Up at 6:30 and on the road.   Heading to Jessup with our load of chewing gum.  

It’s been a pretty uneventful day.  Greg drove 550 miles.   That’s a lot of driving.   He gets in the zone now though and it doesn’t seem to bother him.   

Getting a little bit of fall color but still not a lot.  A lot of green yet still.  

   
   
We have a 7 am appointment in the am so heading out about 6 to go get in line.  This one truck stop has over 300 parking spots. Hope we aren’t all going to the same place in the morning.   

DG: That’s doubtful, but my hope is the same. 

We have talked about having the favor of God and all his blessings. And I am amiss by not mentioning everyday the way that God guides and blesses us. Especially when we ask. Well, most every night we ask for a good parking space and sometimes just a place to park when it’s very late. Well, tonight it wasn’t “late” when we entered the truck stop but it was filling up fast and all of the front row spots closest to the bathrooms, the preferred spots, were taken, so we head for the second row. A driver was attempting to walk across the lot so I stopped to allow him to walk in front of me but instead of crossing he comes up to the truck. I roll my window down to see what he wants.  He wants to give us his parking spot as he is about to leave. He waits for me to turn around and as soon as I get close he pulls out and there you go. Highly favored. You can call it coincidence if you want, but I know who’s responsible. 

So, yesterday I wrote a couple of very witty and entertaining paragraphs regarding a funny thing that happened at a rest area the other day. And then I didn’t save them. And they’re gone. So here is the short version. 

We pull into a rest area to do rest area business. Business is booming so I don’t need any delays. Low and behold I look up, after setting my brakes and logging off, and low and behold but what do I see?  Five big yellow school buses all in a line with lines of high school aged boys filing off and into the rest area. There was no way I was going to get to use those facilities in time. Brakes off, in gear, head to the next stop for relief. It was much longer and wittier yesterday. But alas, that version is lost in the ethers. 

Tonight’s episode brought to you by Sleep Now, the feeling you get after a long day on the road. 

God bless.