Sunday, August 31, 2008

Well, we left NH on Thursday morning at 8:30 and drove till 5:30 that night and ended up in Woodville, PA. We drove thru Massachusetts, Conneticut, a little bit of New York and ended up in Pennsylvania. We drove by an exit for Lords Valley, PA. Wouldn't that be a neat place to call home? We spent most of the day with good weather and the last couple hours in a light to moderate rain. We spent the night in a park that had 50 amp service and real small sites, at least width wise. But since we were only staying one night, we did not open any slides in the living area. A quick dinner and early bedtime. We got up early and it was still drizzling out and it was foggy. As we were getting on the road, Rick noticed a problem with the running lights on the camper. We stopped about 40-50 miles later at a truck stop for breakfast and realized that we had no running lights on the back of the camper at all. The ones on the front and sides were very dim. And of course, it is still raining. At least we had brake lights and turn singles, but no running lights. At least daylight was upon us, even if it was still gloomy. So we called Carriage and the guy said that it sounded light a ground problem. Rick thought so too. We were told to check the king box connections. Well, we couldn't do that while on the road, but at least it was noted that we were having a problem and could take it in for repairs at any RV dealership. We got into Oh and close to home about noon and got our car from our daughter. We then took the camper to the shopping center in Vermilion to go see Rick's mom. She was supprised and pleased to see us. We stayed a little bit and had to go to get to our home park before dark because of the running light situation. Sat We slept in and kind of recouped from the trip. Rick did work on the running lights and he thinks he solved the problem. Won't know till we get back on the road and he hits a bump. Oh well. We went to the golf course to hit a bucket of balls. We have not played golf in a month's time. Boy was I ever rusty! Sunday we got up and got ready for church. We stopped to pick up Rick's dad and he said he wasn't going because he had been up all night with his mom. So we talked him into going and he did. It was a lovely service and it felt really good to be back home in our church. We really love the people there. We went back to Dad's house and Rick, his brother John and John's son John went to play golf. I stayed with Mom and Dad. That is really hard taking care of a terminally ill person. My hats off to all the hospice nurses that do this on a daily basis. Rick's mom is getting more confused and a lot of what she is saying does not make sense. She thinks everyone is being mean to her and really she is the one that yells at everyone and no one can do anything right. We know this is the sickness talking, but it gets a little bit hard to take on a regular basis. So after dinner, we came back home. Oh, by the way, Rick did beat his brother and nephew at golf. But he is sore tonight. I talked to my brother today and I am going to go out to visit my Mom with him in about a week and a half. That will be nice. More to come later.

1 comment:

Mrs. Monty said...

Good to hear you all are back in OH and had safe travels. We will have you all in our prayers. Take care.