Dispatch from the Road 2019-2020

 January/February 2019 In keeping with our tradition, during the years we haven’t gone to Florida for winter we have done a project at the house.  Blessed with mild weather we converted our screened porch which is built into the corner of the house into a three-season room.  We had the windows custom made to fit the openings of the screen room and assembled it ourselves. We added electrical outlets, ceiling fans, roller shades and cable TV. In keeping with southern tradition, we painted the ceiling blue to ward off evil spirits. The tile floor was almost new, we only had to reglue some tiles that had come loose, probably from the water that blew thru the screens every time it rained. For climate control we installed a small heat pump. May 2019 A friend and former co-worker from Chrysler and his wife bought a house down the street from us. Gary and Diane bounced back and forth between here and their home up north for a time but eventually made Myrtle Beach their home. June...

 The lost years 2019 – 2020 I am writing this blog in 2024 and will post it online, but I really don’t expect anyone will read it after all this time. Millie and I have chronicled our travels every year since 2012 and printed it in book form at the end of each year. This is my effort to recall, write and hopefully print the two missing years. How it all began and what happened in 2019-2020 In 2010 I started the Dispatch as a small group email back when I was traveling alone, well not quite alone, I had my dog Maggie. I put “Dispatch from the Road” in the subject line so it would stand out amongst all the junk email and I sent it to a few select friends. In my inexperience I once accidently sent it to all my contacts, and to my surprise a large number of them asked to be left on the distribution list. That’s how it all started. In 2012 when Millie and I were making plans for what would become the annual “Great Summer Road Trip” I decided it would be easier to put the Dispatch online...