After Texas

Well our time in Texas has ended, yeah!! We had all these plans for our trip home and it started off ok. When we got almost to Lafayette we realized there was a storm coming. Early the next morning we took off seemingly just ahead of the storm. As we traveling across I-10 the man from the swamp tour called and cancelled. So we continued on. We arrived in New Orleans early afternoon. We parked along the street at John's Step mom's house. Where he grew up. We were visiting when the lighting and thunder caught up to us. It was a gully washer. The street flooded. Water was up on on tires of the Jeep and trailer. About 2 hours later it was all pumped down. In New Orleans they have large pumps that suck out the water.

We then went over to Aunt Merle's. She insisted that we stay in her house instead of sleeping in the trailer in her driveway. We had a great visit and I learned alot about John's early life. It also gave Aunt Merle a chance to talk about her Mr. Paul.

We went on Sunday to the Mardi grau parade. I turned into a 10 year old and collected two bags of beads and stuffed animals, a football and socker ball, and plastic cups. It was great fun. We didn't get a chance to go downtown where all the real partying was going on. But that was alright.

We traveled on the next morning, the Jeep seemed to be experiencing a reduction in power but we pulled off and when we restarted it seemed fine. We stayed just east of Tallahassee at a KOA. The next morning it became clear only after a few miles that we were experiencing a problem with the power again. This time stopping and slowing didn't cure it. We made a couple calls and determined we should go up to Valdosta, Ga (30 miles) rather than backtrack to Tallahassee (45 miles). We got a campground located and dropped the trailer and John took the Jeep to the dealer. Late that day he came back and said they told him to limp on home and get it fixed at home because it would take several days. So we had to cancel our stop in Daytona to see my mom.

We took the slow way home and the next day we took the Jeep to the dealer. It did take a few days to get it serviced. Now all is well except the bank account. We started in on our yard and John got back to work. It really feels good to be home again.