What a Trip

It was still overcast when my eyes could focus enough to see out the window. I was in the kitchen making coffee and trying to see what time it was on the clock in the entry. It takes a while for me to clear my vision in the mornings and this morning was no different. Sherri was up taking inventory of all we packed yesterday to make sure she had all she needed. I too had packed up all my goods for the trip away from our home on wheels. I don’t like staying in motels but I know in some cases we have to and this was one of them.

Sherri is only working two days in Jackson and we decided to leave the RV at Hickory Creek COE. Originally we had planned on taking it to our place… I could see no advantage of dragging it to our lake lot in the pouring down rain and having a chance of  getting it stuck out there. I still had not had the time to hook up the electric from the pole to the barn so that too would not be an easy task in that kind of weather. So we opted to leave the RV at Lake Lewisville and just drive in the truck to Jackson for the the two days.

We left out a little later than we had planned. The clock on the wall said 6:30 when we pulled out of the space and got out on the road. We had planned on eating breakfast at Diamond Jacks Casino in Shreveport which is about half way for us. They serve breakfast for 1/2 price to seniors until 10:30 Monday thru Thursday. This meant that we could both eat a breakfast buffet for $4.50 each. And I can pack away a lot of groceries at a buffet so the price was right up my alley.

OK so we got on the road at 6:30…this gave us about 3 hours to get there which would not be any problem for me. But as things would have it the gods were not in our favor on this trip to breakfast….

First rattle out of the box after about 45 minutes on the road Sherri had to make a pit stop….no problem…found a McDonalds…stopped…Sherri was in and when she got out she could not find the truck….she went out the back door and I was standing at the front door waiting on her. This was my first chewing out…for not being where she wanted me to be. She did find me and we were on our way once more.

About 25 minutes down the road Sherri started screaming…She undid here seat belt and got up out of her seat turned completely around in the truck and while standing between the windshield and the front seat started pointing and screaming. Needless to say I was a little rattled. “Stop the Truck” “Stop the Truck” Her orders rang out  between the screams.

Meanwhile…I was trying to maneuver my 70 MPH missile off the highway without killing us and all the people around us. She finally was able to get out the words “Big Brown Spider”….then more screams and more orders about getting the truck stopped. More orders were given…kill it…get something and kill it. I finally saw the spider….yes it was a man eater alright…I got the truck stopped… got out…took a Kleenex grabbed the behemoth spider between my thumb and index finger and tossed it out on the side of the road. I tossed it well off of the road as not to cause any other cars from running over it and maybe flipping or damaging their bumpers on impact. I also took time to reassure Sherri that there was not a nest of these man eaters in the truck and that this one was probably working this truck my himself.

Soon I was allowed to continue on our journey…time was getting shorter for that omelet at Diamond Jacks. We were about an hour and a half from the greatest breakfast on earth when up ahead all I could see was tail lights coming on….did someone else have a spider in their car? The closer we got the more I could see that we were going to be in big trouble with this traffic jam. Time was of the essence and we were coming to a dead stop. This lasted for about 15 minutes…thank heavens we were not that far behind the wreck and it had just happened so we managed to get on around it in short order.

AHHH life is good and it looks like me still might make it to the buffet before they shut er down. Then up ahead once more I spotted an unsettling sight. The clouds were getting darker and starting to dip down with the weight of the rain in them. Then the clouds started to let loose all the rain which they had been storing for some time. It rained so hard that it was hard to see 50 feet ahead even with the windshield wipers on ludicrous speed. How was this going to play into getting to the buffet on time. I never let up on the gas peddle…I did all the right things and low and behold we made it to Diamond Jacks in one piece and the buffet was ours for the taking.

After our breakfast we headed on East to Vicksburg and the Ameristar Casino…where we played for some time without winning much. Sherri decided that we should try the Diamond Jacks down the street and so we left there and tried our luck at that casino. Long ago we had been here when Diamond Jacks was the Isle of Capri. They had the best dinner buffet we had ever had…so when we got through gambling there we tried it out. If you are ever in Vicksburg you have to try the buffet out at Diamond Jacks….believe me it is the best. The dinning room has a window from one end to the other overlooking the Mississippi River and all the barges going up and down…..and the food is the best ever!!! I cannot say enough good things about this Casino….and I won money there too.

Well we made it on in to Jackson Mississippi that night about 8:30. Got our motel room and settled in for a quiet evening. Soon we were off to sleep and dreaming about…

Somewhere in Time