As of this date, my house has a contract that should close in two days (September 30, 2021).  I’m currently hassling the buyer to get proper insurance.  The contract for the house was signed in June but the buyer is an LLC so they wanted the usual 90 day evaluation period.  In the process, the 3rd party financing didn’t work out so they came back to the original owner financing that I had offered originally so the closing date is the 30th.  I’ve already signed my part of the papers.

Previously, back on Election Day, I had folks come in and get rid of Ring Tail Cats.  That started me to start cleaning out the attics.  I got them completely cleaned out in a few weeks.  And then starting in June, I slowly started clearing out the house.  I believe there was 5 trips to Goodwill with nothing but pictures, frames, and framing supplies.  Many trips to recycling.  Plus, of course, trips to a 10x10 storage.  The rest of my accumulated stuff I trashed.  Many items went to my son, Michael.  And other things are going to my brothers up in Montana.

We finally loaded up the wagons and drove from Leander to Richardson yesterday.  We had an F-250 with a 16’ trailer loaded with my John Deere Tractor and a Subaru with a 8’ trailer.

Got to Richardson around 4 p.m. yesterday.  Today we took a trip to see Britt’s lake house.  We currently plan to leave for Montana on Friday.

Well... that was too long a drive.  500 miles.  left before 9 and got here at 5:20 but there is an hour time change so its really 6:20.

Took a few snap shots of the dust in west texas.  Its just like the movies.  I will upload them later but from a quick glance, you can't really tell how thick the dust was.

Here in Roswell for a night (is the current plans).  There is a wildlife refuge I hope to get to just outside of time before sunrise.  And the off road park is about 40 minutes out of time (back towards Austin unfortunately).  I'm not sure if I'll do that or not.

The guy at the front desk (a guest) said the road from Alamogordo to Roswell was wonderful.  I need to do some google map searches and see about that.

Trip to Sedona, AZ

First entry of a new trip.  Going "west" probably as far as Sedona, AZ but first stop is Roswell, NM.  No... not to visit my alien family members but its a comfortable 7 or 8 hour drive and there is a wildlife refuge just east of it.  We'll see how this goes.

Video photo sequence from trip

Finally back home

No pictures. The last 6 and a half hours of driving were incredibly boring. I will have a recap of the whole trip like total miles, etc soon.

Here is today's trek:


View Home at last... in a larger map

Still going home

My GPS pronounces Missouri as "misery".  "Take Left on to Misery 15".

Here is a church and an abandoned shack..

I bought a replacement cable but Google maps splits yesterday and today's trek into two pages...  Sorry for the four pages:


View Thursday Going Home in a larger map

View Thursday Going Home in a larger map

View Friday still going home in a larger map

View Friday still going home in a larger map

Tired

I'm at "Lake of the Ozarks" which is in Missouri. I lost the cable to my GPS so I can't upload my map. I have about 13 hours left of driving to make it back home. I'm hoping to do 6+ hours a day.

Iowa and Missouri just didn't appeal to me. I think I'm just too fatigued to stop and take pictures. Here is a touristy type gas station -- sorta cute I suppose.