Test post

This post is a test.  I want to be able to post on our trip and send the link via email to the group of folks who might like to keep up with where we are and what we are doing.  If you are able to click the link and see the post labeled "test post", please reply to my email in the affirmative.  You also can sign up to follow the blog.

Cooking!

We prefer to cook in our RV rather than eat out when we travel.  Better food, healthier and doesn't require dressing up and driving somewhere.  So Jim is making some of our favorite dishes and we are freezing them in serving sizes in zip lock bags.  Makes for easy dinners!

Counting down the days!

We will be leaving our home on August 3 for our longest RV trip yet.  Jim and are are both so excited to see new parts of the country.  We will stop off near Fort Collins to see friends for a couple days then on to Mt Rushmore. In that area we will also visit Deadwood and the Crazy Horse monument as well as maybe a tiny side trip to Sturgis, where the huge motorcycle rally will be happening.  My only interest in going there is to snap some photos of interesting looking characters for painting reference.  That all depends on how much extra time we have.  I also want to visit the wild horse preserve in South Dakota.

Next up will be several days at Yellowstone after which we work our way toward the north rim of the Grand Canyon.  We plan a one night stop at Utah Lake state park and then a couple nights in Zion national park.  After the Grand Canyon we will be working our way back to Fort Worth.  Plan to get back home on August 28.  I'm so excited also to miss the Texas August heat!  WooHoo!

So lots of news and photos to come.  Stay tuned!