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April 27th Sunday - 47 degrees and sunny

We arrived home on Thursday around 4:30 pm.  Thanking the good Lord for a safe trip this winter.  We did indeed have a good winter with  no mishaps and had good health.  Never had to use the antibiotics that our family doctor so graciously allowed us to take along with us.

The trip from Virginia to Carlisle was beautiful.  The redbud trees were in full bloom, along with the dogwood and forsythia.  We stopped at Western Village RV Park for the night, certainly not by choice, but out of necessity, as we needed to pick up our prescriptions at the base in the morning.  It was the most expensive camp ground that we had been on in all winter, did not have internet, that we could access, no cement pads, and the water leaked.  Plus, a charge of $3.00 per person to visit us.  Well, anyhow, we had dinner with Brion and Janet Thursday night and they came back to visit with us and then on Friday morning we picked up our medication and started home.

Field of daffodils along the road

We made several stops along the way to get a few things that we needed, one being a new electric blanket for the motor home.  Ours had died while on  trip and we knew that we would need it for the rest of the summer, we certainly missed it on the cold nights in Oceana.

We stopped at Pierces for pork barbecue f or our lunch and some to bring home with us.  They are known for their good food all over Virginia and we had to double back in order to get to their place, but it was worth the drive to do so.

We dropped our Chevy off at Cole and Burd to have it inspected and have the oil changed and a lube done and scheduled a time to  pick it up the next day.

It was good to get home, and we got a lot of things carried in before it was time to go to Krista's house for dinner.  It was so good to see Matthew and he certainly was happy to see us.  Krista and Michelle had fixed us Chicken Parmesan with spaghetti with salad and homemade bread.  Certainly tasted good to tired travelers.

We have finally gotten through all of the mail and magazines and gotten caught up on the paper work, still have some things to unload, but some of it will remain in the RV until after our SMART muster in May, then we  will be going to Ives Run for two weeks the last of June and first of July.  Krista and Steve will be camping with us in their tent during that time also.  We are all looking forward to that time of camping.