October in KY

(There's a post below this one that got out of order. Sorry.)

Well, I know it's no longer October. And we're not in Kentucky any more. But I thought it was about time I caught the blog up to date. Although it actually wasn't that long ago that we left Mexico, it seems a lot longer, I guess, because we've covered (literally) so much ground since then.

We left Ajijic on Sunday morning, Sept. 3o, with the intention of stopping in Saltillo, about 3 hours south of Laredo, for the night. It was an easy trip that day. The dogs were very happy to be back in their minivan habitat. We only got turned around once in Lagos de Moreno, not too bad. We could only contrast our ease and comfort with the wariness and apprehension crossing the border by car back in May. Now we felt like old hands. As we neared Saltillo about dusk, I kept looking for the large American-style hotels I knew were coming up and where we planned to stop. (I knew one of them allowed dogs--not easy in Mexico.) We kept driving, never passed those hotels, but about 9 pm we saw the lights of Monterrey ahead of us. Hmm. Having missed our stopping point and realizing we were only an hour and a half from the border, we decided to go for it. We knew it was a superhighway all the way and well-traveled. No problems at all, crossed the border about 11:00 that evening. The next day we crossed Texas, stopping in Texarkana for the night. Then home to Frankfort the next night. 3 very long, but easy days, and about 1600 miles.

Susannah flew to KY to visit the first weekend and we had a gathering at the house with her, Mark and Mindy and Pam and Steve. Then we went to work getting the house ready to go on the market. Bob had lots of handy-man jobs. I spent more time clearing out closets and various nooks and crannies in the house. We made two trips to the dump and numerous trips to Goodwill. Feels good to purge!! So we attended to all those things, loaded up a rental truck with stuff for Corey and Candy, and drove back south to Alabama. Kentucky was in our rearview mirrors for the time being. Ahead of us were two months in Fairhope, AL, then January in Tarpon Springs, FL, and after that we weren't sure.