Travel Day, Heading Home

Nancy’s son Mike is in town for the week. This afternoon, the 3 of us went to the horse races at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights (IL). It was a beautiful day to be outside too. Mike and I had fun trring to pick winners. Nancy used the “neat name” method. She won a race…

We are half way to Lost Island Resort (Ruthven, IA).  We’re overnighting at Walmart in Independence, IA off of US-20.  Nice folks. Heading out early to get to Lost Island by noon.  Blog at ya later. Jim

Nancy is in China.  Her second trip abroad in a month – both for work.  Shanghai is 13 hours ahead of us.  Pretty easy to remember.  Our AM is her PM +1 hour.  So 9 PM at home now is 10 AM in Shanghai. Puppies and I miss her but we’ll live.  She’ll be home…

While Nancy was at Women’s Bible Study tonight, Lisa and I volunteered to help with Christmas decorations at Church. The two of us assembled about 5 trees. One of them was so tall, we couldn’t put the top 3 foot section on it. Must have been over 12 feet high. We are missing a few…

We made it.  We’re in Charleston, SC with the trailer and the puppies.  We took our time to travel the 1,100 miles – better part of 3 days.  We got great fuel mileage – about 11.4 overall.  Diesel was plentiful.  Pricing was a bit sporadic.  We paid $2.999/gal the day before we left, then $3.209,…