Leaving VT

Today is Monday January 15th, 2024. It is hard to believe that we are already 2 weeks into 2024, time does fly the older you get. We plan to leave this morning around 8AM for the cold Mid West. 

The impetus for this trip is to see our neighbors in Minnesota, Tom and Lori. We met Tom and Lori in 2019 when they rented the house just south of us and we quickly became good friends. After two years in VT they decided they wanted to stay. They purchased property in the spring of 2022 a few house to the north of us and began extensive renovations on that property. Unfortunately, Lori became ill in the summer of 2023 and they returned to Minneapolis around Thanksgiving to be with family and get the best treatments for Lori. 

It is winter and the snow is not good for sledding or skiing, so we decided to make a road trip to not only see Lori and Tom but stop and visit some other family along the way. We plan to visit brother my brother Richie's family in Illinois as well as my Aunt Carol and her family north of Minneapolis, MN. 

We were on the fence over which vehicle to drive, but that decision got made for us yesterday when all the pretty lights lit up on my truck dashboard. It is probably a wheel sensor or something simple like that, but it will have to wait until we return to be looked at. So we will drive our new (4924 miles) Lincoln Corsair with summer tires, although the weather is supposed to be clear and it is AWD. 



So far we have had a mild winter in the VT but in MN the highs this week will be in the single digits, we are not looking forward to that part of it, but i twill be nice to see our peoples. 

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