Lucy’s Flight The girls all left for Australia at the start of June. Macklin and I decided to stay behind until we could get Lucy on a flight. Lucy couldn’t land anywhere in Australia but Melbourne and with Covid in full swing there is was few flights to Australia and Melbourne being further away from …
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Electric Power Update – Trying to Avoid Tripping the Generator
Plan A: 2800w peak generator Didn’t work. Well not sufficiently that it was worth carrying around such a big generator. Plan B/C : Charge cable from the truck alternator. Works and is great if you just need to get a bit of power and it’s cold and raining outside. Running a 6.7L motor is …
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Solar
We need internet and power for laptops from 3pm to 9pm five days a week for the kids school. I wired all our routers including the Mofi cellular router and our voip phone to the 12v battery through voltage converters however the kids laptop batteries don’t last 6 hours. We tried cheap inverters from Walmart …
1,2 skip a few La Peñita de Jaltemba
We have settled in to the RV park at La Penita for a week of much needed R & R for Sally and myself and exams for the kids after a bit of hustle and bustle to get here. We had to drive into the outskirts of Guadalajara to get diesel exhaust fluid. I had …
Santa Clara Del Cobre
We caught a couple of combi buses to Santa Clara. This is a small town just outside Pátzcuaro that specializes in copper work. We chatted to an ex-teacher that worked in Melbourne for a few years and has now retired to Santa Clara. He pays $75 a month for rent and sells sugar cane juice …
On the Road to San Juan Benito Juarez
Well the sat nav took us for another detour through the old town today. The road we took was marked on the map as a yellow road which is a major road. We later looked at google maps and found that the road we should have taken was in the opposite direction onto the toll …
Matehuala to San Miguel de Allende
Some days you are just not thinking too straight. We changed our minds late last night and decided not to stop at Gogorron for the hot springs. The resort looked like it catered more for hotel guests than rv’ers and I thought we could catch up with hot springs another time. The result was that …
Clarksdale
Our first taste of Southern hospitality. We intended to stop for one night in Clarksdale however after a visit to the beautiful visitors centre located in the old railway station we were convinced by Bubba (Ken Murphey) the new Tourism Director to stay for a couple of days. Bill Sutton an ex History Teacher …
On the Road to Clarksdale
Start of the Blues District A visit to the Tunica Casino Crossing the Mississippi Fort Curtis Civil War Fort Replica in Arkansas Cotton Fields Antebellum housing ( Pre-Civil War)
Memphis – Taking Care of Business in a Flash
A ride in a pink Cadillac. A Visit to Graceland and meal of peanut butter and banana sandwiches. A visit to “The Bass Shop”. A man’s toy shop of boats, ATVs, guns, fishing and camping gear. All too expensive for us. Graceland