On the Road Adventure

Jim and I just got back from a whirlwind road-trip. We left the parsonage on Monday to go to our home in Oakboro. However, we had to swing by Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to pick up a prescription for one of Jim's medicines, and that was in the opposite direction of where we needed to go. We spent Monday night in Oakboro. Jim discovered he had left the mask to his C-PAP machine, so we went to the VA hospital in Salisbury on Tuesday to get one, since he really needed it on the trip. 

Wednesday morning, we headed for Alabama, where Jim had some mission training. We spend Wednesday night at a Comfort Inn in Douglasville, Georgia, just southwest of Atlanta, which gave an easy shot over to Talladega. We stayed at the Shocco Springs Conference Center Thursday night and headed for Garland, Texas, early Friday afternoon. Garland is a suburb of Dallas, and Jim's granddaughter had just given birth to a son, Samuel Levi Zuarez.

We stayed in Brandon, Mississippi, Friday night and made it to Garland in the early afternoon on Saturday. We managed to see that great-grandson most days. He's so cute! On Tuesday, while the family was at work and school, we went to Burleson, Texas, to see some good friends who were in Roswell, New Mexico, when we were there. We had a nice visit. Wednesday we headed home and spent the night in Lonoke, Arkansas.

We had planned to go by Knoxville, Tennessee, and spend Thursday night with my son and family, but Jay was already out of school that morning, because it was snowing. I felt we would make it to Knoxville fine that day, but I worried about making it though the mountains Friday morning, so we decided to go back the southern route again. As it turned out, that was a wise decision. We spent the night in the same motel in Douglasville.

It was cold, below freezing, as we started out Friday morning, but the roads were clear there. However, the more north we went, the worse the weather got. We saw mainly freezing rain, but there were signs where it had snowed and sleeted. The roads weren't that bad until we got to Greenville, South Carolina, however. From there on, the road conditions became worse and worse. Charlotte, North Carolina, was bad, but we made it to Oakboro.

Saturday morning there was about five inches of ice and snow at our house in Oakboro, and it was about 28 degrees. Jim decided to come on back, because he'd planned to be in the pulpit Sunday. Roads were still bad in places, but we had no problems. Once we got east of Raleigh, conditions improved. We made it to Powellsville about four-thirty that afternoon. After coming through 7 states, some more than once, and braving the elements, it snowed in Powellsville Saturday night enough to cancel services. Despite how it might sound, it still turned out to be a good trip.

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