Thread: Illinois Road Trip

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"....As much as we'd like to still be 19 in our minds, the ol' bod just doesn't always cooperate....................but that doesn't stop us from playing the game the best we can does it?....."

Just got thru reading Bob's road trip story and boy did it hit a cord. I just got back from 3 weeks in Illinois seeing Mom and got back Friday evening.

The important part first......some of you may know I drove back a couple months ago after Mom had a stroke. The reason I went back this time was far more happy. Mom felt she was ready to move back home. I wanted to be there for the first couple of weeks to make sure she would be able to live on her own. She is doing absolutely great and I have no concerns she (and her cat) will be fine.

As far as the trip. I took the Caddy powered El Camino back last time last, so this trip it was the 57 Plymouth's turn. The trip out was pretty uneventful, I broke the drive into 2 days and spent one night in motel.

The trip back was a bit different story. My wife and my anniversary was yesterday and I figured I'd leave in the late afternoon on Thursday. I like to drive at night and it would put me thru the bigger cities during non-rush hour times (and miss the Friday night drunks) and I would be back home sometime late Saturday morning.

The drive was pretty good, the old Plymouth did great but I did run into a heck of a rain storm between Iowa City and Des Moines. The problem was that by the time I would normally have started looking for a motel, I was just a few hours away from home. Yeah, I decided to go ahead and drive all the way thru......26 hours on the road and I pulled into my driveway at about 7PM Friday night. I was beat and just pulled the car into the shop and went into the house. I know in the old days I didn't hurt that bad or take as long to recover.

To add insult to injury when I got up the next morning and wandered out to the Arizona room I found out my yard looked like a game preserve. When I left I figured the monsoon season was pretty much over and the grass was starting to turn a lovely shade of brown. I really figured I was thru mowing for the year. It had rained a bunch while I was gone, so I spend 6 hours on the lawn mower.

Right now I REALLY enjoy sitting on anything that doesn't have a steering wheel in front of it!!!!!!