Whelan's Wheels (go round and round, round and round): Tuesday June 15

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Tuesday June 15

I will, seriously, do a "decent" post soon. In fact I have the photos uploaded for it, but I need Rick's help/input/descriptions of the photos to do them justice.

Trying to remember where we were when I did the last post (brain fart, brain cramp, brain freeze ... call it whatever you want, but I did just open a new tab and go to the blog to find out!!!) We were in paradise ~ aka Rippling Waters Church of God Campground in Romance (don't ya love it), WV - oh what a place OH WHAT A PLACE .. we left there on um .... let me check "the" book got it now , we left on the 10th .. and went to Springfield, Ohio ~ just a bit north and east of Dayton (where King Richard took himself on a field trip ... with my blessings, oh please King, go do something that interests you immensely and bores me to no end, I'd be delighted to stay here and sew and read and play with Sir Arlo ... and so off he went on said field trip - hence I need his input, descriptions of previously mentioned uploaded photos!

We left Springfield on the 13th (Sunday I believe) and headed west, at a quicker than usual, for us, pace as I am flying out of Kansas City on the 23rd to attend the memorial service for my dear "Auntie Gert" who passed away last Friday night.

We were in Terre Haute, Indiana for two nights and arrived here in Granite City, IL (just a whisker east of St. Louis (Louie) at the Elks Lodge that we stayed at last fall on our southern journey. We will be here for two or three nights then on to Columbia, MO for a night or two before I get us settled into the KC area prior to me flying out.

So seriously, what is with this "midwest" weather? We've had so many days with rain (hate to "beat a dead horse" with this, but it's been more than three weeks) at some point. The last couple days have included tornado warnings - seriously, tornado warnings. I have issues with weather extremes - as in lightening sends me under cover, and preferably under the bed, but in our case under the bed is a 330 Cat engine so there isn't much room for an ever expanding Tracey there do you think!

We stopped for fuel today and the skies just flipping opened - lightening I swear not even 1/32 of a mile away ~ I didn't "freak" at that point - what the heck I had six new beautiful tires under Sir and I - and was hoping King Richard would just take his sweet time coming out of the "store" where you hand over your credit card and "rewards" (yeah!!) card ... slowly Rick, slowly .... no hurry to get out to this fuel pump!

Yeah it all worked out. We got to the Lodge, the weather "held off" for us to connect the electric and water, then the damned tornado warnings for the county we are in - another day of tornado warnings .... why does my stomach hurt, why am I so "uptight" .... I love this life we are living, but tornado warnings???? Ummmmm not so much.

Okay, hopefully I can sit King Richard down at some point tomorrow (we are on central time now ...) and have him work with me (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) on the pending post!

G'night all ....... oh yes,

GO CELTICS GO CELTICS GO CELTICS GO CELTICS

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Eric said...: Testing testing; June 18, 2010 at 9:35 AM

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This is our story ~ and we're sticking to it.

Our attempt at a blog - quite scary isn't it?

We left MA in early October, 2007 after I (Tracey) retired September 5 as an executive assistant for a software developer and Rick retired from his job on October 1. We passed papers on our house September 28th and off we went. We traveled down the east coast to the Florida Keys ~ where we planned to spend three nights but 17 nights later had to leave our site because someone had reserved it a year prior! We then stayed in northern FL for another month and headed off to meet our Marine returning to the San Diego area after his second tour "over there". We spent several wonderful weeks realizing why grandparents get tired easily! After the San Diego area we headed to the "low desert" (certainly a new phrase for us) of CA and into western AZ .. and decided it was finally time to start the blog we'd talked about since August or so!!

So many wonderful things we saw along the way. And the people, oh the people. I have said so many times to Rick the best part of this journey has been the people. So, so many people with so many interesting stories. Think about it - think about the stories YOU have and multiply that by the many many people we must have met along the way ~ particularly a social person like Rick .. we met a rattlesnake milker in Sweetwater, TX, we met the camp hosts in the Keys who summer back in NH ~ talk about the best of both worlds! We met the female police Sgt. at the Sweetwater Elks whose son was also in Iraq at the same base as my son. We met people in Slidell, LA who survived Katrina and had a great attitude and a smile on their faces and were proud to share their local cuisine with us. We saw the Blue Angels, purely by chance, in El Centro, CA. Or the "campground" where within an hour of arriving our house had been hit three times by golf balls! Or the Elks lodge in Indio ~ the sweetest, bike riding, bartender ~ I just wanted to pack her up and bring her along on our adventure. Not to mention the aerial tram while we were there, the warplane museum for Rick who does NOT do aerial trams! The Salton Sea ~ WOW just WOW. We stayed in the lovely little town of Wilcox, AZ - there was just something about that town. How about Pensacola, FL where the Elks Lodge on the beach is now built high, very high, off the ground! Or what about Huntington Beach State Park in Murrels Inlet, SC - talk about beautiful. What a great place that was to spend our first Thanksgiving on the road with good friends - that was something to be thankful for, for sure. Our first Christmas and New Years in the Keys!! WOW. The love and support of a dear friend in FL while Rick had to fly back to Boston and we dealt with all that entailed with unexpected follow ups back in FL .. how fortunate were we through all of that. Not to mention having the new trailer outfitted in Myrtle Beach and staying at what a week or two a year is the Broken Spoke? Or the kind and soft spoken LA Police Detective who is on the gang unit? So many people, so many stories. And there is so much ahead. The people .. did I mention how wonderful the people have been - all different walks of life .. so many personalities, so many stories! I have said many times ~ I need to pinch myself every morning to be certain it REALLY is happening to US! We are so grateful.

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