Oct 14, 2011
My goodness its been a long time since I last blogged.
Thought I should let you all know that thanks to karma, St. Christopher patron saint of travelers, daily prayers to my patron saint and 2 gps devices I am happy to report I have not gotten lost.....Thank You, Thank You, Please your standing ovation is too much~~~~Your applause was plenty
after some home time, that allowed us to work on our new home, well its not a home yet, now it is just a house, barely.
everybody giving advice on how to put in new floors, and insulate and move rooms around etc...
But our plan is within a year we can move in. We also put the truck in the shop, again for the airconditioner. This is the 3rd time in a year and a half that its been it. Thankfully its all been warrenty work. This last time it cost us $28.00 because they changed a couple of filters. You will be glad to know the air conditioner worked for about 36 hours, until we got to kansas. Of course. Looks like i cant spread my karma to cover not getting lost and having air conditioning.
When we get to kansas city we needed to take some time off because Will hurt his back. Slipped a disc (*diagnoised by dr leslie) when we delivered at the swift yard I told the lady at the window that I needed to take Will to an er or urgent care, which one is closest. Um I dont know, he cant wait and see his doctor in the morning? we dont live here, thats why I asked where the er is... oh, and she giggles a little. Um theres the phone book over there I dont know what its called. Dont you live here? Yea but I never had to go to the er. (ive never been to the oregon state mental hospital , but i can tell you where it is lady) So after looking up the hospital and putting in the address in the gps. We are only about 5 miles away.
Getting will in and out of the semi was slow going. He couldnt lift his leg very high so getting in was harder than getting out, easier for him to step down. Er asked when it hurt, when it feels ok, he said it hurts when i sit or stand, the only time it doesnt hurt is when Im laying on my back. so they said sit here.
Er gave him some flexeril shot, (what a baby)and they gave me directions to a walgreens and a couple of hotels. Walgreens was easy, The hotels were all full some big event Lance Armstrong Live Strong Arena hoo~haa going on. We had to make do at and expensive hotel for the weekend because that was all that was available. Just friday, saturday and sunday, then will should be feeling better and can sit and drive.
Monday rolls around and will isnt any better, if we are going to stay another couple of days we need to move to a cheaper hotel. So we pack up and leave for a comfort inn or quality inn, our usually hang outs over the road. After 2 days there and will isnt any better i ask the desk clerk if there is an urgent care near by. She said yes, just about 4 blocks. So i get him in the truck, no he didnt want to use a taxi because he thought that would hurt more trying to stand up out of a low car than climb down from the semi?? so we get to this little urgent care, of course the parking lot isnt set up for semi parking, but i manage to crowd my way into a spot, help will out of the truck shuffle across the parking lot, wait in line just to hear, this isnt an urgent care until 5pm. Right now its a doctors office do you have an appointment? I said are you kidding me the sign out front that is lit up says urgent care. Yes mam but not till after 5pm. Ok she told be they did have a real urgent care about 25 miles away in Shawnee. Reverse the whole show, shuffle back to the truck steady will was he climbs into the truck, and off we go. Parking is worse in Shawnee, i trimmed 3 trees in the parking lot at no cost to them. I get in there and it is so small I ask if they do xrays here, she said no they would send us to a place down the street. Then they would be read within 6 hours and......never mind. All that wore Will out so we went back to the hotel. Thursday I conviced him we should just go back to the er. They took xrays this time, said nothing was broke. And gave him some pain meds, more flexeril and steriods. With in 24 hours he was beginning to feel better.
look at him go....
But not good enough, so friday morning i went down to pay for friday, saturday and sunday and she tells me they are booked for the weekend. WTH. What do you guys do around here on the weekends? She found another comfort inn a couple of towns over and got us in there. They were just having a hot rod car show and that wasnt very popular we were lucky. All in all we spend 10 days in kansas city and the surounding towns.
I did get a lot of knitting done. Trying to finish a sweater for my mom for Christmas. Hope i dont have to make it a mothers day gift insteed.
After wills back started feeling well enough to sit and drive he had to stop the pain pills and the flexeril. So the first 2 days I drove and he went into rehab in the sleeper. I think the steroids is what really worked. After Kansas City we headed for Flordia........oh my gosh it was so hot and humid there.
pretty colorful duck
It was so hot ~~how hot was it?~~ my little gold hoop earrings turned bronze or pewter color. Ok walmart gold, but still I guess it must be some chemical reaction involving an oven, swearing, sweat and maybe some tears.
From Florida we headed to Dover Delaware. ~The first State. At last some cooler weather, thats where we will spend our 34 off too. Its 82 Dover is having a heat wave, they are loving it. %$#&*^
Chesapeake Bay
at least it fall in some places
the hotel in Dover was a comfort inn. I beg each and every one of you not to stay here. They were nice and let us check in at 7am, normally check in is 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Our refrigerator in the truck died
We drive back to the huge walmart ,at the other end of town and its closed. Not open yet, grand opening is oct 26. so we end up at the little walmart that does have a refridge, but no groceries. So have to shop at the safeway. Anyway done and now back to the hotel.
OH be still my heart!!!
The room is very musty smelling. And the window is painted shut so we leave the door open for some fresh air. I grab the laundry bag from the truck and head down to the laundry room. The desk clerk told me to come see her and she would give me a laundry room key, it is separate from our room key card. So I did that and she points the way. The door is open when I get there, and there is only one washer and one dryer. Ugh! I have two loads, oh well get one load started, shut the door and head back to the room. When I went back to change the laundry, my key card wouldn't work. I went in and told the desk clerk and she looked at me funny and said who shut the door? I said I did, isnt that why you gave me a key? Oh ok she got housekeeping to come over with me and see if she could get it open, no luck, then someone else tried, again, no luck. They both left and I waited thinking they were going to solve this problem. But about 10 minutes later I see the housekeeper coming out of one of the rooms. So I go back to the desk clerk and she said, its still not open? Nope. She said she would call someone and get them to open it from the inside. So I go back and wait. And wait. AND WAIT. About 15- 20 minutes later I went back to the desk clerk just looked at her and she said she is one her way she was on the road shell be right back? I said really, cause I have more to do today than just hang out waiting for the laundry room to be opened. In about 20 minutes someone opens the door from the inside. I change the laundry and grab a big upright over stuffed chair and drag it and block the door open with it. I was so mad when I got back to the room my face was all red I was sweating and swearing. I sit on the edge of the bed and look down and see a black sock and was mad that a sock fell out of the laundry bag, then I remembered I didnt bring the laundry in the room. That sock was left here. Oh and I guess the toe nail clippings belong to the owner of the sock. &*^%# *(&$% then I started looking around and found an atm receipt on the tv dated oct 2. so guess that was the last day the room was cleaned, or sorta cleaned. I did check for bed bugs and they didn't have any, you can check on line before you stay http://bedbugregistry.com/
and of course always check when you get there. I did complain, and got the room charges reversed so that wasn't so bad then.
After Delaware it was off too Arizona, where our good luck held out and I had a blow out.
I was thankfull the next rest stop was open becasue many of Arizona's rest stops are closed budget cuts i guess. so at least I wasn't sitting on the side of the road for 3 hours.
a camel in Quartzite, AZ
Well guess this is long enough.
Love and miss you all
