I Have Been To Italy

Well, actually I have been in Kansas all this time BUT my credit card number was in Italy.  It was having a grand old time.  I am not sure all it purchased but it I do know it stayed in a really nice hotel.  Isn’t it sad that your credit card ends  up having a grand old time while you are stuck in Kansas… Sigh  You know something the person using my credit card did all of these fun things absolutely free.  Fortunately I paid for protection against these things.  All I had to do was cut up my globe trotting credit card (that will teach it to have fun without me) and wait for a new one.

Question – Have you ever done something so stupid that you wonder, after the random act of stupidity, what the heck you were thinking?  I arrived at my daughter’s home and there sitting on her counter was Robert’s Christmas present to her.  A Keurig which is a single-cup brewer.  At first I considered it a doo dad.  Hannah patiently showed me how to brew my own teas with it and then she showed me how to use the K Cups.  K Cups hold coffee, tea, hot chocolate etc.  The next morning I decided to brew a cup of decaf coffee on my own and it tasted so good I had a few more cups of joe.  At the end of the week Hannah came home and I met her at the door with a big old howdy and said  “hihoneyhowwasworkIdidthelaundryIplayedwiththedogsandbythewayyouareoutofdecaf.  I was wired for sound.  I have been off the caffeine long enough for it to really be potent.  So we headed for the store to purchase more coffee.   I ended up buying a small Keurig for myself.  I live in a van and I have absolutely no idea where I am going to store it when we are traveling.  I only purchased decaf coffee and I have all the tea I need.  So no more bouncing off the walls and staying up till 3 a.m.

This afternoon will be my last visit with the dentist and we will be heading out tomorrow morning for Camdenton.  After Camdenton we will be heading to Las Vegas New Mexico or someplace near.  It will feel good to be on the road again.

Life is good.

 

We Made It

We arrived in Kansas around 11:30, just in time for lunch.  Hannah and Robert took us to Bo Ling's, one of my favorite restaurants.   Unfortunately it was right next door to Half Price Books.  The afternoon was spent browsing through books and talking.  Hannah and I both have a love of poetry.  We also share the dislike for romance books.  She works among books and she says the romance books always smell of tacos, menthol vapor rub and cigarette smoke.  I am sorry if this offends some but reading a romance novel is like reading the same book over and over and over.   Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a central love story and an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.  I like substance, I like variety and I don’t need a happy ever after.  I am not in the norm when it comes to this way of thinking because romance sells and sells big. 

Tomorrow I meet my new doctor. Life is good.

Topless Interstate Driving

We are in the state of Oklahoma this evening and tomorrow around noon we will be sitting down having lunch with my daughter. 

It has been pretty boring the past couple days with the exception of one morning.  I did the usual morning routine and we took off.  About thirty minutes later I started scratching.  I could see the bumps appearing on my arms.  I made a quick dash into a Dollar General Store and bought Benadryl lotion.  By the time I got to the counter it was obvious I was breaking out.  I made the comment that I am going to have to take my shirt off the minute I get into the van.  That caused an eyebrow to lift from the cashier.  I medicated myself and put on sleeveless shirt.  About a half hour later the itching stopped and eventually the redness disappeared.  The strange thing is when I put on the shirt I wore when I developed the rash, I broke out again.  I am allergic my to my shirt.  It is an old shirt that I have worn countless times.  I plan to wash it and then see if I break out.  I hate to throw out an old friend. 

I told mom that I would get us to Hannah’s on time even if it means driving topless to Kansas….  Fortunately that didn’t happen.

Life is good.