Our Adventures Continue...

On the 24th we traveled from Indianapolis to Chicago. Do you know how scary it is driving a 40' rig with a car attached through 'rush hour' in Chicago? Boy it really takes a big man to do that, oh, I forgot, I'm a little women. We made it to the Sams Club where we usually park. Son Mike came and we went to a fast foods rib place and had great ribs. Great talking to Mike, I got my hugs and I am content until I see him in 3 weeks. Of course I always lean on him to rebirth my computer once a year and yes, he did it one more time. My computer, he and I bought 5 years ago at Best Buy and it is a great machine but I download so much stuff that after a while it gets too bogged down with junk. Any way not to bore you, we will be heading toward home through non-rush hour traffic and maybe take 2 days to get to Mel's. I will be really happy to be home for a while.

We are in Knoxville because Bessie got sick in the Smokies and we had to be towed to the nearest Cummins dealer for repair. Come to find out it is the ENGINE. Yee gads!!!! They took out the oil filter and it was full of metal debris. A rebuilt engine is on order and it should be in today. If we are lucky we will be on the road by Monday. The poor little thing was sitting out behind the RV yesterday looking so forlorn, feels sick that it let us down. We are sort of feeling sick that it let us down also$$$$$$$$$$$, but what is is what is. So we are hole up at a Super 8 with wifi, king size bed, cable, pool, free continental breakfast and somebody makes the bed and cleans the room every day...I can handle that. Tony, however is not a happy camper, they promise free wifi but they do not deliver that to your room, you have to go to the lobby. It seems the wifi system is down but they are working on it. So its no TIVO and its no wifi, he's a bear!!!!!!!!!! A new engine will have a warran...

Tony and I have some sorrow at leaving Americus, Georgia and Habitat for Humanity Internationals Global Village. We stayed so long they became our second family. They were happy to support us so that the RV Care-A-Vanner Program can survive. We worked at Habitat for 2 months plus and got to know lots of folks there and our great Care-a-Vanners.