Last Night in Del Rio, Now the Weather Will Return to Normal

 It is pretty easy to get into a routine at any place we stay more that a few days.  Our routine here is for Ann to get up about 7:00, and I get up somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00, and about 9:30 I go over to the Community Center and have coffee with the other old guys.  Most of the time we discuss benign issues, other times we talk politics.  Wow, it is most interesting to here the different points of view!  I have way more fun talking issues with people I dont agree with rather than talking issues with people I agree with.  About the only thing we did this week out of the routine is get new tires for the car dolly.

New Tires

The other day while looking things over I noticed that one of the tire on the car dolly was worn to the pint of needing replaced, and the other was not far behind.  The search was on for some new ones.  First stop was the internet to get some idea of prices. The tires on the dolly are not car tires, but trailer tires, and surprisingly they were not that expensive.  The next step was to find a local place that had the tires and could mount them.  At coffee one morning I brought up the issue, and most everyone had a different idea of where the best place to get tires. 

On Ann's noon hour we headed toward town to check things out.  Down the road about two miles is a place that rents U-hauls, sells lot of trailer parts and deer guards.  We stopped and sure enough they sold tires for the dolly, but didnt have the correct size in stock, but could have them tomorrow.  Sounded good enough for us so we ordered some Carlisle 205/70 R-15s.

Here is a pic of the old tires.

And here is the place we bought them.

Here is the dolly with new tires on.

 Our motorhome and car at our "home' here in Del Rio.

Today was the Christmas Dinner pot luck.  Ann made spinach salad, pistachio fluff salad, and almond bark pretzels.  I made sweet potatoes.  As usual, there was way more food that we could eat.  I was nice visiting with the friends we have made here, and meeting some new people that got here a couple of days ago.

The festivities ended about 2:30 and we came back to the motorhome to sit until we felt we could move again.  Later I went outside put the grill, the battery charger, and our Cabella's chairs away. So in the morning we have to unhook the utilities, put the bike rack on the car, load the bikes, and load the car on the dolly.  We are planning on being on the road by 8:30, but we shall see.

We are not sure how far we are going tomorrow.  We would like to get to Deming, NM, but it is going to be in the lower 20s there tomorrow night, and we were hoping for a little warmer over night temperature than that, but it looks like it is going to be pretty chilly all across New Mexico tomorrow night.  You will have to stay tuned to see how far we go tomorrow.  We are scheduled to be in Catalina State Park just on the north side of Tucson Tuesday through Sunday.  We havent decided where we are going from there, but hey, we have a few days to decide what is next!

I have made a couple of changes in the blog.  Now instead of waiting for me to post on Facebook when I update the blog, you can now subscribe by email.  Just put in your email, and you will be notified when the blog is updated.

I added a couple more links to some of the blogs I read, and I finally remembered where I need to change the html to change locations in the weather bug.

Well, our propane heater just went out because the 20 lb bottle it runs off of is empty again.  The cold weather here really has taken a lot of propane.  We have used six 20 lb bottles in the three weeks we have been here.  I hope it warms up enough that we dont have to use that much propane in the next three weeks.

Off to change out the propane bottle, and then to bed.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

Paul