Musing about a Good Morning

Dear Friends.

Good morning and it is a good sunshine morning here in Port Orchard,, Washington.    We left Brookings, Oregon at seven thirty a.m.  Wednesday morning and traveled to Coos Bay, which is about a two and  half hour drive .   Pat had her car checked at the dealer and it proved to be a good stop with nothing wrong with the car after our battery mishap at the Port a few days earlier.  Our stop at the Mill Casino was fun and we found a lot of brand new machines to try.   I am sorry I cannot report a big win, but that 'free' from was paid for twice over....smile.

We stopped at our favorite restaurant for breakfast where the service is excellent and the food always great.  The weather had changed from clear to overcast and before the day was over we had driven in to some strange and eerie rain storms.     Driving up the highway, route five, was far from an easy ride as the huge trucks and heavy traffic never let up for a minute.  

Christine is an excellent  driver and stayed calm,cool and collected as she rode in and out of these heavy duty squalls, while I offered up allot of prayers for our safety.    I have never,or at least have not seen that kind of traffic since I made the trip up the same highway a year or so with son John.   If I remember correctly, I told him it was a trip I would never make again, but...here I was with four lanes of heavy traffic going seventy miles an hour through dense mist and teeming rain and huge trucks  and all sizes and  shapes of cars.    Some of the new cars are gray with red roofs or splashes of red on and around the headlights or bumpers.  Strange to see. You can just imagine how wonderful it felt to finally stop for a lunch break and get off the highway.  

We made it to Port Orchard at, or around six thirty, and I sighed with relief knowing I was not going to have to drive anywhere for a few days.    So here I am using Christine's computer calm, cool and collected as I know I do not have to get into the car and ride on route five.   

Christine is standing here over my shoulder  saying it really was not a bad ride . . . easy for her to say as she lives with heavy duty traffic when she goes to Seattle and rides with the 'herd' ;   as for me, Brookings traffic is about all I am used to and I may never fault it again.

We are off to enjoy the town and hopefully lunch at the Tea Room, one of my favorite stops.

Stay well, keep out of mischief.  I'll be back with more vacation news and pictures.    Be kind to one another,smile a lot today and pass out a hug or two while you are at it.   Hugs to all.