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Make New Friends...

10/30/2015

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...But keep the old. One is silver and the other gold. Very wise words. We have met lots of great and interesting people on this trip. Some would likely become good friends if circumstances permitted. But old friendships are amazing. Last night we drove about thirty minutes for dinner with such a friend. Joyce and Jim were our accomplices for lots of adventures in our early marriage. We discovered disreputable restaurants and bars together and made a weekend trip to Chicago on $100 per couple. We kept in contact and exchanged visits when they moved to Des Moines and even the Virgin Islands. But eventually growing children and job demands made even that infrequent. We have only seen them once in probably twenty years. Since that time four years ago,  Jim was taken by Alzheimer's. When we circled the Southeast last spring, we planned a visit with Joyce but a succession of late ice storms changed our route. So we were determined this trip.

When you don't see someone for a long time, you always wonder if you have much in common any more--will you find enough to talk about? We were there for three hours and there wasn't a moment of silence. We didn't even get out of the entry way before we were going full bore, continued on her beautiful deck, through a scrumptious supper of salad and sweet potato and Andouille sausage, around a wonderful caramel apple pie, and hardly taking a breath for coffee. On the way back to the campground, I thought of several things I wanted to ask her about and forgot to mention. A great evening.

We will head homeward today, aiming for north of St. Louis for tonight, and the rest of the way tomorrow. Then the fun challenge of emptying and winterizing the trailer. Until next time.


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