Arrival in Texas

Well, we've arrived in Texas a bit earlier than we had planned. With Gustav headed in through the Gulf Coast, and watching it potentially heading through the area we were having to travel through, we left a day earlier than we had planned so that we could be ahead of it's arrival in the inland area. We arrived in Plano this afternoon around 6:30 PM. Since we knew of the Lewisville Lake Park just on the other side of Plano, we decided to take a chance on a site being available for us to grab a couple of nights before our suite is available at Extended Stay. There were two sites left. They were both for shorter units like Geovanii so be grabbed one for two days, er, nights! I felt like I was being rather extravagant to spend for TWO nights when we may not need the second, but Hey, what's another $8 when I'm spending on Sharon!! LOL! Turns out, we're in the exact same site we stayed in when we came through here last April after Sharon's appointment for her checkup. In fact, there's another View parked two sites down that was in that same site then, too! I'm not sure that the guy doesn't pretty well live here. I met him at the RV dealer when I picked up Geovanii last October and he said that he fulltimed in his.

Sharon did pretty well on the trip down. She laid down on one of the beds for a while each day and that helped the pressures on the part she sits on - oops, I mean her bad hip!

We had a bit of family sadness as we were leaving. Friday, James was supposed to fly back to Miami after being in Nashville all week for a conference. He called early Friday AM and said that Carol and Abigail were on the way up and he was canceling his flight home. Carol's dad had been admitted to the hospital with a collapsed lung. He has been fighting lung cancer for a couple of years now. They left Saturday morning for Jackson, TN around 6:30 AM to be there as soon as Carol could get into the ICU where he was. We left around noon time Saturday and passed through Jackson mid-afternoon. I called and talked to James and Bill was heavily sedated, but Carol and Abby had been able to visit with him for a while after they arrived. I had a call later in the evening after we had stopped for the night in Binkley, Arkansas that Bill (Norment) had passed away just a few minutes before. We feel badly that we couldn't turn around and be with them, but Sharon's schedule with the Dr and operation just doesn't allow it. We ask your prayers for James, Carol, Abigal, and Sue, Carol's mother as they experience the depth of grief that you face at such times.

All for now! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers!

Joe