Big Mama and the Love Bugs

A pair of the infamous love bugs

For all you Big Mama fans, just a quick story. Being a responsible (???) Roadtrek RV owner, I picked up Big Mama on Sunday to check her out and take a drive to charge the batteries before my one month absence.  Maybe it was related to her feeling of being left behine, but as we headed out for exercise driving in the countryside, suddenly the sound of heavy rainy drops hitting the windshield, followed by severly limited vision out the front caused me to realize it was Love Bug season!  The windshield was spatterred with carcasses of the little critters who fly joined together.  I must have driven into a cloud of them.

Leaving the residue on the vehicle for a month of baking in the hot Florida sun just wasn't an option.  The only answer was to head back to the condo and do a quick (more than an hour!) cleaning job of the front end of the vehicle.  Some were still crawling around on the front bumper as I began and those mashed ones covering the windshield had to be scrubbed several times.  The long and short is that Big Mama returned to the storage facility with a clean front end and the "old lady" was happy she was in pretty good shape with her travel preparations so that this unexpected diversion didn't cause too much heart burn!.