Since I'm home long enough to see where I live I guess I'll begin my journey to PA.
Thursday March 22, 2007 We left for Oregon to check the cards at Multnomah Falls and other places.
Friday March 23, 2007 We got to visit with a couple of my sons and I got to spend some time with 8 of my grandchildren, Spent the night and on Saturday we had a late breakfast and a leisure time together. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we left for a benefit dinner and an auction for a gospel singing group.
On the way The pickup decided it was time it had some attention. The oil light came on. Pop stopped. There was oil all over under the pickup. A quick check showed the oil filter had come loose, therefore losing all the oil. Thanks to the inventions of cell phones we were able to get in contact with the right son at the right time. I got a ride to the dinner with Ben, and Pop called Scott to come take him to Wal Mart so he could get another oil pump. Pop arrived at the dinner by 8PM. Ate. We started for home at 9PM. driving through the night we arrived home at 5AM
Sunday March 25, 2007 We slept most of the day (I wonder why?)
Monday March 26, 2007 This is the day I was supposed to have to get ready to take off for Pennsylvania. I straightened the house and began to pack. Towards afternoon Pop got restless and wanted to leave yet that night.
Monday, March 26, 2007 At 8:30 PM we took off for PA. Around Mountain Home, ID we ran into a tumble weed storm. The wind was blowing at a terrific speed, and the tumble weeds were tumbling down the road. I've never seen anything like it. I'm not stretching it when I say they would come in bunches. Sometimes only 2 or 3 but there were times when the wind would blow hard and 100 or more at a time would dance across the road. Most of them were 1 to 2 feet high but there were some that were 4 or 5 foot high. At the last the wind changed and they came tumbling down the road straight at us. The tumble weed seems so free to go where the winds will carry it. At last I felt like I was "drifting along with the tumbling tumble weed"
On through the night we drove, stopping for a couple hours to sleep along the road, then on again, all through the day. We at last reached Kearney, Nebraska where we spent the night. Ahhh! sweet rest.
Wednesday' March 28, 2007. Drove all day and that night we reached Morton, Ill. Watching the news we learned that we were just ahead of all the tornados. There were 65 tornadoes that touched down, in a 24 hour period, from Texas up through the Dakotas passing through Kearney NE where we had been the night before.
Thursday, March 29, 2007 At Wheeling, West Va. we go up to Washington PA, then cut down to Morgantown, West Va Spent the night at Morgantown.
Friday March 30, 2007 We arrive in Maryland. Since it is close the PA line we visit our Amish cousins in PA Leave cards in the little Amish store and back to MD again. We stop at Penn alps. Check the cards and on to Hagerstown, MD where we get our motor home and back into PA to my daughters place. Arriving there at midnight. They didn't hear us come in so they didn't know we were there till the next morning.
If you're bored, think of how I must feel. But the trip didn't go to bad, I crocheted, and read, and ate, and looked at scenery and did book work.
I'm really pretty pleased with myself. What do you do when you travel? You eat and snack and eat and snack, and the more tired and bored you get the more you snack. Well this time I went to Wal Mart and bought salad things and little cans of chicken and tuna. I made a big salad before we left and divided it up in little zip lock baggies, put it a cooler. Bought snack crackers, fruit and nuts. I spent $29.00. They lasted till we got to Ill. We ran out of ranch dressing so we stopped at a dollar store and bought a bottle of dressing for a dollar. When it came time to eat we would open a can of meat, add it along with dressing to the salad and eat.
From the time we left home till we got to my daughters place we spent a total of $1.00 on food.
Since we finally made it to PA, I'll let you rest awhile, but I'll be back.
WE ARE TRUELY THANKFUL TO OUR GOD FOR SAFTY OVER THE MANY MILES WE TRAVEL. HE IS AN AWESOME GOD AND HIS CREATION IS BEYOND ALL IMAGINATION, AND I NEVER TIRE OF IT. THE TUMBLE WEEDS, THE WIND, ROCK FORMATIONS, PRARIES, THE DESERT, THE FOREST, MOUNTAINS, LAKES, THE HILLS, THE VALLEYS, THE WEATHER. IT'S ALL CREATED BY MY GOD, AND I LOVE IT AND PRAISE HIM FOR IT.
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