Pre-RTW Miami Plans … ✔

Sunday, 21 February 2016
Maverick Ranch RV Park — Lajitas, Texas

It’s been a busy winter for us … traveling in the motorhome to see new-to-us parts of the US.  We’ve been exploring Texas — heading further south and further west from our RV pad in Port Aransas — except for the week we left the country on a Caribbean cruise to celebrate Mui’s birthday.  (You can read about it here, if interested … total of three posts.)

I’ve been spending free time during the road trip researching ports of call on our RTW itinerary.  I made some headway, but there is certainly still a lot of work ahead of me.  In the meantime, it’s been quiet on the blog … nothing exciting to write about.  Until today.

Actually, I don’t know that exciting is the right description for today’s topic.  But it sure gives me a sense of relief to know that not only have we decided on the dates for our pre-RTW Miami stay, but that we’ve taken care of a few of the associated logistics, too.

We’ve been waffling for months between staying a week in Miami … or staying two weeks … or staying just a couple of days.  Well, today we decided to cut way back on our pre-voyage stay.  O is already giving us a day by putting us up in Miami the night before we embark Insignia on 6 January.  So, we’re adding just one additional day, making it a two-night stay.  Nice as it would have been to do some sightseeing in and around Miami, we will likely have too many last minute things to do at home before such a momentous trip to be off gallivanting in Florida.  We’ll do that another time.

We took time off from sightseeing this morning to handle some of the logistics associated with our decision.  The flight to Miami on 4 January is booked — one-way award tickets from IAH to MIA … the July 6 return date doesn’t open for ticketing until August.  We picked an early morning flight so that we can make the most of the day in Miami.  Living in a motorhome, that means we need to put our “condo on wheels” in storage the day before we fly out.  With that in mind, a hotel at IAH for 3 January was the next thing we took care of — ‘Pricelined’ a room as usual and got the Hyatt Place this time.

Feeling good about today’s accomplishments.  We’ll deal with the rest of the pre- and post-voyage logistics at a later date … time to go have lunch at the Starlight Theater in the Terlingua Ghost Town.

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