A few odds and ends here to catch up.

 

Below are the first five years of Have Gunns Will Travel that we produced as our "scrapbooks" of the adventures of the Flying Scotsman. Once I have blogged a full year I go to the www.blurb.com site and "slurp" my blog into their book format. The result is a slick, color, 150 page rendition of all of the entries (photo and text) from the last year's blog ... really neat and easy. I'm slurping the 2012 year for production as we speak, because in April we will begin the seventh year of the Grand Adventure.

 

 

Also our schedule for the Flying Scotsman for 2012 is firming up. After one or more visits to the Dallas area, we will head down to the Austin-San Antonio area in the end of March to say hi/bye to friends there and then motor east toward Florida. The intent is to do the coast of Florida and the Keys and then all the way up the coast to Canada for the summer. We've booked our seasonal spot in Barrie for $4000 and hope to arrive there in the first week of May.

One of the reasons we are here in Bryan is that is where we still get most of our medical care. Over the holidays I wrenched my neck somehow (thinking I'm 20 or something) and the left arm pain was pretty good. On to the MRI. Kinda reminded me of survival school when they lock you in a box and pound on it for hours ... Prognosis is good with a few more visits.

OK, serious stuff is over. Here is a new addition to the park here. Let's see we have a nicely landscaped 90 foot parking spot made for that million dollar Prevost, but ... this is a pickup bed camper being lived in. I know the picture might be confusing as I have included a normal trailer just behind the camper ... only the gray part and below it count for this RV.

Again another poorer picture but worth it. As I was leaving the assisted living facility yesterday after seeing Dad, I met this small Cooper's hawk sitting on the sign that reads, "Resident Drop Off." I guess I really shouldn't go further with that one, eh.