Will try to bring things up to date......
The wake-up call came on time: 5:30AM.....UGH!!!! We struggle out of bed and hurried around to get things gathered and taken to the car. Jeremy wanted to be on the road by 6:30AM back to Baton Rouge and so we grabbed some coffee and dropped him at his car in a parking lot.
We were on the road....I-10 EAST.....by 6:30.....and after driving through the devastation that we had seen....going the other way....on Sunday, we were almost at Slidell by the time the 1st Lady informed me that we were going the WRONG direction. SHIT!!!
Why the hell does a person doing something because of "force of habit"????? AND.....just take things for granted that you are doing the RIGHT thing........and then you find out that you are doing something that is totally wrong because of the above????????????? For several years when Dr. Jeni, Darrel, and Meghan lived in Biloxi, MS.....I would run over to the Fr. Quarter and spend a day and evening just enjoying the ambience of the Quarter. And then I would return to Biloxi.......going EAST on I-10!!!! JUST WHAT I WAS DOING YESTERDAY MORNING!!!!
Soooo, just about the time yesterday that I/we realized we not going to catch I-55 at Slidell......the phone rang and it was Jeremy. His car was having great difficulty crossing the western bridges of I-10 WEST going over Lake Ponchetrain(sp?).........and then he called again and it had pulled off the road at LaPlace just where the road heads north to Baton Rouge. He said it seemed "serious", so when we got to Slidell, we took I-12 west and then we took I-55 south at Hammond to come out RIGHT where he was at a local truck stop/gas station. By the time we drove to where he was stopped we had then driven almost 80 extra miles.....the wrong way to Missouri.
Well, he had already called for a tow truck and as soon as it arrived we followed it and his car to an Auto Diagnostic Center about two miles down the road. He HAD to get to Baton Rouge as his candidate was flying around the state yesterday having announced Press Conferences at various cities......and Jeremy was to make certain all went well from his office in Baton Rouge.......trying to control unexpected happenings as the day progressed.
We took him to his house to clean up...and when we got there, the other guys who share this large house with him had taken the key and the house was locked........soooooooooooo: we drive back across Baton Rouge to the office, get the key.....and drive back across Baton Rouge to his house. He gets ready as quick as possible, but then he has a scheduled conference call so he has to take care of that before going to the office. Finally......we deposit him at his office and we get back on the CORRECT highway, I-12 EAST which junctures with I-55 North at Hammond, LA.
MANY, MANY miles more than we had planned to drive on the trip back to F'town!! By the time we arrived back here last night sometime after 10pm......we had driven quite a few miles over 700.....and it is only 597 miles the CORRECT way. Oh well.........everyone's children, no matter how old, still call when we are needed for help.......and that is as it SHOULD BE!!!!!
And soooooo, this morning is like having a hang-over!!!! Still tired and just sort of out of it......and the damn weather here in SE Misery is sooooo hot and humid, but exceedingly dry on the ground. No rain ......it seems like forever.
More later.......
Life is Great......and I hope it is for all of you, also!!!!
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