The Adventure Has Begun

I imagine I need to give you a little insight into what is going on before I walk right into a new topic.  Although this isn't art related, it is my life and I want to include it into my blog.

I have transferred to Savannah, GA for the winter so at this time I am sitting here at my computer in the Best Western in Bowling Green, KY.  We have stopped here for the night and will get into Chattanooga, TN tomorrow afternoon sometime.  I will be working out of the Chattanooga terminal for a week learning to do the dry bulk side of our company, and then will be heading on down to Savannah, unless something changes which I really hope not.  It's only for the winter and then I will be returning to Michigan in the spring... around the end of April.  I know it sounds like a long time, and after a month or so it will start feeling like a long time, but I think it will go by quickly and when it's all done hopefully I will have made an aweful lot of money and paid off a lot of bills.  This will be my first Christmas away from home in a very long time.  Here lately my life has been full of a lot of firsts.  Last Christmas was my first Christmas with my son living 2000 miles away in Arizona.  I missed him so much, and Christmas just isn't the same without him.  I also didn't put up a large tree last year.  We had a little tree on the table in front of the picture window.  I actually sent out Christmas cards last year.  This is our first Christmas with Tito and Tyson.  Well, actually Bruce will be with them for the holidays.  Anyway...lets get back to my adventure.

We left about 7am this morning and stopped in Middlebury, IN for the breakfast buffet.  I love the buffet, and not because you can eat as much as you want, but because it is all homemade amish cooking and tastes just like you wouold fix for breakfast at home.  Real eggs and fresh hashbrowns, homemade sausage gravy, bacon that is more meat than fat and cooked perfectly.  Bisquits that are small enough that you don't throw any of it away and it doesn't stuff you either.  My favorite... the scrapple with butter and syrup on it... which is also cooked perfectly.  Fresh fruit and this icey, juicy, fruit concoction with bananas, pineapple, and orange juice all frozen together and scraped like an Icee.  Little mini muffins and petite little slices of banana, blueberry, and pumpkin breads.  Mini doughnuts and fresh coffee that tastes great.  Needless to say we both left there pretty stuffed... but off we went.  It was a very nice ride down here, a little chilly, but the further south we got the warmer it got.  Not a whole lot, but enough to notice.  Tomorrow it is supposed to rain all day so we enjoyed the sunshine while we had it.

I'm gonna turn in... tomorrow comes early.