With but three full days to go before we leave for our sojourn West, we are greeted this morning by Central Ohio's first snow of the season. We had planned to put the garden to bed for the winter by cutting the plants and placing them on the ground to be covered by leaves our landscaper will dump there (makes a nice compost by Spring). But the heavy, wet white stuff tells us we'll spend the day inside, packing.
This change in the weather reminds us just why we enjoy going to West Texas and the desert/mountains of Big Bend National Park. We may see snow a morning or two when the are at the Park but it will be a rare event. We are being nudged in the direction we are already eager to travel!
Packing for the trip isn't just a suitcase kind of thing. Since we are not pulling the trailer because we will have an apartment to live in at the Park, we have to pack a great deal of the things we have in the trailer into the back of the F-150. The apartment has furniture but no kitchen-ware or linens. In addition, we take our electronic and computer equipment so that we can work on the Oral History project at the Park without our having to use a work-station at the Park's headquarters. All this stuff makes for a full F-150.
To complicate the process, we are making plans to sell our home when we return in the Spring to downsize to a twin-single in a continuing care community for seniors. Some 'staging' of the house is necessary as the Realtor may show the house while we are away.
Even preparing to be on the road again is something of an experience.
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