On the road again, just can't wait to get on the road again.....

We left Hopkinsivlle Monday morning after spending 15 days with Kai and Chris and their three girls, Olivia - age 4, Anna - age 2, and Mary age 1.

Needless to say, the girls kept us busy. Lots of hours spent reading books, pretending that we were dragons, going to McDonalds (and Chuck-E-Cheese).

When we arrived in Kentucky we were thrilled to find that Chris White and Bea Sunderland-White were there too. Bea and Chris had recently competed a work assignment in North Carolina and had accepted a new assignment in Florida. Hopkinsville is not exactly located on the route from North Carolina to Florida, but Bea and Kai hadn't seen each other for a long while so Bea talked (her) Chris into detouring to Kentucky. We were fortunate to arrive while Bea and Chris were in town. We hadn't seen them for almost a year.

While in Hopkinsville, Bill helped Chris demolish and rebuild a concrete block retaining wall that runs along one side of the McQueen's driveway. The old wall was failing and tipping over into the driveway. The project went well, we saved the McQueens a fair amount of money, and it kept Bill out of trouble for quite a few days.

We didn't keep our trailer at Kai and Chris' house. A couple of friends of theirs, Rocky and Brenda Waymon, were kind enough to let us park our trailer at their rural 7 acre property. We were about 10 miles out of town and we really enjoyed our nightly peace and quiet at the Waymons.

Originally, when we left Hopkinsville we intended to head to Memphis and then Arkansas, Oklahoma, etc. But, since Demi hasn't ever visited the Gulf of Mexico, we changed our minds and decided to head straight south to Mobile, Alabama, then head west along the gulf coast line of Mississippi and Louisiana before angling northwest across Texax towards Albuquerque.
Tonight we're staying in a very nice city park in Greenville, Alabama. Not much to report about the drive down here. Lots of interstate highway and pretty views of rolling hills and hardwood forests. We ate lunch today at a "Waffle House", a fast-food institution in the south. We walked in with some trepidation but left pleasantly surprised. Pretty decent food, lots of it, and very reasonable prices.

Pictures from our time in Hopkinsville will follow later