Friday the 13th

Friday the 13^th

We both had a rather poor night's sleep last night, Tia was quite restless beginning about 2:00 AM. We took turns giving her a little fuss, she settled for a while (we didn't) then she started again until about 5:00AM. We finally got up about eight, Tia about half an hour later!

Still no word from Lightning Glass, though Mike from the bike shop called: the shifter was in and they would do it while we waited. We headed out around noon. At the shop no one could find Mike, or where he had put the shifter! About 10 minutes later he wandered in, coffee cup in hand!

While Mike went to work we went across the street to the Bird Bakery for lunch where we had very good turkey sandwiches and OK coffee. We just managed to find a seat in the very busy establishment. We were surprised to note the demographics: Of the 40 to 50 patrons, only 4 were men. A significant portion were 20 to 30 something ladies. Art remarked that he was surprised that there weren't a lot more single males! Repeating this comment back at the bike shop one of other customers laughed and said he had thought the same thing earlier.

Mike was fine tuning the shifting and soon we were done and back on the road by 2:00 PM. One stop at HEB for groceries and another box of Franzia wine then home. (Though in all honesty we do consider wine to be a food group.)

Next on the must do list: Phone Lightning Glass. Art was told that the glass had left Oregon on yesterday and was in California. He thought it might be here by tomorrow but didn't know for sure. He promised to call Art back with a tracking number. An hour or so later he called back.

A search on the internet found the shipper's website (Thanks Mr Google.) and Art entered the tracking number. It was shipped on the 11^th, arrived in Fontana CA at 6:30 this morning. Estimated delivery date in San Antonio: the 17^th. We arrived here on the 27^th of October. To compare with our last trip down this way, on November 17 2013 we arrived in Zihuatanejo.

We have been in the USA much longer than estimated and are rapidly depleting our US cash. Hope to keep enough at least for fuel on the way home in the spring. By now we should have been spending pesos!

Dinner tonight was again in the activities room, Pot Roast, green beans, mashed potatoes, salad and chocolate/marble cake. Sure beats cooking and doing dishes!

On another note, we heard heard this afternoon from friends and neighbours from home who will be arriving at this RV park on the 21^st! As it is very unlikely that we will be able to leave here before the 19^th we may elect to stay a couple more days for a visit.

This delay has also meant that we probably won't detour to Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta on the way south since timing will be very tight and we will in any case be in PV in late February. To spend 2 nights and one day in each of Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta and 7 or 8 days travelling from here to there and in between would put us late into Zihuatanejo, where we will be leaving earlier than usual (Mid February) because of commitments in PV.

Scheduling our lives was almost easier when we were working for a living. Not that we regret retirement!