Steve and Judy's Travels!

We all moved our cars and golf carts offsite before they got stranded.  We can hike through the mess to get to our cars, then go wherever we need to go.  The road out the gate is still open.

It’s a little inconvenient packing the motorhome right now.  We park the golf cart as close as we can get it, carry stuff out to it, then ferry it to the motorhome.  A little slower process than normal, but not a big deal.

Heavy equipment.

There is a steamroller in the background, with spikes all on it for compacting the soil.  “Steamroller” seems like such a dated term.  I doubt there has been any steam involved for a lot of years.  I wonder if there is a more current name.

And progress.

Now it’s May, and we’re still at 4,219 miles to Fairbanks (but not for much longer).

223 birds remaining to get to 500 for the year (at the rate of one new bird a day, that’s a 22-bird cushion).

30 continuing education hours to go.

And 138 counties in which to report a bird to have all 254 counties in Texas!

Here is a rose-breasted grosbeak

A contented squirrel.

And my favorite billboard.

The road out front of our house got ragged.  This week, and last, we have a new road going in.

This will be more sophisticated than all the other roads in the park.  It’s going to have cement gutters!

And no potholes.  They’re taking the old asphalt all the way out, re-contouring the dirt below, and repaving.

Today, we even got a road grader!

We appear to be about halfway through the project.

Here is my take on what the health insurance industry does.  They allocate the cost of a person’s healthcare over the expected remaining life of the person.  If you project what your health care costs will be for the rest of your life, add in administrative costs and a profit motive for the insurance company, and divide it by your years remaining, that’s what your premium will be.  The insurance companies don’t provide any healthcare.  They don’t fix any broken bones.  They don’t cure anything.  They just provide a financing arrangement.

Isn’t that the kind of thing a government should be able to do; finance your healthcare?  That wouldn’t be government-run healthcare, that would just be the government performing an administrative task and taking a layer of private profit incentive out of the system!