Today is a good day to drive! We drove across Amarillo, TX to visit with Will's Navy buddy, Ron. We found him in the same park we had met him in about ten years ago. These two men met fifty years ago aboard The USS Platte. ( Platte made almost yearly deployments to the western Pacific Ocean from 1960 to 1968, including extensive operations in Vietnamese waters and refueling the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) task group off Korea during the Pueblo incident . Platte served with the Pacific Fleet into 1970. She was sold for scrapping on 14 May 1971.) Ron suggested La Fiesta Grande for an early dinner, a great Mexican place. It was fun listening to the stories all starting with, "Do you remember...." We dropped Ron back off at home and met Don, a neighbor. See you again somewhere sometime, Ron. Okay, so check out these drinks that were delivered to the next table!
We loaded the Roadtrek and headed east of Mount Pleasant to visit with Nicole, and our grandchildren. The family was living in a fifth wheel at the gate of Willie’s “church” Taryn was in his father’s arms. Calypso is a proud dad. Damiana and Finnaeus are proud siblings and Blitz, Issac, the family dogs, and the family cat, are protective.
We lived next door in our Roadtrek for three days. We made meals, blazed a trail to the spring, giggled, played old maid and tic-tac-toe, picked wild raspberries, laughed, hiked through the corn field to visit Sponge Bob, carried our safety whistles, looked at pictures on the computer, napped in the grass, said the Pledge when Will put up the flag, made graphs of M&Ms (Thanks Stella.), found critters with legs, critters with wings and critters with slime, used a compass so we didn’t get lost in the corn field and a walkie talkie to keep in touch, celebrated Taryn’s birth, a
nd packed up everything in the fifth wheel.
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