Pre-cruise Report

Hey Friends, 

This Odie checking in from Florida. Today I am returning from the Singing At Sea cruise. I am just now getting off the boat in Tampa and we have had a super great time. I will be catching a plane and flying to Texas to meet up with my parents.

Let me rewind to last Sunday and tell you about the first day of my vacation. It was a travel day. I flew from Monroe, Louisiana to Tampa, Florida. I had to make a connection and plane change in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank God everything went according to plan. I arrived safely as did my scooter and luggage. 

In Tampa, I met up with Kaylene Stevens. We spent the afternoon resting from our crazy early morning of traveling. In the evening we went to dinner and prepared our luggage for the ship. We also enjoyed catching up and being together for vacation once again. 

Here are a few pictures from Sunday. 

My alarm went off way to early. I had to give myself a reminder to be happy. 

At Monroe, Louisiana airport. 

Vacation bound 

Lunch in Atlanta airport, cauliflower fried rice and chicken. 

Starbucks stop courtesy of my Christmas gift from Aunt Holly and Jonas. 

Wonderful Tampa, Florida weather. 

Dinner at McAlister’s Deli. 

We stayed Sunday night at Double Tree Westshore. The hotel was nice and the staff were all friendly and helpful. Monday was cruise day. More to come later on the cruise. Here are a few pictures from Monday. 

Thanks for reading. See you back on land. 

Odie

Revival In Pictures - Bernice, Louisiana

With our photographer on vacation this week, it required a little more concentration and effort on our part to have enough pictures for a Revival In Pictures post this week. Thankfully, Pastor Brandon's daughter and a few others helped us out. I did add a few pictures, including the food pictures.😆

We had a wonderful few days with the fine people of Abundant Life Holiness Church in Bernice, Louisiana. As I mentioned earlier, this was our first visit to this church, but we have known a few of the folks for quite some time. We appreciate them opening their arms to us and accepting us so well.

Don't tell Odie, but while she was on vacation, we made it just fine with a little help from our friends.

We appreciate Pastor Michael Brandon and his family for inviting us into their home and into their church for revival. May God bless them all for their kindness. We look forward to coming back again.

Thank you for reading today, friends. We have been receiving reports spontaneously the last few weeks from people that have been faithful readers for months and even years. We would never have known if you had not told us! Thank you for letting us know you enjoy our Mile Markers.

Davy

More Fun On The Road

$5 Part Installed

Monday was the warmest day of the week in Bernice, Louisiana so I needed to tackle the windshield wiper repair. Our next travel day is nearly 400 miles and there is a 100% chance of rain. Yep, time to get it done. 

I borrowed a ladder from Pastor Brandon, gathered a ratchet, socket, screwdriver and small pair of Channellock plyers and waded in.

I said it was the warmest day of the week, but it was only 50, very windy and the bus was in the shade. That grew a ten minute job by a few minutes, but we got it. I also changed the wiper blade.

Broken part and a new part.

I will replace the unbroken bracket on the passenger side when it is warmer.

More Fun

Sunday afternoon the drive to Bernice Louisiana was smooth and uneventful for us, but not so smooth and uneventful for a guy we were following. Between Farmersville and Bernice, this nice older GMC pickup pulled out on the road and we followed him for a few miles.

The truck was bouncing from white line to yellow line like a pinball so I backed off and let him have room to bounce.

Later, I was so glad I gave him some room. He was bebopping along and all of a sudden his hood flew up. The dashcam caught the moment it happened.

Here it is zoomed in.

He quickly pulled over and there happened to be a wide spot in front of him where I could pull over too.

Can you see that the hood is not only flung open, but it is hanging completely wopperjawed? It is hanging by the hinge on the passenger side. The driver's side hinge is up in the air.

I do not know if the hood latch in front was undone and as the hood came up, the bolts on the main hinge on the driver's side were sheered loose or if the main hinge came loose first, but it was a mess.

Fortunately, the driver was able to see how to pull over and somehow the windshield avoided getting broken. The hood itself was bent a little, but was in remarkably good shape. The big hinge was bent so I bent it back toward normal and we were able to set the hood back in place without scratching either of the fenders or the hood.

It would not go down enough in the front to latch so we tied the latch to the bumper with a rope. He was good to go, so he went.

I do not love huge rims and ultra thin tires, but the truck was beautiful. Turns out it was a 1977 GMC Cheyenne 10

Like I said Tuesday, it is never boring out here on the road.😇

Hey, thanks for reading!

Davy