Hot news flash
Well the news is we're ready to come back to Washington. It won't be long now before we get out of Dodge, that is Leander Texas. We just about have our little projects all wrapped up. Here this weekend we probably will move back into the Motorhome. Yesterday we got our second covid 19 vaccination, and five days after that we should be good to go!
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I have been visiting several doctors, and Judy and I signed up with a primary care physician at the Baylor Scott and White clinic. This has allowed us to be included in a waitlist for vaccinations. I have been thoroughly inspected inside and out, and my last inspection will happen next week! They will be testing my brain. If they find the test went well, I might qualify for a DBS implant to control my Parkinson's.

Right now our plans are:
1. Sell the sprinter van.(We were successful selling the Sprinter Van)
2. Drive the coach only to Arizona.
3 look around the Phoenix area and see if we can find a smaller rig that we can squeeze into.

Our alternate plans are:
 1. Tow the unsold sprinter to Arizona.
 2. Sell the sprinter in the Phoenix area.
 3. Look for a smaller rig that we can squeeze into.
 4. Trade both rigs for a new smaller rig we can squeeze into.
 

Our alternate plan
To tow the sprinter to Washington in about a month. 

There, that ought to cover all our bases.

Over the years I have come to realize it's always easier to buy something new than it is to sell something used. In which you can have lovingly created, worked hard to get just the way you wanted, is not necessarily a compelling reason for someone else to buy. The Kelly blue book people suggest $35,000 as a fair price. A local auto dealer suggested a mid $20,000s and would offer us $12,000, maybe.

The new issues we are finding for our newly adopted way of life, which we call snow-birding, has its own list of things to consider.
1. Do we leave everything in the coach and create duplicates in "Nana's Tiny House in the Meadow.", Or do we take a bunch of stuff back and forth across the meadow to the coach each year as we get ready to move. I expect it will take most of the week to move everything back to the coach.
On our migration trip this year we are planning to stretch our legs a little and consider doing some 300 mile days. We are hoping that the RV parks haven't all gone out of business.

More good news: we are actually starting to hear about bluegrass festivals that are really going to happen in the summer. Looking forward to meeting up with sister Holly at Sacajawea State Park and Pasco. It won't be the same, there will need be no bands featured, only picking n’ grinning. But it's a start.

Our probable route was suggested by Google Maps.

   > US 29, US71 and US 87 to San Angelo TX
   > Interstate 20 around Midland TX
   > US 62 to Los Cruxes NM
   > Interstate 10 through Deming, Benson, Tucson to Casa Grande.
   > At that point we will leave Google maps for Interstate 8 to Gila Bend
   > Then we will cut across country to Wickenburg AZ, our old standard route.

        Location:                          Date
North Ranch, Congress AZ                 April 21
Cottonwood AZ                            April ??
Bend Oregon                              May 7? (Arrived May 11)
St. Helens OR  (Spokane)                 May 14? (Plan for May 14th)
Colville WA day trip for Dwane Phipps Celebration of life, May 22nd
Seabeck WA                               May 21?
Trip to Winthrop WA                   May 24-27?
Sequim WA                                May 28?
Seabeck WA                               June 1?
Notice: These sailings are not yet approved by the Fleet Admiral. Also recognize that these dates are much closer than they appear.


   Potential Events:       Date      
Sacajawea Pasco WA      TBA  (2nd week in June)
Lacey Dixieland Jazz    May 25-26 not confirmed
Wenatchee Bluegrass Cashmere June 18-20
Darrington Bluegrass    July 16-18
Stevenson WA            TBA {3rd week in July}