Cage Free Family

I'm here! Internet is spotty in the desert ;-)

Let see, where did we leave off....Oh, yes....living in our minivan with a South Korean film crew...how could I forget?!

During this time the film crew wanted to get footage of our old house, so we took them by so that they could get that, and some interviews with the neighbors. The interviews were great as our kind neighbors told fun stories about us, missed us, and wished us well. They also pointed out how very sad they were when they saw the landlords come by and mow down the beautiful organic garden we had put in. We were pretty sad too, though not nearly as sad as we would be when it was pointed out that they also came in a mere days after we left and removed the hideously dangerous items from the back yard that we had been asking them to take care of for a year. These things, including a jagged, rusted, sharp metal gas pipe (that was leaking gas when we moved in) kept us from being able to relax in our back yard with the kids. It was just too dangerous. How very sad that they would refuse to remove them for the safety of our children (though par for their course) but would come out days after we left and take them down.

After a fun three days of that, we finally received the call from the automotive shop around 6pm on Thursday (I think) that our RV was good to go! Wahhoooo!! We all, film crew, family and photojournalists alike, did the literal happy dance; complete with jumping and arm waving. ;-p

So we all loaded up in the minivan, with Ben in his truck following behind, and headed back to Georgetown to pick up our RV and move it to an actual RV park. By 10pm we were finally hooked up at the New Life RV Park, showered and oh so very, very ready for bed.
Ben kindly dropped our Korean friends at their hotel on his way back to town as they had come with no car of their own. ;-p

Moment by moment the minor dramas and excitements have kept up, leading me to have a new mantra "It's never boring!" that seems to have caught on within our little group. LOL

We hit the road from Georgetown to Brady, TX and found a beautiful little park and campground and a brief reprieve from the excitement.

I want to tell you more about Brady and the beautiful girl that I met there and I'll also throw in a bit about a madwoman chasing us from the San Angelo State Park ;-)

Yesterday, after a truly excellent trip to Well Body Natural Foods in Lubbock we were stocked, well fed and ready to hit the road to Santa Rosa, New Mexico.
About halfway, we stopped in Clovis and spent a really peaceful, rejuvenating few hours at their park and zoo where Neeka communed with the monkeys.

By 5 pm we were in the RV again on the highway to Santa Rosa. Not far into the trip though we were stopped for a little over an hour because the little two-way highway was shut down due to an accident. We, and many other people, got out of our cars and walked in the cool breeze brought by the desert evening and watched the rainstorm off in the distance. It's the first time that I felt good about being stopped in traffic.

We rolled into San Angelo around 7:30 last night and found paradise. The Santa Rosa Campground is awesome. We couldn't have asked for nicer scenery and the cool, dry breeze is positively heavenly. I woke up this morning having slept so well with the fresh air coming in the open windows, in the absence of the drone of the AC, that I didn't want to leave.

I feel such a sense of relief here with the heat of Texas behind us and all the peace and beauty ahead of us.

Today we are moving on to Taos and will be staying there for a few days, taking a breather from the road and enjoying what Taos has to offer.

If you're in the Taos area, drop us a line! We'd love to meet some new friends in person!
I hear there are more than a few like-minded people in the area ;-)

I am without a camera, but Ben is going to share a few pictures of the things I've written about so far. I hope to get them posted today.
I'm working on the camera issue...