currently in: Santa Rosa Lake State Park, NM

It's Thanksgiving, and I have something to be thankful for: we are finally out of the house and on the road! After a week of sorting, packing, cleaning, arranging, and most importantly figuring out what exactly we will have Bob The Construction Guy do while we're gone, finally everything is sorted, packed, etc., and we are in the Arf-Vee headed south and east.

(For those of you who weren't around last trip:  the Arf-Vee got its name because when we bought it, the exterior was "decorated" with airbrushed paintings of dogs. The former owners were dog trainers; by the time we reached Burlington, VT we got sick of people asking about "our dogs" and painted over the portraits with blue and brown spray paint. Now it's, um, the Modern-Art-Vee, I guess.)

Considering that the RV has been sitting mostly unused for two years, it was a pleasant surprise to discover that most things on it still work. Unsurprisingly, that's "most" and not "all". The fridge doesn't seem to be working on DC power (what we use when underway), and as I write this Britt is trying to modify the sink's water faucets so they have a setting between "off" and "leaking all over." I suppose we should consider this a preview of what most likely awaits us at Windom!