Should have given that more thought

[aadler]

On balance, I think the timing of our latest RV expedition was a mistake.

We’ll use this to our benefit appointments we still have back in our ‘home base’ state, it probably would have been better for us to stay another month. And we most likely will, once we go back at the beginning of April. Before then, we’ll be visiting my stepsister in the Branson area in a few days, and might stop by to see my younger brother — in a different area of Missouri — before we start back.

(Of course, before that I’ll almost certainly have to make a quick there-and-back trip to renew our vehicle licenses. Somehow I missed that before we started off.)

Meanwhile, Susan has enjoyed having plenty of time to spend with one of her oldest friends (seriously, they met about the time our daughter started first grade, which daughter turns 40 in barely over a week). And the place we’re staying is quiet and pleasant and decently restful. Last time we were here, we were frustrated by seriously deficient wifi … but now they offer cellular hotspots for a small extra charge, and that’s worked out perfectly for us.

Tomorrow I’ll start making calls to work out where we’ll stay when we go to Branson. All the RV advice sites stress doing that kind of thing well in advance, but for three and a half years we’ve been able to get away with winging it. I don’t doubt that we’ll manage something, this being not exactly rush season for Branson.

We’ll see.