Daily Archives: March 11, 2011
Goodbye to New Friends and Old . . .
Today was hopefully our last early morning for a while. . . a long while, I hope. I got up about 7:15 and started coffee while Jan was in the shower.
About 8 we walked over to the Vendor Building to have one last donut (or maybe two) and say our goodbyes to new friends and old.
By 9 most people had headed out, but some hardy souls stayed to help us put away the tables and chairs, and then sweep out the Vendor Building.
By about 10 we finished up and went back to the coach to get ready to move back over to the stables where we were the week before the rally started. Since we were just moving a couple of blocks we didn’t need to pack like we were hitting the road.
We did see this nice hot air balloon floating off in the distance. Really colorful.
Around 11 we pulled out of our site and across the road to the parking area. There were still two coaches parked in the area we planned on moving to, so we started up the generator to run the AC’s to keep the coach cool, since it was in the mid 80’s and getting a little toasty.
Around 11:30 Nick and I took a golf cart tour around the fairgrounds to check for any stragglers. Everyone was supposed to be out by noon, but there’s always a few who wait until the very last minute to leave.
A few minutes after noon the last coach left our area so we headed over that way, stopping off to dump our waste tanks on the way. A few minutes later we were parked back in our old spot and getting set up. Then within the next hour, Tom and Barb, and Nick and Terry joined us here.
Finally it was time for the next item on the agaenda . . . a nap. It’s been so long I’ve almost forgotten what a nap feels like.
It felt gooood!
About 2:30 I called in our prescriptions to Sam’s Club to be picked up tomorrow, and then al ittle before 3 Nick called to say they would be ready to go to ‘lupper’ as soon as Terry finished up some Gypsy Rally paperwork.
And in a little while, the six of us headed over to Texas Roadhouse for an end-of-rally steak dinner. Jan mentioned that since we were eating so early we would be hungry enough by 8 to go to DQ.
And we were . . . and it was gooood! too.
More tomorrow . . .
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Thought for the Day:
"From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide." — Abraham Lincoln.
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