We drove I-10 between San Antonio and Phoenix many times while Sarah was an undergraduate at ASU. “Go Sun Devils”! The McDonald Observatory was one of the points of interest highlighted with signage along the way, and this has stuck in MFI’s memory for several decades. Therefore, as part of her plan for our trip…
For our fourth and final day in the park, we made Boquillas Canyon in the Park’s southeast corner our primary focus. It was a 50-mile drive from the Park entrance. This canyon is one of the last locations we saw where the Rio Grande is still easily accessible, that is, reachable on paved roads. Four…
The weather on Day 3 was also mostly clear and beautiful. Our destination was the basin inside the Chisos Mountain caldera. We took a right turn before getting to Panther Junction and climbed into the forested mountains. The lower forests were comprised of Piñon Pine, Drooping Junipers, and Gray Oak, while at higher elevations we…
We decided to make Santa Elena Canyon our featured stop for the day. From the Park entrance, it was a 38-mile drive with many interesting sites and stops along the way. The weather was beautiful, although forecasted to get very hot in the afternoon. I’ve included this map to illustrate what turned out to be…
MFI selected Big Bend National Park as our first major stop of the 2023 travel year. On our way, we stayed for three days at a mediocre RV park between Midland and Odessa, TX. While the staff were very helpful, the owners of the park have not adequately maintained it. Likely will be the only…
We never intended to spend this amount of time wintering in Carrollton, TX. Nope! We arrived on 1 October to attend Jon and Katherine’s wedding two weeks later (see blog titled The Bunner-Hearty Wedding, 15 October 2023), then expected we’d take care of all our personal issues (see below), and return to the road by…
“Ms Fix It & The Pool Man” was originally designed using WordPress by our friend, Danielle. She gave me some basic training on blogging, then advised that if we had any problems with the site, just “follow the theme templates.” R-i-i-i-i-ght! We’ve had no significant issues over the past three years, until I started receiving…
Since we are living in Arthur full-time, this means he must be able to survive below freezing weather. Yet we hadn’t prepared him for his first freeze in November of 2019. Arthur was parked at Midway RV Park on Naval Support Activity Mid-South base, Millington, TN when temperatures plunged low enough for the park’s water…
We visited Michael, Sarah, Samantha, and Happy for three weeks over the 2022/23 Christmas and New Year Holidays. As always, they greeted us with a well-thoughtout project list of 42 items. We didn’t complete the list, but with Michael’s help during his vacation time, we knocked out much of it. Some were simple and hardly…
We enjoyed two outings with the grandkids during our Gomez 2022/2023 holiday visit. Both have always had an interest in the trains, which pass through Hollywood, FL, so we planned a day of train travel into downtown Miami. We also enjoy taking them out for breakfast, and took Michael and Sarah up on their recommendation…
