okeechobee is a fair possibility. The drive out was no fun on Beeline Road. Lots of traffic and delay and crazy drivers. The storage yard looks good and is half the price of my current place which is six blocks away from here. The are RV parks every 5 feet along the strip I drove in Okeechobee. The drive back in on US 441 was less hassle but still had its problems. BUT ( and that is a big But-just like mine) the hassle for me and kids is daunting. Somebody would have to collect me to get me back to the Van. The next season would be the same. Richard and Donna have been calling with glowing weather reports from the west. Delores and Janet email about tulips popping up and so forth. Delores recounts our friend Jayne doing the same last minute frenzy earlier this year before she went back to West Virginia. It is probably a syndrome.

I got tricked last year and from what I read, we should hope for some wet sloppy storms this spring in Wyoming. I don't mind the spring storms but it seems we had them into June in 2006.

If I am going to develop a different plan it needs to start when I come down next year-not the final week. So I think it is time to suck it up and get ready to go. I have been thinking of the charms of home-my own good bed, my friends, my satellite TV and internet, the ease of shopping, my books, the trees leafing out. Always better to have things to look forward to. If I don't like the weather the car keys are close at hand. Las Vegas is a hard day's drive away and I will be going to Oregon in May and October as usual.