I am not a happy camper.
The new air conditioner, ETA last Tuesday, then ETA today, has slipped
to ETA next Monday.
Maybe.
I cancelled it.
Tomorrow we head for Newmar in Nappanee, Indiana, where I am
sure we will be met with open arms, a big smile, and an unlimited supply of
parts just waiting to be installed.
Right. And pigs can
fly.
We visited with my son Jef last night. Had a nice time talking with him and his wife
Jessica, daughter Veronica, and son Matthew.
It was nice to catch up a bit and see the grand kids again after way too
many years.
We visited the Hollywood Cemetery here in Richmond
today. It was named for the holly trees
in the area long before tinsel-town, California was ever imagined.
The cemetery is chock full of beautiful old monuments and is
the resting place of two American presidents, James Monroe, and John Tyler, and
the president of the confederacy, Jefferson Davis.
It is truly beautiful.
That’s about all my mood will allow me to write right
now. Maybe I will write some more later.
Here’s the captain.
Captain’s Addendum: After
visiting “Hollywood,” we stopped at Lee’s Famous Chicken joint for some “Southern
fried,” baked beans, smashed taters and spiced apples. Those vittles had to be
the best we’ve ever tasted from a fast-food restaurant. Each lunch meal had two
wings and a breast. We had enough left over for sandwiches for supper last
evening.
We tromped around Hollywood Cemetery for at least two hours,
driving from place to place in the Smart Car. I found an online “highlights” tour
to lead us to the various areas with very understandable and complete
directions. Each stop on the online tour gave descriptions of what we were
seeing.
The first stop was the black iron dog guarding the grave of
a little girl who died of scarlet fever. She had loved her granddad’s statue of
the dog at his home, so he moved it to be beside her tiny grave. During the
Civil War, the dog was in danger of being melted down for military use, but no
one had the heart to remove it from the little girl’s grave. To this day there
are many tiny gifts left on her grave by visitors.
The second stop took us to a
90’ tall pyramid in memory of all the Confederate soldiers who died in the
Civil War. Here’s a link to more of the tour: http://tour.hollywoodcemetery.org/#e%3Ddbbf452f-629c-4225-a485-fe629d49046d|
Tonight (Friday 07-31) we’re planning to stay in a small RV park in West
Virginia.
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