"Today is a Good Day to Drive!" .....Van-Go

The little neighbor girl came to play with our nesting dolls from Russia

April 30, 2009

April 27, 2009 Taryn, working on his twos and Annakin, just making three months:

check the earlier posts; I'm adding pictures! Running over dandylions

April 25, 2009 It was nice to see Maria and Jessica; we had a nice visit. Jessica is such a young lady these days. Where oh where did that little girl go. She is inside alive and well peeking out every chance she gets! Takes after her mom!

April 24, 2o09 Jayne has wonderful neighbors; we invited Maryanne and Greg over for dinner. We picked up Jayne's sister, Ruth, to join us.

April 23, 2009 We came back to Pittsburgh because Jayne has her breast cancer back even though she had the breast removed. The lesions are on the skin and under her arm and have matastisized. She will begin radiation treatments as soon as we have the doctor consultation confirming the need for the treatment. He had told us over the phone that it is for quality of life that he is suggesting it. If unattended the lesions will open to sores and be very uncomfortable. Next step is a CT at Allegheny General Hospital; the cancer center will use this scan to line up the body each visit so the radiation is given to the same area each time. We are here so she doesn't have to worry about rides each day for the next five or six weeks of treatment. She is doing well and is very positive each day not worrying about what she can not change.

April 22, 2009 No matter where you want to go in Pittsburgh or the surrounding area there is traffic!

April 21, 2009

Played with the grandkids today. Met our newest Annakin. What a doll baby.

April 19, 2009 We don’t usually drive fast enough to collect bugs on our windshield, but we have plenty of the squished guts smearing across it this trip. We have been taking I70 east with our average speed being 60mph. We are making about 300 miles a day coming from Texas to Pennsylvania. We spent three days in Branson, MO and enjoyed four shows of the Red Head Express (Check them out at http://www.redheadexpress.com/ to see why they grabbed our attention.) Our other stop was in St. Louis where we rode up into the Arch, an experience well worth the stop. Read more about these adventures by clicking on Older Posts at the bottom of this one. We are down on our last leg of our trip to Pittsburgh, the drive across Ohio, through the panhandle of West Virginia and into Pennsylvania. The city of Columbus, OH drifted by. About a hundred miles we stopped at a rest area and enjoyed dinner and played a round of Scrabble then continued on.

April 18, 2009 The rest area was beautiful with the blossoms busting open and announcing spring. A robin hopped about listening for worms. Will strummed his guitar; think he likes his birthday present?! We headed east on I70. We are going to open a new restaurant called Van Go’s Bread & Beak-fest and our motto will be “ All of our food is fowl!” One of our dishes will be called Red Head Express, essentially a bowl of turkey legs served over spaghetti. This is the kind of thing we talk about while driving down the interstate. Indianapolis Raceway is surrounded by city homes; we finally made our way to the entrance, under the bridge and into the infield. We could hear zoom zoom. It was just about closing; Kathy ran in to the visitor center and picked up an embroidered patch and then we went and stood overlooking the track waiting for a car to zoom past. None came. Next visit we will come earlier so Will can ride in a race car! Just east of Indianapolis on I70 the vehicle in front of ...

April 17, 2009 The ride up the Arch is an experience! You climb through a small door into an egg with seats. The ride, a combination between an elevator, a tram, and an amusement park ride. About four minutes brings you to the top where triangle windows open to the city and Mississippi River below. We spent about an hour up there; you can spend as much time as you like as the ride goes back down every ten minutes.

Saint Louis Arch April 17, 2009 Back on the road! We first stopped in Ozark, MO and filled up with gas at five cents less tank price at the Walmart making it $1.76. What is the gas price in your area? About one hundred miles west of Saint Louis, MO we stopped at a rest area for breakfast and soaked up a few moments of sunshine. The blossoms are out on the trees; we are following spring east! The Saint Louis Arch, Gateway Arch, is part of the Jefferson Expansion National Memorial. The stainless steel arch is the brainwork of Eero Saarinen, a Finnish-American architect whose design won the national competition of 1947, when he conceived the arch to celebrate the soaring mind of Jefferson the only architect-President. As a monument to Jefferson if fails; to make it a true monument to Jefferson we suggest a dramatic statue of Jefferson rather than the little bronze statue under the arch. The Arch is pretty dramatic. “The lines can be drawn mathematically, the in the end the Arch as a poeti...

April 16, 2009 All we can say is visit them at http://www.redheadexpress.com/ and get there album; you will love their music! We had three wonderful days together; we caught four of their shows! The are great musicians and super people!