More Spring, Travel & Ralph Update

Wow, time has just flown by for us! I was reminded that our blog needed an update (thank you Karen). We have had a beautiful spring, but the showers have now arrived! Yesterday was beautiful so decided to take in the tulip fields along with hundreds of our closest friends - tourists! Here are a couple of pictures.


This whole month will be very crowded here and getting in and out of our RV park will be a challenge. It has changed alot since we were last here in 2001. It is very commercial and they charge for everything now, but people were lined up and willing to pay. Not us - we went where it was free (very few places) and stopped to look at one field where you were allowed to pull over. Those fields are still beautiful with the mountains in the background!

Yes, we will be on the move. We are both ready to "get on the road again". We have decided to use our membership campgrounds in the area that we have paid the dues for rather than continue to pay rent and electric here. Part of our motivation was a healthy rent increase here - we do not mind the owners making a reasonable living but with this increase it appears that they want us to pay for their kids college education and the house they bought in Arizona. So we will move on out and save some money for our trip east. Travel schedule has been updated and once we have confirmed reservations we will post our schedule for going east.

Ralph has 2 treatments left - next one on Monday. The side effects are more intense each time, but manageable with only 2 to go. These will all disappear over time once chemo stops. His oncologist is very pleased with his lab reports and overall health. Once finished with chemo, he will have his port removed - office procedure - and then in 3 months he will have his CT scans and another colonoscopy. Those should all be just fine. He will need to get labs done about every 3 months and sent back here. He also will have a box to use to phone his pacemaker info back every 3 months. It is amazing what they can do now!

We need to do some serious cleaning out and a couple of little projects before we move. Since the basement area is the big one, we are waiting on a few days of no rain and a bit warmer!