Changng Our Change of Plans

I haven’t been keeping up with the blog the way I had planned. Sorry about that. I’ll try to do better.

In case you didn’t know, our plans changed once again. We were finally forced to take our van into the body shop to repair the damage done from the deer hit in Tennessee. The blinker and the right front head light had stopped working and it was getting dangerous to drive, so we took it to the body shop.

In place of the van, we had a Toyota Camry rental car. It was smaller than the van, but at least we’d have a vehicle with a right blinker and head light for our trip north, right? Wrong. The rental car company was happy to let us take the vehicle out of state. The only proviso was that we would have to pay mileage on all of the miles we racked up outside of Florida. If we had made the trek to Viroqua, it would have cost us more than $2,000. The decision: no trip to Viroqua.

So that means that we can get back on our original schedule, right? Wrong again. Right now, we are supposed to be in Pensacola, Florida. The past few weeks we were supposed to be in the Everglades, at a state park near Sarasota and at a campground near Cedar Key. None of those things have happened. Instead, we’ve stayed at our base in Port St. Lucie. Here’s why.

First, Kim’s parents have come to Florida for a visit, so we’ll be spending some time with them up in Orlando. Also, we had planned on taking the kids to see the Space Shuttle launch on January 10. Unfortunately, the launch was delayed and is now scheduled for February 7. Rather than miss the launch, we’ve decided to stay put so we can see it.

Perhaps the most important reason we haven’t left my parents house is that the RV isn’t ready to hit the road. It is having some electrical problems, so we have to get that fixed before we can continue on with our journey.

At this point, I’ve given up on trying to stick to any sort of schedule. We’ll just have to see what happens when it happens.