Wednesday, November 5, 2014
We are home in West Lafayette! We arrived mid afternoon on Monday and
started unpacking the trailer.
We spent Saturday with Molly, Nick, Will, Clara
and Fritz in Johnson City, TN. The kids and Nick had built a
really tall snow man, but it’s head fell off before I got a chance to
photograph it. Although there was enough
snow to build a snowman, there wasn’t any on the roads, so traveling around
wasn’t a problem.
The kids were delighted to see Obi and we thank
Molly and Nick for letting us bring him along.
Will was wise enough to ask how old Obi was and upon learning that he’s
77 in human years, all the kids were especially gentle with him. They took turns reading him to sleep!
Obi seemed to enjoy it and stayed quietly in
his bed, occasionally looking in the direction of the reader.
Molly made us a delicious butternut squash soup
for lunch. We ordered pizza and took it
out to the trailer for dinner, as the kids wanted to see the RV. Now they want one! Sorry, Molly and Nick!
On Sunday, we got up and headed for home. The snow was all gone and it was a bright
sunny day. We have been blessed with
mostly gorgeous weather and scenery.
We drove through Cumberland Gap National Park
on our way. These were a few of the deer
that were near the visitors center.
The Cumberland Gap led pioneers to Kentucky and
other lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
Daniel Boone blazed this and other trails through the mountains and
established several communities.
I look at the landscape and am amazed at the
people who came through here. We forget
that, for the most part, they were traveling by foot. Walking.
Hundreds of miles. Daniel Boone
was born in Pennsylvania, moved to North Carolina with his parents, and lived
there, in Kentucky, West Virginia and Missouri, traveling mostly on foot. No GPS, no maps, only animal trails to
follow. And existing with whatever you
could carry on your back or horse if you were lucky enough to have one.
I much prefer our trailer!
Deb
