Up at 4 am this morning to head to Westfield, Pennsylvania to get a load of plastic medical supplies to take to North Carolina.  I remember getting woken up a couple of times last night due to a heavy storm.    Lots of heavy rain and thunder.    I slept in a little bit but got up in time to see all the fog.    It was really pretty hanging in the trees up in the mountains.

After we picked up our load we started looking at the time and figured we had time to stop in Middletown and see the kids.   We met at a truck stop that had a McDonald’s in it and we had lunch together.    We only got to stay about 45 minutes but it was worth it.   I got lots of hugs and kisses and Maddi painted a tattoo on my arm.     It was great seeing everybody though even if for just a little bit.    Melissa looked a bit miserable.    She only has about 6 or 7 weeks or so to go until baby Alex gets here and those last weeks aren’t fun.    She is having a lot of feet swelling and I’m sure is ready for this part to be over.     Kaiden was full of stories about all the cousins that were in this week.   They really got to surprise grandma for her birthday and there were 14 or 15 kids there I think they said and the kids had a ball with all of them.   When we first got there everyone was in the bathroom so I snuck in and to surprise them.   I got lots of hugs and kisses but then Maddi wanted to know where Papaw was.  I opened the bathroom door and she saw him and runs yelling down the hallway of the truck stop – PAPAW!!!   So sweet.    She loves her mammie but Papaw is her buddy.    They walked us back out to the truck while Greg finished getting fuel and then we had to go our separate ways.    We had 2 hours to get to a Loves in Toms Brook, Virginia so had to hurry – only to find out that the delivery time had been moved to Thursday so here we sit two hours away from the kids for the next 36 hours.    At least this will give Greg’s clock time to totally reset which it needs but its a shame we didn’t know this before we left Pennsylvania.   We could have had tonight and tomorrow with the kids.    Don’t know why it worked out this way but we try not to second guess because there is always a reason why things work out the way they do.     It will definitely give us a chance to clean the truck and catch up on some sleep we have needed since the long drive from Washington.     That’s another thing too – I was disappointed we didn’t get to California from Oregon but then seeing all the horrible fires in California I now understand that God wanted us to go a different route.    Biggest reason I try not to get too disappointed when a trip doesn’t go the way I want it to go is I know there usually a reason, whether I know it or not.

Not too many pictures tonight but a few of the fog and some of the small towns we went through today in Pennsylvania.

Goodnight, y’all.

DG: Virginia is beautiful this time of year and we parked in the back of the parking lot next to some grass and the woods. I have gotten so used to the rumble of Diesel engines I hardly notice them anymore but I did notice theM today as I took Precious for a walk and heard some birds singing in the trees and I was too keenly aware of the rumbling engines just behind me. I can’t remember the last time I was in a place where there was no sound of modern machinery.  

I am going to sleep till I’m done in the morning but to do that I have to go to bed. 

Good night and God bless.