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[etienettebluet]

Home again on Thanksgiving Thursday.  We're thankful to have a car that deals well in snowy situations and that we didn't pile up at the bottom of an icy, steep hill in Des Moines Wednesday night with six other vehicles.  Perhaps I should begin at the beginning.  Last Friday we made preparations for a cat sitter, loaded up ALL the wool blankets and headed up to Madison, Wisconsin Saturday-Sunday.  Sunday we made a vacation of the day scooting all over Madison hitting thrift stores and Habitat Re-stores.  Monday we went to see the 2014 Aliner... It surprised Leofwyna being 10 instead of 12 feet but it does have two separate twin-size beds and all the bells and whistles we'd thought we could do without but the great price on this one meant we could have it all.  And without the cost of a much longer trip to New York State for the very basic and 'stripped' alternati  Two big skylights, heater, AC and water heater, water tank, sink, stove, 3-way refrigerator and all.  We arranged to pick it up Tuesday and did some more running around Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.  It had snowed 4" in Madison Monday night but we were getting around just fine.  After picking up the camper (Call me Al) we got on the road and ended up stopping that night in Grinnell (east of Des Moines) as it was snowing along our route.