After our visit with nephew Mike and nieces Jeanne and Katey in Sherwood, AR, we made our way across the great Mississippi into Memphis TN and an over night stop in La Grange, TN. Our friend, Maxine Stoll, joined us for our visit to Red Bay and after a great deal of encouragement, has agreed to travel to Indiana with us. We are enjoying Maxine who is like family. She took care of Gary when I went into the hospital to deliver Terri and subsequently baby sat with the two of them until her husband, a career Navy Chief was transferred and she had to abandon our children to accompany her husband and family. We have remained long time friends and we consider her a member of our extended family.
Our friend Vi Jackson called us this week to report that her husband Richard (Dick) is in the hospital. Dick and Vi are friends from Canada and we were introduced to them by our mutual friends, the Haselmans. We have enjoyed many wonderful evenings with Vi and Dick, Bruce and Gwelda. We have many wonderful memories of Dick and Vi and we wish Dick a speedy recovery.
Our stay in Red Bay Alabama has thus far been uneventful. Our primary purpose for this stop at the factory where our RV was manufactured was to replace a booth in our dining area with a table and chairs and computer work station. That has been done but some additional miscellaneous projects are still incomplete so we will be here for the weekend. We will do some sight seeing out and about along the Natchez Trace. On Thursday we visited Elvis’ birthplace in Tupelo Mississippi. The weather has been unreasonably hot, in my opinion. I must apologize to Cousin Richard. I told him to “get over it when he worried about the high humidity that he expected to confront in Buffalo when we all meet up to visit his brother and the family’s roots in Warsaw . Cousin Richard was obviously more aware of the weather than I was.
There you have it for our second week on the road. I have been pleasantly surprised with what seems to me to be a very good quality of life as we travel the scenic byways. It seems to me that the American way of life has provided a pretty good lifestyle to these good country people.
Tomorrow I will post some pictures from the road.
