Ranger's Report Card

Most of the time my posts are travel logs reporting on the previous days travels and the sights we have seen.  Usually they are reasonably true and accurate.  Sometimes my writing is a little bit more than the truth, but that is the Ranger storyteller in me.  For some reason I inherited my fathers love of telling a good story, not always an accurate or completely truthful account.

I must say I really enjoy writing the blog.  It helps me focus and appreciate the adventure we are having each day.  So far there have been 4,127 pageviews of the blog so a few others must be enjoying my ramblings.

Two cacti, which one will I hug today?

Todays blog will be a report card on life for the Ranger's.

We began our adventure almost 4 months ago after Terri's retirement.  We had done a lot of planning for several years to make retirement an adventure and not just stopping work.  After almost 4 months we can report that our nomad/vagabond lifestyle is working for us.

We are comfortable in the motorhome and are looking forward to spending the next five months wintering in Mazatlan.  We ask ourselves how long this might go on and the answer is always, "for years and years."

We are learning to pace ourselves or I could truthfully say that Terri is reining me into a more relaxed pace to our adventures.  Today is Sunday and there is no Seahawks game to watch.  We made it a stay at home and relax, do a little puttering and a bike ride day.  Terri is taking a nap as I write.  In other words it's a lazy day for the Ranger's.  It's in the low 80's with a nice breeze coming through the motorhome, maybe I should be napping.

The lady of the house napping.

Today we confirmed that we will be storing the RV at the same location we have spent this last week.  They have an area that is set aside for long term storage for people like us that need to leave their RV for an extended period of time.  We feel good about the security of the location and the management of the couple that own the RV park.  By the way, it will cost $35.00 per month to store our RV here.

We picked this location because it is less than 2 hours from our boarder crossing in Nogales.  We are meeting a Canadian couple that we know from our condo and will be caravanning the two day trip with them.  They have been doing this trip for years so it will be great to have someone show us the ropes.

We will be activating our Mexican cell phone when we get to Mazatlan.  I'll let you all know the number when it is activated.  We will be setting up our cable and internet as soon as we can so you won't be missing this great blog for long.

We have several people that will be visiting during our time there.  If you would like to come down we have a great place for you to stay.  We have an extra bedroom and bath just waiting for you.  In another week we will be showing you pictures from Mazatlan.  And if that doesn't entice you nothing will.  Remember every day is 80 something and sunny!

Home Sweet Home on the sixth floor.

So what is the score on our report card?  Most days it's an A for adventure.  Some days it is L for lazy.  A few days it has been SOP for stupid old people.  Almost every day it is GF for good food.

The overall score for the Ranger's is H for happy.