Tuesday 4 August 2020
A quick breakfast and a trip to NY to the big stores. First was lunch we wanted to go Fran's Landing so we called to make sure they had inside dinning. Our luck strikes again due to covid they are closed now Monday and Tuesday. We survived and went to little dinner in Tioga. Up to NY first wine store, Target, gas station(tire pressure low), Kohls, Best Buy, and the dollar store. We came out of Target the rain had stopped and the sun was out. I couldn't find my sun glasses so we pulled into the dollar store and bought 2 pair, I figured when I did the tires I left them lay on the bumper. Got home unload the truck and found my glasses in my sweater pocket. Now I have 3 pairs. A good meal of fish and rice. Yum.
Wednesday 5 august 2020
Breakfast on the grill, got water(three trips), while Diane did laundry, went to grocery store, auto parts, dress store, wine, Pag Omars for corn and cantaloupe. We are heading to Florida after getting word from Kate that Tony was being put into palliative care. We packed most of our stuff. Jen and Greg stopped over to stay goodbye for now.
Thursday 6 August 2020
We were on the road by 9am and still on the road at 5pm. We hit some severe thunderstorms around 3:30 just as I thought we were going to make. We were crawling along about 40mph when bang! Passenger wiper blade came loose, parts flying and rain pouring down. We pulled off about mile down the road and I fixed it so it wouldn't scratch the windshield, back on the highway. Went 10 more miles and Diane noticed my wiper was coming loose, stopped fix that and crawled into our campground around 5:30. Miles driven 377 and expecting the same tomorrow. I just went to bed when the phone rang. It was Kate, Tony had passed away around 9pm. Oh what a sad day!!
Anthony (Tony) Ochenrider May 18 1951 to August 6 2020
RIP Dear FriendFriday 7 August 2020
After last nights news we decided to stay another day to figure things out. Diane went to the office around 10am. No can stay campground is full. After Diane made some calls we were in at a campground 10 miles away. We pulled into the Shenandoah Acres Campground just after lunch and just before more storms went through. We just kind of veg'd all afternoon.
If you look at the center, the was a bear
cub running through the campground,
nobody saw it's mama.
Saturday 8 August 2020
After a good breakfast we spent the day looking for a wiper blade and each store sent us to another around 1pm we quit and stopped for lunch at the German restaurant. We drove into Staunton to the Black Dog bike shop to get my tire fixed. They did it on the spot for $12 you can't beat that. Kate called to ask if we were still coming down and if we could take Tony's scooter along back to Pa. So we spent the rest of the day making plans to head south.
The German Restaurant
Sunday 9 August 2020
We packed up and headed south to Mayberry Campground in Mt Airy NC We pulled in around 4pm got everything situated for burgers and happy hour. A more normal day for us around 200 miles. Is is Hazy, Hot & Humid. Back inside making plans for tomorrow we have to drive down to an RV dealer to get a wiper blade then back to traveling on Tuesday.
Monday 10 August 2020
Still quite warm it was 70 degrees at 6:30 this morning. I took Rudy for a walk and started breakfast. By the time breakfast was ready I was sweating. We had our run to Bill Plemmons RV pick up our $48 wiper blade had lunch at Grandma Ruby's dinner after seeing the line at Chick-Fil-A. Lunch was good I had chicken and dumplings and sweet potato casserole(just wonderful). Diane had chicken pie which was just chicken in a pie shell covered with gravy. Both were great. Back to the camper I'm packing while Diane hit the grocery store and post office. Beef tips and noodles for diner. All three A/C's running non stop.
Tuesday 11 August 2020
We hit the road around 9:30 headed to Santee KOA. Pulled in around 4:15 all set up and settled in by 5pm. Another 300 plus mile day. And to make things even better we got a stone chip in the windshield. Still hot we ordered wings from the campground, they were OK but we probably won't get them again. Never unpacked much, plan is to head out tomorrow for Kings Bay navy base.
The CG was on Lake Marion, beautiful and very, very hot.
Wednesday 12
We were on the road by 8:30. Changed our plans and are going to try to make it to Wildwood in one day, almost 400 miles. We had a little help from South Carolina DOT. We planned three stops first one was a rest area for a coffee and break.... rest area closed! We made it pulled into Three Flag campground in Wildwood FL at 4:30. A long hard day for us. Burgers on the grill a few glasses of and we were done for night.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. 13 -15 August 2020
Not much to report. Three days in FL in the middle of August. HOT We went down to visit Kate, help her move and picked up Tony's scooter to return to the VFW. Kate and Tony bought a home just across the street with larger doorways and such to enable Tony to get around easier. He never had a chance to live in it. Kate's brother Earl and I moved some of the larger things beds, chairs and tables while Diane and Kate scrubbed bathrooms. We ended up sitting and talking(crying) just as much as working. Kate is doing as good as you can expect. A little overwhelmed with all the things to do for Tony's arrangements and moving into a new place. She will be having a memorial later(don't know when) probably at the Gratz VFW.
We visited and took some flowers out to Shawna. We also managed to get a few dinners in a the local seafood places. Trying to get together with Len but haven't heard back. Diane is at the grocery store now we hope to head back to PA tomorrow. Almost forgot we went to look at two motorhomes we found on the internet....pic's looked good. First one was moldy with the ceiling falling down, second just the ceiling was falling down.
Hopefully the ride home we will have some pictures and have happier things to report.
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