The first weekend in November we were able to drive down the Talimena scenic drive from Talihina, Oklahoma to Mena, Arkansas and it delivered! The colors were amazing. After arriving in Mena we traveled up to Fort Smith which was also very pretty and spent the night there before heading home the following morning.
The thermostatically controlled heated hose is plugged in, the blankets and warm jackets are out and ready to use and the propane tank is full so we are ready for the winter to come. Our last two winters in the RV have been pretty mild with respect to snow and ice - not like the winter we had 13" of snow on Christmas Eve! We were still in our house then. Everybody is saying we are supposed to have a hard winter so we may get a taste of some significant snow and ice this year. At least we are parked under a metal cover so that should protect us a bit from it piling up on top of our coach.
We are in the process of downsizing some of our vehicles and things. We have had two cars where we live in Newcastle and another vehicle at our lot near Lake Arbuckle that we use to get around down there and it tows our boat and waverunner. This past week we traded one of our cars off for a Jeep Wrangler and hopefully have a buyer for our vehicle at our lake lot. Now all we need are buyers for our motorcycle and our car and bike hauler that we use behind our RV. So the jeep will replace our motorcycle -- we can take the top off and have 4 wheels under us instead of 2. It will be nice to be down to two vehicles. We can tow the jeep behind the RV with all 4 wheels on the ground which will be much easier than loading it on a trailer.
John has Thanksgiving off so we are hoping the weather is good enough for us to travel to our lake lot in Sulphur and spend the holiday there. I hope all of you have had a wonderful Fall season as well.
