Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Update

Weather here in the Mojave begins to swelter, not blistering yet but definitely hitting some 90s. Assuming our health holds out (never certain at our advanced ages), we will be in our summer place 500+ miles north within the month. 

There is always a fair amount of getting ready to migrate, and we've made a start. We begin a process we call "eating the refrigerator down" meaning planning to leave very little in the freezer and less in the cooler alongside. 

We make the trip with our newish full-size Ford F-150 hybrid pickup. The truck bed has a lockable hard cover, meaning we can transport quite a lot under cover (out of sight) and semi secure. Not precisely nimble around town, it cruises the interstates like a dream at a legal 80 mph.

It is a biannual process we have repeated with minor variations for the last 30+ years. We have a busy next few weeks.

Later ... Friday's high is predicted to go over 100℉.