The Boomer Bus: 2015-04-12 North to Virginia

Seems the last blog we wrote was about our trip to Sarasota, FL FMCA Ralley, so I'll try to updat all our friends (all over the USA and Canada) about our ramblings.

We left Bay Minette, AL March 25th and met up with our son Jeff ( Anita's) in Live Oak, FL which is near I-10 and I-75 intersection where we had the pleasure of meeting Jeff's friend Aimee, who is a lovely and most friendly lady. She can be known as "The Farmer's Daughter" since her family owns a large farm in mid state, producing several kinds of vegetables and fruits. The strawberry crop this year produced some of the largest strawberries I've ever seen and absolutely delicious. I just couldn't get my fill of them. We bought a flat (trey-12 baskets) from a different fruit stand and just "pigged out" for a week.

We enjoyed a visit to the Swanee Music Park but didn't attend the festival the previous week.

Jeff

Aimee

Anita with Jeff & Aimee

Tom

Holly

We stopped overnight in Lexington, SC and visited with our daughter/son- in- law Jenny and Rick and grand children(and great grand children) then traveled on to Martinsville, VA to enjoy a NASCAR Race at the Speedway.We awoke to beautiful weather for the drive and it awaited us in VA. Clear skies and just warm enough with a sweater for watching the race. Of course, we had our reserved seats up high between turns one and two where we can see almost the entire track. What an exciting race it was. A couple surprises the last few laps gave us a start, and Denny Hamlin won after our favorite drivers ( Kevin Harvick, Jimmy Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr and Jeff Gordon) had their problems.

On to Chesapeake, VA to stay for a couple months to visit with family and friends and to get medical check ups. I've had a PET SCAN for my cancer but won't get results for a couple weeks. Otherwise, got a green light from my regular MD. Had some dental work completed as well. We were able to get one of our old lots in the RV park and are somewhat comfortable.

We had cracked a windshield while traveling from Vidalia, LA (across the Mississippi River from Natchez, MS) to home and we had our insurance send a new one to Chesapeake so we could get it replaced. So, day one here we had it replaced and boy, does it look good. We had a million + sand/rock chips from our trip to Alaska last Summer so it needed replacing. You would have thought someone had used sandpaper on it plus all the chips.

Entertainment wise we attended a stage production of a tribute to Hank Williams Sr in Phoebus, a small suburb in Hampton. Thoroughly enjoyable musicians and the Narrator left nothing out in his story about Hank's life. Strange though, as I can't recall knowing he was born with Spina Bifida and the pain from that was the initial crux of Hank's problem. He even included the sordid details of Hank's relations with his mother and his wife, to include the fact that Hank had a daughter out of wedlock. Hank died in the back seat of a Caddilac on the way to AL to regroup with his band. The Coroner ruled it as a heart failure

We drove down to the beach front to attend a "She Crab Soup Cookoff" but were unable to get tickets. The huge crowd along with the really small serving cups along with the ticket price made it a bit worthless anyway. SO, we drove to Margie's and Ray's Crabhouse on Sandbridge Road to lunch on She Crab Soup and Calamari. The She Crab Soup was very creamy and thick and was absolutely delicious. MAN! was it Good. We each had a bowl and ordered some scrumpous Calamari with a tasty spicy manaria sauce. At the top of my list. We shared Grilled Flounder with hush puppies that was also very good.