Homeward Bound

Simon and Garfunkel's "Homeward Bound" is one of John's and my favorite songs - especially today!  Then we crossed the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin, and I wondered if we knew what we were doing, really.

It's pouring down rain.  Huge rain drops hitting the windshield at about 100 miles an hour (and John never, ever goes over the speedlimit - ask his "Are we there yet?" kids.)  It's all my fault.  I filled the gas tank and washed the van before picking John up at the hospital.  It'll probably rain all the way to Texas now.  Ah well, at least we don't have the glare of sunlight blinding us...

We drove until 9 pm Central time (YEA!  Primetime is from 7 pm to 10 pm!  No more having to stay up until 11 o'clock to watch favorite shows!) and decided to get a room in Birmingham, Alabama.   I hopped on the laptop, logged onto Hotels.com, booked a room at our favorite Country Inn and Suites, and put the new address in Lil' Miss GPS.  Slicker 'n snail snot (that's an old East Texas expression - too dry for snails in West Texas...) we were checking in.

As soon as we got to the room John said delightedly, "This 'll work!"  He usually has to move furniture and search for a place to plug in his CPAP.  Sometimes he has to use our own extension cord and/or that adapter thingamajig for changing the 3-prong plug to a 2-prong.  He saw pretty quickly that here there was a 3-prong outlet in the base of the lamp on the bedside table.

He also loves his music at bedtime.  Check out their alarm clock:

They had a couple dozen Southern Maid donuts at the desk which John availed himself of.  Those and a glass of tea I thought for sure would keep him up until all hours, but not John.   He was asleep almost the minute his head hit the pillow.

This morning the complimentary breakfast was excellent (well, the hot water for a cup of tea could have been hotter...) and they even had POG!  (Hawaiian Passion Fruit, Orange, and Guava juice.)

Our room was so nice I had trouble getting John on the road.  But the urge to get home prevailed, and we're "on the road again" as Willie Nelson would say.  It's supposed to be sunny all day - but the entire state of Texas is predicted to get rained on tomorrow.  Hmmm.  I think I will simply have to sit on the front porch in my rocking chair with a hot cup of tea lovin' on our dogs and cats and just feasting my eyes on our horses, forest, and land! They ain't no place like home!