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- Target date for departure is sometime during the week of 22-March-2015. Duration of the trip is approximately two months, with the target to return back to San Jose / Los Gatos by 29-May-2015. There is a yoga retreat at Tassajara Zen Monastery in Carmel Valley the weekend of 5-June which I want to attend after the trip.
- On this trip, I’ve forced myself to be more social by attending a teardrop trailer-only rally in S. California (Lake Perris, near Hemet), the weekend of 27-March. My cousin Marta and her husband Manny have a “desert home” near Mojave and asked me to visit there while I was in the area and their son, Frankie, was on his spring break from high school. I look forward to this, since Manny and I share the same fascination with old stuff and junk yards.
- My Aunt Dorla, cousin Pat, her husband Walter and my niece, Mary Laura are all anticipating that I will visit them in Livingston, TN in mid-April. I also look very much forward to this visit, since visits there have always been happy and I always feel very much at home while there. In addition, my next restoration project, a 1963 Airstream trailer, awaits me at my cousin’s goat farm. It’s mine to have and restore, a gift from my cousin, who wants it out of the way. On this trip, I plan to document the condition of the trailer much more thoroughly, and to plan how it can be moved to a TBD location. Tennessee is currently the easternmost portion of my planned trip.
- My godmother, Nellie Pill, is anxious to see me, after forty-some years. I was contacted her last Sunday (15-Mar) and we plan a visit during the first part of April in Flagstaff, AZ, weather permitting…
- The lady who lived with us and took care of me and my siblings in our pre-teens, Lupita Wilkinson, lives with her husband, Enrique, in Pirtleville, adjacent to Douglas, AZ. It has been close to ten years since I visited with them. I would like to do so on this trip.
- I want to make a side trip to El Paso, TX to visit the Evergreen Cemetery to find out exactly where my great-grandfather and his eldest daughter are buried. Last year, due to timing issues, there was no one at the cemetery to show me where he was buried, and the cemetery is quiet large (42 acres).
- Not sure at this point if I’ll be traveling to the Seattle area on this trip. If so, in addition to my cousins and uncle in that area, my former boss, Mike Gerhold has asked me to drop by if I’m in that neighborhood.
- Also, LinYi’s mother and sister have extended a warm invitation to visit them, if I make it up to the Vancouver area. I feel kind of strange being there if LinYi is not (LinYi didn’t seem to be bothered by the idea), but I know that Ali becomes quite agitated while I’m there.