5 Weeks To Go

The weather is getting cooler, it must be time to go South.

The truck is almost finished, the loading ramps are in from way down South, and Integrity Ventures (Diesel) in Steinbach, MB. are working on the finishing touches. We should be ready to go by mid Oct.

We're actively shopping for our Smart Car now and plan to be able to test load it in a couple of weeks. Fortunately for us there are plenty of them available and we're shopping from Vanc. to Winnipeg. The new ones are soooo tempting, they have four years warranty, and there are year end discounts on them right now. Problem is I suffer from "old and cheap syndrome" --- but Bernie doesn't and we'll get it figured out.

We decided to go S. to Texas via the Black Hills and Bad Lands of S. Dakota, on to Okalhoma to spend a couple of days with some friends at their home, and then to Texas. We plan to be in "Tropic Star" by the 5th of Nov. in time for the "Shrimp Festival" on S. Padre Island. I not an expert by any stretch but the best shrimp I have ever eaten were on S. Padre Island. We've never been down there in time for the "Shrimp Festival" but we might be able to this year.

This will be the first trip we've made down there taking "ALL" the time we want. Every other time we drove down we were on some kind of a self imposed deadline but this time we'll take two or three weeks or more if we decide to. Staying in our 5r spending time with freinds and seeing the sights should make for a fun trip. I'm trying to plan the roads so we never touch a freeway, two lanes and small towns all the way, with lots of pictures posted here as often as I can.

August and Sept have been really nice, family oriented time. Colleeen, Tim and their family visited from Langely, Amber was in from Calgary, we had some great times at Leslie and John's cabin, and now we're on a road trip to Vancouver. We stopped in Regina for a couple of days with my brother Rick and his family, then on to Calgary for a few great days with Amber and my sister Jan and her family. Great times along the way and now we're with Colleen and Tim in Langley for a few days.

So that's kind of all there is, the posts should become much more regular as we begin to travel..

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