What a Ride!

Back in Time for Mardi Gras!

We have been back in Lake Charles for a week now and made it back in time for Mardi Gras.

Here is Aubrie, our granddaughter, enjoying the music and festivities next to my Aunt Dee.

Here is Sandi, daughter-in-law trying out the Mardi Gras head band.

My cousin, Sheila, is really dressed up for Mardi Gras!

Some of the revelers line dancing.

The police motorcycle group clearing the road for the floats. They ride down the road and then do a couple circles in the road and back up the road.

This first float is Sue and I’s old Mardi Gras krewe. Sorry about the glare.

A few Mardi Gras floats.

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I also got the two rock chips repaired in the motorhome’s windshield, ordered a remanufactured desiccant cartridge for the motorhome’s air system. I need to change it every three years and this year is going on three years.

For the pass couple months I have been having trouble with the 12 volt connector on my supplemental braking system in the car. What happens is the spring in the 12 volt connector that makes contact between the fuse and the end piece that touches the 12 volt part of the cigarette lighter plug has been getting hot and collapsing. When it collapses it no longer makes contact and then it won’t work. I have been stretching the spring and putting it back it there, but it has finally gotten too weak to stay stretched. Since the supplemental braking system is made by Brake Buddy, I called them to see if they have a heavy duty spring I could put in there or if they have another solution. They offered to send me a new cord for free, so I will have to swap that out when I get it in the mail.

Until next time!

Las Cruces and Fast Trip Across Texas

We stopped in Las Cruces to visit our friends Donna and Roger. You may remember them from our previous blogs where we travelled with them from Texas to Quartzsite. Well on their way back from Arizona the engine in their motorhome threw a rod. Their motorhome is now at a Cummins dealer in El Paso getting worked on so they will be there awhile.

We stopped to visit and we went out to eat with them at La Posta de Mesilla.

The food was pretty good and the conversation was even better! Roger and Donna we hope everything turns out well with the motorhome!

The next morning we left Las Cruces and drove to Segovia, Texas to a little Passport America park for the night (about 450 miles). We left Segovia and drove all the way to Lake Charles (about 500 miles). Lake Charles is not that far from Segovia, but we had to detour around Lake Charles because both bridges around Lake Charles was closed down to one lane. The detour took us an hour and a half longer or we could have waited in traffic for 2 hours.

We are back at my brother and sister-in-law’s house south of Lake Charles for awhile. We are not sure how long, but we will see what happens.

Until next time!