Are we having fun yet?

Happy May Day! Did your special someone bring you flowers? Mine brought M&M's which won't last even as long as flowers. Oh, well, it's the taste that counts, right?

I stand chastized. I complained about the little town in Alabama, only to have my face rubbed in the fact that the people are what make a town worth more pie slices. We were driving the rig, towing the car, towards somewhere in this small town, and got lost. It's not possible to back up when you're towing a car, so after making a few fruitless turns and finding smaller and smaller roads and no town, we finally reached a place where we just had to turn around, and there was not enough room to pull forward and around. We had to unhook (15 minutes or so) and hook up again (another 15 minutes). A fellow in a truck stopped to see if we needed help. (A Samaritan? Several had "passed us by on the other side.") We said we were fine, and he drove on. 10 minutes later we pulled up behind him. He had stopped to wait for us, and asked if we were lost. We said yes, and he took the time to not just give us directions, but lead us where we wanted to go! Now that's a neighbor.

(Also we discovered Mr. J's, which has very good pizza and delicious pecan pie.)

So, my apologies to Red Bay, Alabama. You ARE worth stopping for!

Most of the damage to our RV is fixed but we have to go back to Alabama in about a month for the sagging roof, not from the hail. Meanwhile, we're now in Nashville. (If you have to kill time, why not have fun, too?) Looking forward to revisiting churches Marv served while in seminary, plus tourist highlights like the Parthenon and Ryman Auditorium as well as the schools we attended, Vanderbilt and Scarritt.

We'll also have the repairs done to our car while we're here. It will take a couple of weeks. I wish you could see the 50 hail dents in the roof of the car but the picture doesn't really show it. You'd need special lighting, I think. Most of the car panels will need to be replaced. I'm glad I'm not paying for it! Marv wants to get a new paint job so the car matches the RV. Whatever.

I mentioned slides the other day. I'm not talking about photo slides. If you've never been in a fairly recent motor home, you may not know what I'm talking about. You see an RV on the road and it is the shape of a bus, about 8' wide. But when you stop at your camping site, you slide out the side walls (above the bottom 4') of part of your RV about 2-3 feet, so your width is now 12 or 14'. We have 2 slides on each side, two in the front of the bathroom (from behind the driver's seat through the kitchen) and 2 in the bedroom. It sure makes things more livable! The bathroom is the only area on our rig that doesn't expand. Think of us as the shape of a squarish wasp and you'll have it.

Every time we open the slide that holds the refrigerator we cross our fingers. It's a lot of weight to hang out over nothing! But so far, so good.

This campsite is hopping! Lots of people here for the weekend and live music at the gazebo starting pretty soon. Let's party!