It's beginning to look a little sparse around here lately. Many of the snowbirds have left and a large number of the rest will be leaving at the end of the month. The monthly activity calendar is filled through the 31st and then that is it. No activities are scheduled for April since there will be so few people here other than the ones who live here all year long.
We were scheduled to leave on April 9th, but doctor appointments will delay our departure to the end of April. We don't have any plans for the trip back east so it won't be a problem unless it gets hot out here. A couple years ago we left around May 1 and it was getting hot by then. That time we made the mistake of going to Lake Havasu and then Las Vegas and their 107+ temps.
The temperatures out here have been warmer than usual so the snakes and other creepy crawler are active again. That limits where we are willing to go geocaching, so we will be looking for more urban caches, rather than out in the desert.
Most of the other bloggers who I follow on the internet have left their roosts or are preparing to do so. Gloria & Doug look like they will be among the last to leave among their friends. Carolyn & Mann are already back home and enjoying cutting grass and cleaning up the yard. UGH! Sharon & Al are still ranch sitting until the first of April and then they will make the long trek back to Illinois. Ron & Dee are hanging around a little longer this year and then will make a beeline back to their home. Sherwin & Linda left over a week ago and should be back in Maine by now.
We have tentative plans to leave here and take I-10 back across TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC, NC, VA and on to Maryland. The nice thing is that we don't have a fixed schedule and can take our time. It is easier to avoid the tornadoes along the route home. That is, assuming we don't get caught out in the middle of nowhere like we did last year in West Texas. I don't want a repeat of that experience this year.
It was an interesting weekend of college basketball and just about every team I was interested in winning wound up loosing. The University of Maryland women's team did win and had to come back from a huge deficit to do so. Maryland is now in the final 8 of the women's tournament and face an uphill challenge. Baylor Univ has a 6' 8" center who dunked the ball twice this past weekend. Whew! She looked pretty good and moves really well. I might even watch them play the next game to see how she does.
Time to hit the hay and get this published. Have fun out there.
Sabillasville, Maryland farm
Clark Travels
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Yeah, we're thinning out here at the SKP Saguaro park also, but not so obviously as some of the nearby commercial parks. There are usually about 80 or so rigs here with people in them all summer. Many of them are the pioneers who built this park some 23 years ago. The rest of us owe them a great debt of gratitude! Those originals dug trenches, laid out roads and lots, hauled rock, built concrete block buildings, and did it all so that Suzy and I can have a great place to live while we are here, and a wonderful place to come back to when we have been away!
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