Long-Time-No-Post Update

I'm not sure where to begin...... Today is Friday March 7, 2014. We are in Anchorage AK (at home). We arrived back here on Monday Feb. 24. The things we have seen and done since my last post have been incredible, awesome, and too overwhelming to even explain! Our travels have taken us through Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The reason for no blogging in over a month is because most of the places we are camping are National Parks and State Parks. For some reason both the Wi-Fi and the cell phone know exactly the moment we cross into National park territory because they both start "searching" for signals. It is very disappointing! On-the-other-hand, once we get to a location that has Wi-Fi, I don't feel like sitting in front of the computer adding pictures and updating the blog (I'd rather be enjoying the outdoors!) ANYWAY..... We have visited with family in Arkansas (Greg's step-family)where it was cold, we visited with my aunt and uncle outside of Ft. Worth (where it was cold), we toured the Caverns of Sonora in Texas (NOT cold!), hiked a million-gazillion miles in Big Bend National Park in Texas (it was COLD), took an up close and personal tour of Carlsbad Caverns (it was cold outside but a pleasant 56 inside), hiked the tallest peak in Texas (Guadalupe Peak at 8749 feet and it was windy and cold), hiked and climbed around Huevo Tanks State Park outside of El Paso TX (it was very pleasant weather), got to hike and explore the Gila Cliff Dwellings area in New Mexico (cold at night but nice during the day), drove across the Continental Divide outside of Deming NM, camped, hiked and biked in the Coronado National Forest, hiked the magnificent rock formations at Chirachua (cheer-a-cow-ah) National Monument, and finally ended this portion of our trip in Green Valley AZ and spent a wonderful 2 nights at the best place ever to park your RV...Cynthia and Karl's house! I have added a slide show to the right side of the page which shows some of our hike in Chirachua National Monument and the slide show at the top of the page is of Big Bend National Park. I will try to figure out how to get more slide shows loaded. We are back on the road Tues. Mar. 11, where we'll hook up with the RV in Phoenix. From there it will be lots of stops as we make our way back to Anchorage for May flowers!