As it turns out we were only 32 miles from Bob’s sister, Kathy, who lives in Tennessee. It had been years and years since we’ve been to her home so we called her on Friday to let her know we were here and to make sure she was going to be home today.
We agreed that we would meet at one. As luck would have it her husband, Sonny, had just gone back to work the day before after being off for three and a half months due to a workplace injury. Sonny was out on the road so we missed seeing him by just one day.
It was wonderful seeing Kathy again as we figured it out it had to be six or seven years since we last saw her. Like a lot of families we see each at funerals and weddings. We spent a good amount of time bringing each other up to date on all the goings on in the Quinn family.
Kathy has one son who lives in the same town so he came over to see us. We hadn’t seen “Chopper” in ten years. He’s not the young, single, twenty something anymore but all grown up with a family of his own. We were sorry we didn’t get to see brother Steven or his sister Tootie but they don’t live in the area. Yep, Chopper and Tootie. I know Chopper’s real name is Clay because it's in his email address but for the life of me I can’t remember Tootie’s given name. I guess I’m not surprised I can probably name dozens of people who don’t remember MY real name because all they ever hear is the nickname.
The several hours we spent visiting went all too fast. I do believe we have a future RV’er in the family in Steven. He’s always wanted to travel and after talking with Uncle Bob he knows that he wants an RV now.
After hugs and handshakes and some picture taking we were on our way.
Kathy cuts all this lawn with an old fashioned SELF propelled push mower. Better you than me Kath!
We’re going to get on the road tomorrow. As luck would have it the weather system we’ve been waiting for and riding out never did materialize, we’ve had nice weather! Will we ever learn NOT to pay several days in advance? Actually, for the most part we seldom do that but the weatherman was soooo convincing that big storms were on the way that we were convinced that we should stay put for three days.
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