Expensive Day Thursday

Dear Ones (special note to Shawn, Kris & family) What a day you're in for. It must be an incredible experience to see all those sights.

Thursday's story :) the Dick & Joan on the road again saga...We left Al & Susans about 8:30 in the morning after saying goodby to these dear friends. We don't see them very often and we so enjoy being with them.

We thought there would be a dump station at a Rest Area along Highway 10 in the Panhandle of FL. (about 40 miles) We pulled in there, no dump station, but our truck was doing a dump of it's own. When we walked around the truck, it was dumping green anti-freeze on the ground. This trucker walked over after seeing Dick down on his hands and knees trying to see under the truck, and suggested we had a leakin the hose. He knew of a service station, but didn't know of a Ford Dealer.

Unfortunatly, Garman didn't list a Ford Dealer either. So we drove another 8 miles to Marianne FL, stopped at a Toyota dealer to ask for a Ford dealer. The dealer said yes he could help us in 2-4 hours and told us to park across the street behind a Wendy's restaurant. So he has the truck, the 3 of us are sitting in our lawn chairs on the cement parking lot waiting :) Daisy, of course, is growling and barking at everyone who goes by. Finally, they call to say it's not a hose (of course not), the radiator core went bad. Sooo, 4 hours later and $800 poorer, we started to pack up. But, oh no, the story doesn't end there...the Marianne Security Guard drives up in this car and said someone reported that a family was "living" in their camper in the parking lot. Once we told him the story, he had a good laugh over it.

The saga continues...but we're having a great time and are so glad we made the trip.