Made It

We arrived in Yuma on Sunday afternoon. Raining all day today (We thought this was the desert!). Traveling is over for a while, next posts will be from here.

Escape From Ozona

We Finally were able to escape from Ozona (aka middle of nowhere). Finding the damaged fuel line and replacing it took about 3 hours, add a day lost for the weekend, half a day lost having the part shipped from civilization, a day lost because the wrong part was sent, a day lost because the repair shop manager forgot to reorder it, and half a day lost because after getting repaired and going 25 miles down the road the alternator went out and we had to go back and have that replaced. At least that only took about an hour. I am sure the alternator problem was partially caused by the other work, but it was also 12 years old.
If you do the math you can see it takes 4 days to do 4 hours worth of repairs in Ozona. At least I wasn't doing it, the mechanic was working outdoors in about 30 degree weather. We were staying in their lot so the rent was free. As nice a vacation spot as Ozona is, we left without looking back on Thursday morning.
We are now in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Tonya's cousin Marcus (and his wife Yvonne) live here so we stopped to visit. They had plans tonight so we are going to breakfast with them in the morning before continuing west.

Slight Trip Delay

While driving along I-10 yesterday afternoon diesel fuel started dumping from the engine compartment, I suspect from a fuel line failure. Only 250,000+ miles on the truck, guess they don't make them like they used to. Got off the hwy and towed a few miles to Ozona, TX where we are set up at a diesel repair "shop" (looks like they do all there work outdoors). We didn't want to pay the mechanics time and a half so they won't look at it until tomorrow. I am confident that it is not a major job and we will only be delayed a couple of days. Meanwhile we are plugged in to their power and water and will be home till then.

Ella Kay Has Arrived

Ella Kay Stavinoha made her debut to the world at 3:11 pm on November 28th.
Weighing in at 7 lbs 7 oz you can see from the pictures she is obviously the cutest baby on the planet.

Nana and Ella at the hospital.

An angel even when she cries.

Big brother Zack, Carrie and Ella.


Our work here is done. We're heading to Yuma.