OUR FIRST POST !!!

Had not planned on doing a blog .... but enough of you have shamed us into it. CONGRATULATIONS !!!!! Hurray for our technological evolution !!! Although the trip has been full of new horizons and experiences ...... the weather has been terrible ( only hit 70 twice in two months) and we are about a month behind schedule because of electrical problems surrounding the wiring of the RV to BettyBoop ( our tow car...) Quick catch up for those of you who did not know : We are on an extended one year trip by RV to see the US, Mexico and on up to Alaska. So far, we have been VERY impressed with every state we have seen! Florida has so MANY awesome state parks (we actually kayaked down a pristine river flowing from a natural spring that HAD WILD MONKEYS in the trees by the rivers edge - they were left over loose from the making of the Tarzan movie years ago.) Louisianna / New Orleans was a blast, although the touring of all the neighborhoods affected by Katrina seriously made us sick to our stomachs...... Oddly, camped at a place called "Catfish Heaven" and ate at a place called "Possums"....ate our first crawfish at the one and only genuine tour of the TABASCO sauce company factory, where we also had JALEPENO ICE CREAM! ...... Casinos in Mississippi were fun, and the state Parks in Louisianna were impressive in SURPRISINGLY their educational nature centers. In Texas, we ate in very unusual places ..... such as a restaurant that used to be a CHURCH ( the alter was now a bar!!) and also a restaurant which used to be an elaborate BANK ! Saw first hand an oil rig which was interesting, and the ACTUAL Houston Control NASA, and the rooms where the astronauts train (didn't see any in diapers though.....) We have come face to face with wild armidillos and alligators and are on the eve of our crossing the border from Brownsville TX into Mexico where we plan to stay for one to two months- depending on how things go. Will try to keep posting regularly, but internet connection in Mexico may well be spotty and costly.