The Road Back to the East Coast Begins

As I sit here watching the drifting snowflakes fall on the black tar parking lot we spent the night in I am surprised how far we have come to now be turned around brought back to the East.  We are in Butte Montana this AM after leaving Salt Lake City yesterday afternoon.  While in Salt Lake Tom was recovering from a strained muscle to his back and I was on the down hill side of a cold.  Upon further reflection while there we thought maybe we should have stayed in Vegas where it was warm.  Especially when I woke up one morning to find 3" of snow on the ground.  But we took it in stride and enjoyed the fluffy white stuff for now.

We planned to stay a few more days in Salt Lake City to explore and go to the genealogy library the Mormons have there.  It quite a place.  But alas we did not make it to the library because of a weather system named Sandy on the East Coast.  Maybe you've heard of it by now.

Well being the FEMA inspectors we are the emails started coming in about the possibility of being ready.  Then we got the email which asks us to be put on stand by, when we didn't respond fast enough Tom got a call.  So we are on on Stand By for whenever and wherever this monster hits.  For now it's New York but that could change.  

Well we really need to get to Idaho and our stuff packed away in our truck.  There are some things we don't need on the RV and some we do.  That was the plan to swap out.  So off we go to Idaho and plan on being there for a few days until this thing hits and we see how big it will be.  With the loses to be in the billions we could see work for a whole lot longer than we did for Hurricane Issac.

I guess we'll have a white Christmas this year on the East side of the country.  Not quite what we expected but that's what makes this a great adventure.

Thanks for coming along.

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UPDATE Since Sedona

Since our last post in Sedona we have been a little busy.

We went to Arizona and visited with Tom's kids and grand kids.  Which was a lot of fun.  Although very hot.  The temps stayed in the high 90's for most of that week.  But it was a dry heat as they say.

Leaving Arizona we headed to California on Monday October 1.  Our drive turned out to be a very warm ride.  The desert was a toasty 115 by the time we arrived in Palm Springs.  We had 3 AC's going with fans blowing the air around.  That was simply not enough to keep up with the heat and we were about 85 inside the coach.  Arriving in Anaheim near Disneyland the temps were still around 100.  The coach took about a day to cool off completely.

We spent the week visiting friends, our old neighborhood and handling business.  All in all a busy but fun week.  We don't miss California at all.  The busy pressure cooker of Los Angeles made us both anxious and ready to leave.

After a week we were more than finished and headed to Tehachapi to visit with my nephew Steve and his family and to see my mom.

Leaving there we headed to Vegas for what we thought would be a couple of days but instead we stayed 10 days.  I was able to hang out with my sister and we had some fun.  But ...WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS STAYED IN VEGAS !!!

I can't break my promise but safe to say it was a Wild Time !!!

Headed now to Salt Lake City...

I'll post some pictures soon.  Thanks for coming along.