The Erkharts have landed

It's been an interesting 26 days....

On October 30th, we sold our condo. (Thank you, Vanessa Holmes!)
On October 31st, the wife left her job.
On November 1st, we headed out to visit a few friends before taking off for parts sort-of-unknown.

We hung out with the Taylors for an evening, then up to the Forsters' place in Fort Collins, where the ever amazing and talented Zach worked on some custom woodwork for the RV while Jeff helped and the wives watched and visited.

On November 5th, we hopped a plane to Munich and then Athens to putz around in Greece for 10 days eating good food and taking pictures of old stuff.  There are tons of stories and pictures that we haven't processed yet.  Maybe there will be future posts...

We got back to Fort Collins and chilled for a few days with the Forsters again, recovering from mega-jetlag and reassuring the kittens that we weren't leaving them again any time soon!  Jeff and Zach also installed the woodworking projects - they absolutely deserve their own post!

On Monday, November 20th, we hugged everyone goodbye, battened down the hatches on the RV and hit the road - SOUTH.

We know we said Seattle, but while we were chilling in Fort Collins, we were actually freezing our butts off in the RV. So, North wasn't looking good, at least for now.  We WILL go North, just not until after winter.

First stop, Trinidad, CO.  Trinidad Lake State Park is beautiful!!

The next morning, it was off to Lubbock, TX.  6 white-knuckled hours later, we arrived.  Holy crap, the wind!  Keeping the RV on the road was a total upper body workout.   (The Imp is basically a medium sized box on wheels that catches every breeze and pushes it around - A LOT.) Add to that some close calls with crazy drivers.  We didn't rack up a ton of miles, but by the end of the day we were exhausted!

Day three ended in the burbs of Austin, TX with us crashing at a KOA for the night. There were no sites there with any hookups, so we basically paid to bookdock for the night. : P

The next two days, we visited with the wonderfully accommodating Lisa and Thorvi while we did laundry and hunted for a spot to park for the next 4 months.  (Thanks for the talks and walks Lisa!)

And today, we landed at a nice RV park in Georgetown, TX where we can put down some temporary roots and stop driving for a little while.  (The kittens appreciate this - as soon as they hear car keys jingle, they freak out a little and run for cover in the under bed storage (a.k.a. The Garage).  

We're about 45-60 minutes north-ish of Austin, sort of in the burbs, out of in the country.  We got an end spot, so we've only got 1 neighbor - the other side is a field.  There are tiny little sheep in the field next door too - baa!

The people are friendly in person, but as soon as they get behind the wheel, it's all agro, all the time.

The next big step is for us to find some temporary work to make a bit of $$$ while we're here.

Stay tuned for when we can get a post up with some cool pics from Greece...