The Other Story

Yesterday I mentioned there was another story to tell about the road we are on today. We are traveling I10 towards Jacksonville, FL.

We were driving the freight liner to Mississippi in October 2007 to visit Kris's mom . She had breast cancer. Every two hours we would take turns driving. We were on our last leg back to the RV when it was my turn to drive. We were about and hour from the RV and I had just passed a car and was still in the left lane when all of a sudden we heard a huge bang! The truck jerked across the right lane took me up the embankment and we were heading for the trees. I knew if I try to jerk the truck back down the embankment we would have turned over. I holler, "KRIS, what do I do". There were silence! Then I saw a hand reach across and grabbed the steering wheel and in a ever so calm voice I heard the words, "take your foot off the break". I took by foot off the brake and I noticed the wheels starting to grab. We coasted back down to the shoulder of the road and we came to a stop. I asked him how he stayed so calm and I really did appreciate the help. He said he was screaming. I knew than there were angels on that steering wheel and talking to me. The right tire blew out and left us with $8,000 dollars in damage to the nose of the truck and a paint job and lots of other stuff. The blessing is we were both fine and we were able to drive the truck home after the tire was replaced. I have thanked Kris many times for retiring from the military. The USAA insurance did not give us any hassle and all we had to pay was the deductible.

Little Surprises

When you are an Rv'er and travel as much as we do, it would be a good idea to keep your mind opened to except little surprises when they come your way.

Upon arriving at our stop last night we walked into the rv to let the slides out and settle in. However, settling in took a little bit more of an effort. We found from the kitchen to the bath area trashed. Our knife block and all our kitchen knifes were on the floor. The oven door was laying opened and all the frying pans we keep in the oven was on the floor. The door over the sink in the bath area was opened and a full bottle of peroxide was on the floor empty. The cap busted when it hit the floor. A finger nail polish bottle was broken into several little pieces and what a smell!
Several of the contents in the cabinet was on the floor.
The nine years we have been traveling we never had any of these things to fall. We have had minor incidents,but, nothing like this. Of course it was an easy clean up and we are very grateful that is all the surprises we had on the trip yesterday.

Change of Plans

Normally we will know at least a few days in advance where Kris's next job will be. Of course, this is one of those times the plans changed on us. The plans were to go to Montgomery, Al., but ate the last minute the home office found out there wasn't any funding for the project. They decided than to send us to Melbourne, Fl. We were to call the home office this morning and get a conformation on the funding of that project. We hooked up last night and had only a few things to do this morning before we hit the road. However, it was about 10:30 this morning before we found out that their was no funding for the project there either. We do like to be on the road rather early so we can stop around 4pm for the night. This way we can rest and get out and stretch our legs before digging in to fix dinner. We area on our way to Jacksonville, Fl. We have been there several times before and it is a nice place. This change of plans does not bother us. The most important thing is, we are together and we will be off the road before dark. When we know where we are going we always plan where we will stay the night. We pick out a few RV parks within an hour from each one depending on the time when we decide to stop.

Stuck in the Middle

Have you ever felt like you are stuck in a moment and can't seem to move forward? When we arrived in Meridian on January 4th it was only for a week. However, the job Kris was here for went from bad to worse and back again. The new equipment did not come in as scheduled, this put us here another week. After testing some equipment a 30 watt wire wound line blew from the panel Kris was working on and missed Kris's face by inches. Thankfully he is fine, but, it caused more problems and added another week to our stay.

We were suppose to leave for Montgomery, Al. this Friday,however, it will not happen now. The new system is to be in place tomorrow but, one of the local techs had a death in the family and is not able be around Friday to make sure the new system is behaving properly. Therefore, Kris will have to stick around for another couple of days. I am not excited about Alabama. It really isn't I dislike Mississippi. Then what is the reason we want to leave so badly? I really don't know, other than, I really don't like Mississippi. This might be why we seem to be stuck here longer than we both care to be. I have been working for a while now on how to enjoy where I am at on the way to where I want to be. Sometimes it is harder than it seems. I guess you can say this about everyone's life. We all want to fast forward past the not so good times. However, the not so good times is usually where the memories lie when we reflect back on our past. The not so good times is where we learn and grow and where it molds us to be the person we want to become. I have to remind myself of this from time to time. We are here for a reason and we are sowing in to a harvest which is waiting patiently down the road for us.

Since we will be here another week we will spend the time replacing slid seals Kris had ordered. The weather should be quite lovely.

So all in all being here does have its benefits. We are together and this is what truly matters.

Rainy days and Mondays

We made it to Meridian, MS without any problems, Yaay! We did not run into any rain even tho there were threatening skies and foggy the whole trip. Kris was able to get the landing gear that broke on us before we left my mom's repaired before the rains came in.
Not only is Kris so lovable he is so handy to have around. I don't know anything that he cannot fix and fix RIGHT!

While we were eating breakfast this morning we thought it was raining. We soon noticed we were not seeing raindrops on the ground and realized it was birds on our slide. They seem to be enjoying the buffet of lady bugs and spiders that are caught in the seals. Our little Teton is feeling so unloved. It is so nasty from sitting under trees at my moms. Between my back surgery and Kris traveling with his job and now rain in the forecast for most of the week there has not been any time to wash it. We will probably hire someone to wash it since it is dark by the time Kris gets home and we have plans to visit his dad down in Wiggins this weekend. So I guess the birds will dine with us again tonight!

Driving through the Southern part of South Carolina and all of Georgia and Alabama,it was very sad to see how severe the drought still is in these parts. It will take years for them to get their water tables up and recover from all of this.