Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Only one more day......
Only one more day before we take off for the Big Easy. If we could only finish up with work and tasks, we would feel really ready to go! Terri is only working tomorrow morning so she can shop, stock and pack the Airstream tomorrow at our house where Alice the Airstream will be parked at the end of our driveway overnight. She's all clean and shiny and ready to be filled with clothes and food and worldly belongings and Sam and us for the 2500+mile trip to New Orleans. We'll leave Thursday at noon after Terri finishes with her morning patients and stop the first night at the Sutherlin drive-in movie/RV park where we will meet up with Julius and Patricia. We travel so well together and this trip, they have Lucy, their new Labradoodle. She and Sam love each other, and we have a dog sitter waiting in New Orleans for those two girls when we are "doing our thing". Will write more soon about the planned activities. It is so wonderful that we are both still in good enough health and good enough spirits to take on a trip like this one. Mardi Gras has been on Terri's bucket list forever, though Hal's, not so much. Oh well, he's a good sport about the whole thing. We'll take lots of good pictures and do campground reviews for those who might travel similar trails in the future. Wish us luck! If we can get through the Siskiyous on I5 without mishap given the oncoming storm, we will be joyous.
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David's 80-year-old mother just returned from New Orleans. Here is her report:
ReplyDeleteI'm home again with half my heart, the other half left in New Orleans. My body, muscles have almost recovered from weeding, painting, and carrying drywall down stairs for 3 days, trying to help a New Orleans couple move into their home 7 years after Katrina. TV, news, photos just did not help me GET IT, so I went there to see with my own eyes and speak to the people who are still suffering and feel they have been forgotten (which most have been). Did see many parades go by our work site to celebrate MLK's birthday and joined a muti-racial, multi-ethnic celebration with amazing music by all African-Americans and again to watch the Inauguration, greeted by tears from many in the crowd (blacks, women, LGBT, immigrant folks). One night free, everyone was so tired and sore from labor that only 4 of us (me the oldest and 2 in their teens) went out on the town to the French Quarter, where I got some beads thrown down to me from the balconies.
Good for your mom, David! I hope I can be 80 like that.
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