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Having recently retired we are fulfilling our long time dream. We began our camping life with a tent in 1969 adjusting as each of our three sons arrived over the years and gradually progressed to a 32' Class A in 2007. Even after our sons became too busy with their own interests, we continued dreaming over the years. The Louisville, KY 2003 Great North American RV Rally and the book "Movin' On" convinced us that a motorhome after retirement was really for us! In 2007 we sold our home and disposed of most of our belongings and awaited the wife's retirement on February 1, 2008. We were out in our first motorhome ten times in our first summer in 2007, with our grandson joining us eight of those ten times. Since he must stay behind with his mom and dad to continue school, we told him he can join us on vacations (by car or plane) anywhere we are as we travel the US. Imagine the history lessons he could acquire! However, Mom and Dad don't look at it that way, especially the flying. Fortunately we don't miss work one bit!! We just miss the friends there. We have many hobbies to keep us busy when we decide to sit still for a day. Hope to see you on the road.

Thursday, April 20, 2017

PENSACOLA FLORIDA in APRIL


Our stay here in Pensacola will be coming to an end soon! We will be pulling out on Monday, April 24th, to head north to see family and to do anything for Gary's sister that can be  done before we move on northwest to Minnesota to see our son, Ben.
Our stay here has been enjoyable in addition to keeping some doctor appointments. Results of those have been good!! We are ready to move on now with a clean slate, almost. I have to see a doctor in Ohio about medicine that he prescribed when we were there. I am not happy about the stories that I hear about this script so I have delayed beginning to take it.
April 2nd, we arrived at Eagles Landing RV Park to get the motorhome out of storage. Because of forecasts of oncoming storms, we stayed there for two nights before moving into Pensacola to Drifter's RV Park for the month. Turned out the storms were not as bad as they were leading us to believe.
We just got parked at Drifter's and pads under the wheels when I left Gary to take care of the rest as that was the day to get back with a TOPS Club that I had met with in January and February. I sure need the regular meetings. So I got a surprise when I walked in that day for it was their annual Recognition Day for their chapter members.

A member reading a story that she
wrote about the 50 year history of this
chapter's existence. 




My inspiration looser, Michelle.

Seven KOPS in the black!

It turned out to be a very inspirational day!! They have seven long time KOPS members in the chapter. I was also happy to make the acquaintance of a gal that has had a loss every week for at least the full past year. I am trying to keep my thoughts focused on her success.

Gary and I enjoy our visits with friends and have made connections with most of them here in Pensacola. We began by meeting with friends, Howard and Lana, at Patrella's Italian Cafe' for their lasagna special on Wednesday and then an Easter carry-in dinner a week early with our Sunday School class at Olive Baptist.
Olive's full choir with orchestra below.
They looked great with all of their spring colors!
They have quit using their choir robes because
of the cost to have them cleaned.
Friday, April7th, we drove across the bay to Pace, Florida to meet up with some of these friends to attend a Gospel Concert of the Hoppers.  This was very enjoyable and we plan to see them again when they are at Hartville in Ohio in May.  Their grandson is an awesome pianist and Claude Hopper's wife, Connie, is the Southern Gospel female vocalist of the year for many years. You will have to look them up on the Internet as my pictures did not turn out well.

After all doctor appointments,

Gary met up with a friend with his boat for a day of fishing in the rivers of the area. They did catch a little, but only Dennis caught any keepers.
Dennis - Archive photo
from a different year!
The had an enjoyable day. I spent my day scrapbooking while they were gone.
Some of the friends here are doing their share of traveling also. Lana and Howard went to Texas for an Easter with with children and grandchildren. Howard is now officially retired and they are taking advantage of it. He's hardly broken the ice though. They along with three other couples flew this week to Phoenix AZ for a bus tour of that area to include the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, and Las Vegas. We will be gone before they return so will miss out on their stories. But we did go out to eat with them one last time before they left. We went to PoFolks right after church on Easter. We always enjoy their southern food and we knew that we could get in there quickly and be served in a timely manner even though it was a holiday.  We sure had many left-over meals from all of this eating out!

















The Monday following Easter we left and went to Perdido Beach to enjoy the awesome weather. I sure need to toast on the back side now!
We also took a day to go to our favorite bookstore, Hawsey's, and spent a day stopping at Thrift Stores with a stop for lunch along one of Pensacola's Bays.
Sunset Grille

With a view of the bay.

Delicious Shrimp Salad!
Gary's usual Reuben.

April 19th, we also went over into Alabama to DeRailed Restaurant for dinner with a long time friend, Karen.

She was a renter of ours back in the '70's. She has lived in Alabama for the past 28 years. We always enjoy catching up on life!!
Except for catching up on the mundane tasks here at home, life has been mainly enjoyable because of the weather!

See you soon!  Our trip back north has been planned with a few stops on the way. So we are looking forward to more visits and some new sights.



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