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Well, another night with WiFi running in the campground! We actually made it all the way into Hot Springs, AR tonight! Went to the Crater of Diamonds State Park late this AM and piddled around with finding our fortune among the dirt and rocks of the diamond crater! What and interesting place. This was a volcano eruption sometime in the early formation of the earth and it brought up these chunks of diamonds with it. Would like to come back sometime and be serious about the search. The odds are NOT in your favor but are somewhat better than a Blackjack table at your local casino!! [:D] It will be fun to have a go at it anyway! There were some pretty serious miners out there. Story has it that a local guy spent some time there almost every day and paid for his two kids college with what he had found! Even today, there was a one caret chunk found about the time we arrived!
We cached our way across US 27 and US 70 into Hot Springs just in time to run up to the top of the little hill and go up in the observation tower. I thought it must be a hundred feet tall or so but when we got in the elevator, the recorded message told us it was 210 feet high! What a view across the area! Worth the trip but we didn't stay long! We decided to leave pretty quickly and move on down the road. Made it at least five miles out of town!! Wow! We're running hard now!
Sharon's done really well. She's stretching the distance and time she can "run" around on her crutches! The road seems to be getting easier for her too, so we may pick up the pace a little BUT probably NOT! It's fun just poking along and smelling the roses along the way! Travel the way it should be - on the backroads to see what this country is really like!
We'll be home sometime! James, Carol and Abby will be coming in Thanksgiving Day, so we have a target date! Gotta be home by that Wednesday!! [:D]
Cheers!
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Welcome home. It must feel great. What a voyage. We are so glad that made it Sharon. Will be looking forward to more of Joe's closing comments. I know they will be great. We are back in Florida and after 15 days back in Illinois this beautiful Florida sunshine sure feels wonderful. Since last we communicated we have learned that we have TWO more great grand children on the way. One in December (unknown) and one in March a known GIRL. Wow. May have to venture back during the heavy frost time for these events. We returned home last Wednesday to find that in our absents the refrigerator gave up the ghost after only 12 years. The greater shock was in finding one at any price that could be delivered in less than a week. Never realized that southerns were this slow. Anyway it was delivered this morning and is now in it's virgin cool down period. Escorting the delivery boys out I looked up and one of the recoil springs on the garage door broke. Oh the joys of home ownership. O'well, no body ever said life was simple.
Sharon it is great to have you back home in such excellent shape. Bill
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