Motorhome travel is all about the flexibility...

May 8, 2007
McKinney, TX

We're still in McKinney and the blind work should be done by Thursday. It seems like everything takes twice as long as it should, sometimes. Although all the fabrication was done last Thursday and almost all of the installation was done on Friday, the last few pieces have just dragged on and on. It'll be worth it when it's done, and I'm sticking close to make sure it's done in a way we'll be happy with, of course.

Because of the delays here, we're deferring the stay in Memphis until a later date, although we may overnight there on the way to Alabama (it's a good spot between two days of driving). We hope to leave here Thursday or Friday morning (we'll leave the morning after the day the work is finished), which should put us in Alabama for Mother's Day. This is another reason to defer the Memphis visit: we missed Mom's birthday (4/28) because of the stop here in McKinney, so we'd like to get there for Mother's Day.

We've already started ordering for things to be shipped to Alabama, so I gave Mom a heads-up to start watching for packages. It's easier -- and cheaper -- to save up online ordering if possible and have things shipped to a place we know we're going to be for a while. This way we don't pay shipping twice (once from the shipper and a second time from our mail service), and we don't have to worry that a shipment might be delayed and hold us up from moving on. I haven't ordered our mail from the mail service in almost 6 weeks, so I'll have that sent to AL as well.

Mom says Alyson's getting some sort of award/scholarship tonight, so we'll have to find out what that's all about when we get there.

Paul and Dorna Kuhn arrived yesterday, so we have two identical looking coaches parked here this week. Geri and Dorna have been off shopping for most of the day, which is a good thing (really, it is -- it's not fun to sit around and watch somebody work on the coach!). We've got another 2005 Monaco Executive on the other side of us as well. Their work is just starting this week, so hopefully they'll benefit from all the "product development" that's been done on our coach this week.

I'm way behind on the photo side, so I'll have to use tomorrow's work time as a window of opportunity to try some new things linking photos to the blog. I've been studying photo sharing sites to see what will work best for us. Some are free and others cost a monthly or annual fee. Many are linked to shops that really want to sell you (and your friends) prints and other doo-dads (mugs, t-shirts, calendars, etc.). Some (especially the fee-based ones, are geared toward professions trying to showcase their work. Over time, we'll probably end up with a couple of different approaches. Right now, I'll probably start with Picasa2, the Google approach and see what happens. You (blog readers) will be the first to know!