Just 2 more weeks

Well, we have only a little over two weeks until Val and I are to be married.  We are going to have a private ceremony in Marfa, TX.  Marfa is a small town in West Texas in the Big Bend area.  We had planned a trip there a year ago and had to postpone it when I had back surgery.  And when we decided to get married, we thought it would be interesting to combine it with the already planned trip to the Big Bend National Park area.  Marfa is an artsy town of about 2000 which you can read about here.  We will be staying in the Hotel Paisano where the film Giant was filmed.  We plan to have the ceremony in the dome of the old courthouse where we will be married by Judge Cinderella (really) Guevera.

Marfa Courthouse

Hotel Paisano and Courthouse in Marfa

We will then drive down to the Big Bend area. The trip will take about a week.

Then at the end of April we plan to spend a week in Paris.  Val has never been and it has been about 35 years since I was there with Sally and the kids.

My CowGirl

Not much else has happened since the last post except that I ordered and received a Tesla automobile.  Tesla is an all electric vehicle made in California with a range of about 250 miles on a charge.  It is fun trying to figure out all the stuff on this futuristic vehicle and it is fun to drive.  We still need our other car for longer trips that are not in the range of chargers.  For now, the Superchargers are available in parts of Texas in in many parts of California and in some other states.  Within a year or so, there are supposed to be many more scattered across the country.  We can get around in the Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio areas by using the Tesla Superchargers.  Other chargers are available also, but I haven't tried them.  We drove up to Fort Worth to show the car to Craig, who is now working there (although he is setting up an office in Solana Beach south of Carlsbad, CA).  We had no problem on that 700 mile trip.