The plan today was to get up early and get
stuff rearranged in the trailer so the bikes could be loaded; we wanted to be
ready to rock n’ roll as soon as church was over. Church starts at 11 so we had to hop to it to
be ready in time. I was up just before 8
a.m....quietly left the trailer to head to the bathroom and on the way back
formulated an April Fool’s joke to play on Kim.
I don’t do well with April Fool’s jokes.
Oh, I’m easy enough to fool; I just can’t think of jokes to play on
other people, jokes that they’ll fall for.
But today I had an idea…and I was going to rock it. I was going to sneak in the trailer and wake
Kim saying it was already 10 o’clock, blah, blah, blah. It would have worked too except that when I
quietly opened the door he was standing there, getting dressed. Oh, ding dang! 😕
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Man,
we were poetry in motion transforming our home away from home back into a bike
trailer. I went to work on the inside…putting
away shelves, rolling up sleeping bags, deflating and folding air mattress,
etc. Kim cooked up the last of the eggs then started cleaning/packing the
outside stuff…cooking equipment, lawn chairs, cooler, etc. Trailer was ready for the bikes by 10…I took
up the garbage on my way to take a shower while Kim put the wheel chocks back
in then loaded and secured the bikes. He
even had the truck hooked to the trailer by the time I got back. Went to church and checked out when we got
back. Yep, it was a smooth
operation.
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Easter
morning! We knew we wouldn’t be going to
the 6:30 a.m. sunrise service/breakfast the Picacho church had planned for this morning but
we were able to make it to the 11 o’clock service. Fifty-two people in attendance today! And since this little church still uses
hymnals to sing, I was hoping that we’d be singing what I consider to be Easter
classics…’Up From The Grave He Arose’ and ‘He Lives’ are two of my
favorites. We sang both of those plus ‘Jesus
Paid it All’. And the sermon took a
different angle on the events of Easter…what if the walls of the tomb could
talk. An interesting way to look at what
transpired on this day so long ago. I’ll
miss this little church with its small but faithful congregation and look
forward to worshiping with them again next year.
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| Heading eastward.... |
Checked
out of camp and were on the road by 12:45 p.m. Put a deposit down to reserve lot #35 for the month of March 2019. We might tweak the dates but so far March has
worked well for escaping late winter Michigan weather. The campground was looking bare…more than
half of the RVs that were there when we arrived were gone before today. The heat is coming and people are moving on...the
next week is forecasted for high 80s to 90s everyday. Some businesses are closing soon, too. Sort of like Charlevoix in the winter months. The KOA will be closing end of April or
mid-May….and the owners head north to the Flagstaff area for the summer. Too hot in Picacho. 😐
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It
felt strange to be leaving a place that had been home for 4 weeks. We weren’t just random campers coming in for
an overnight…we were known. Some of the
RVers have been there each of the past 3 years when we’ve been there. But there’s anticipation too about returning
to our lives. I hate to leave the
sunshine and warmth we’ve been experiencing in Arizona…I’ve been wearing short
sleeved shirts, shorts and sandals the entire time. Sometimes a sweatshirt felt good but that was
usually after the sun set. And I know
that Michigan has been getting hit with snow the whole time we’ve been gone, so
we’re heading back into the Land of Long Sleeves, Pants and Socks. Oh, well…it's home.
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Made
it to Alamagordo, New Mexico for the night and moved the clocks ahead an hour
in the process. Both Arizona and New
Mexico are in the Mountain Time Zone but New Mexico observes Daylight Saving
Time and Arizona does not. So we started
our move back toward ‘normal’ time. Always
takes me longer to adjust going back home than coming out here.
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New
Mexico wants to make sure that drivers know the correct procedure in the event
of a dust storm. Three times with we
came across a series of 5 road signs that said, in this order:
In a Dust Storm…Pull Off Roadway…Turn Vehicle
Off…Feet Off Brakes…Stay Buckled
In
Arizona, signs say: During Limited
Visibility…Pull Off Road…Turn On Lights
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