We have been busy since our last post, we have travelled from Albuquerque, NM to St Augustine, FL and are now in Summerdale, AL. This is the most traveling we have done at one time since we hit the road in February 2007. I do not want to do it again. We decided to wander back to AL for Jody's residency graduation in June. Well, due to one reason or another we changed routes 4 times. On 5/17 we left Albuquerque & traveled to Carlsbad, NM. On 5/18 we went to Ft Stockton, TX & stopped in Pecos, TX at the West of the Pecos Museum. Barny Riggs had a bad day on 10/3/1896 as the shot & killed two guys in the bar where Judy is standing. Guess the others guys had a worse day. We then learned that Judy's sister Margaret had died. Although we knew this was coming Judy was still quite upset so we decided to head straight back. On 5/19 we were in Luling, TX and had a tire problem that we had repaired. On 5/20 we were in Duson, LA and spent 3 hours and 50 minutes when the LA bubba's closed I12 with no detour directions. It was everyone for themselves and after all that time we advanced 9 miles! On 5/21 we arrived in Summerdale, AL at the Escapee Rainbow Plantation and set up home. We are tired. Jody came over 5/22 and the three of us went to St Augustine. Bruce stayed home to work and watch their pooches. There was a short sibling memorial for Margaret at the grave site on Sunday 5/23 with Jim, Clayton & Judy plus their families. Mark, Clayton's son, came down from Atlanta and Jody was with us. Margaret is now at peace with Dick and Greg, I think that's where she wanted to be. We all then had dinner together with Trisha. Kim wasn't able to make it but we did go to see Kim & Tom before we returned to Summerdale today 5/24.
After we returned home Judy & Jody spent some time at the Gulf beach and the CGs pool. We plan on being at this site for 3 weeks, here's some pictures of the Escapee Plantation campsite. We like it here, it's dark at night, no traffic to speak of, everything is green, we have our own bed, lots of birds for Patches, not crowded and it's peaceful.
