FLORIDA GYPSIES RETURN HOME!!!
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| He we are on a camp out with the kids. |
We are back home and finally rested up...for now! Linda and I have traveled with the circus mainly all over the US and have logged in over 35,000 miles on the road with the Carson and Barnes Circus.
It has been a wonderful and rewarding time, but we are taking a time out. For sleep and because we want to be near my Mom and visit her. She isn't doing that well. There is no sleeping on the road with the circus and so we catching up. Also, we ran into some difficulties with a house leak and replacing both AC units. So that puts a crimp in our style. The circus REALLY REALLY wanted us to come back and we shall miss the kids, but we gotta do what we gotta do. Moving every day has its ups and downs. We visited many small towns--some we went to didn't even have a WALMART!
We finished up in September, 2012 and headed to Texas. We got jobs working in the oil field business. We had to take tests to become security guards in Texas. Linda made a perfect score and I missed one question. We are good to go for 2 years. The licensing is done in Dallas-Fort Worth. We played tourists while working our way south where the jobs are. On the way to our South, Texas site, we got to ride horses. It was a great experience and a lot of fun. We were excited to learn what living in the desert was all about. After all, we are both Florida natives. Jobs open and close up pretty fast. We wondered, would we get on?
We did get to spend a few months (September to February 2013) in south Texas being gate guards. Its a hush, hush sort of thing. You are signing in/out people visiting old wells on some rancher's land. But, we can't talk about it much other than to say generalities. We were in South Texas about 70 miles from Laredo, TX. about 15 miles from the Rio Grande. The few people there were real nice and the rig people are very polite. It's a great place to save money since there is nothing around. We made monthly trips to Laredo or San Antonio to go for supplies. Otherwise...............................................Wasn't much there but cactus, dust, and illegal Mexicans coming across the border.
We plan to talk about places we have visited and put them on the blog. I have lots of notes, memories, and stuff. So, stay tuned and welcome back....if you are new, welcome too!
