Monday, July 21st --- Snags

Progress in preparing to get on the road is slow.  The usual trip-delaying snags are beginning to pop up, a couple of them serious. Three years ago it was the seven visits I had to make to the vets in the two weeks before I was to leave and then the overheating problem with the Defender.  Two years ago it was Leben's spine surgery. Last year it was Erde's oral cancer.  I'll hold off discussing this year's snags until I get confirmation of their seriousness, but right now it looks like I will not be able to leave until maybe August 11 or 12, the same as last year. That's fine, because one of the things I have come to expect before or on these trips are the snags.  I'll just deal with them as I have dealt with them in the past, and then move on.