Monday, 10/6/25, Left Cracker Barrel’s parking lot at 8 a.m., My sister, Brenda’s surgery went well Yay!, Nice day for traveling, Got as far as Little Rock, Arkansas, stayed in a Cracker Barrel parking lot after eating there.

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Pulled the seat belt through so I could stretch my leg out and take a little nap while Bill drove.

Woke up to find out we were still in Illinois as you can tell by their cute sign.

At the rest stop took a picture of Bill by the camper

This is my favorite rest stop we stop at.  I love the lake in the background and this cute bridge

 

Lunch in the camper..chicken salad sandwich and chips.  I should have taken the picture before I ate part of it lol.

Bridge over the Mississippi River

Entering Missouri

Lydia and Evan at Jackson’s pumpkin farm

She and her mom made yummy little apple pies when they got home, and gave some to Evan and his family

 

Got up at 6:30 and got ready and read my Bible.  Bill got up at 8 and got ready.  We left the Cracker Barrel in Anderson, IN, at around 8 a.m..  We had a peaceful night’s sleep although in the morning around 6 a.m., someone’s loud car alarm was going off.  We stopped once for gas, then continued driving.  I started off being a really nice day.  We stopped again at a Rest Area in Illinois.  I had been sleeping, so was hoping we would be in Missouri already.  My leg had been hurting so I went back and got the seat belt through the recliner chair and sat in it and reclined.  Ooh, it was very comfortable.  My leg is doing better today.  Yesterday when Rehvyn turned around and ran to me, I ran to him and my leg hurt worse after that.  He was so cute running to me that I couldn’t resist.  It was really sore the rest of the day.  t like to change positions often since I got blood clots on my way home last year.  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure my mom always said.  

I was happy to hear from my brother in law, Dave, that my sisters surgery went well.  The cyst was removed and cauterized.  There was 500 ml of fluid inside the cyst.  So thankful it went well and she should be feeling much better after having that big cyst out. 

I talked to Sue for a long time.  She sounded better today.  Yesterday she was feeling depressed.  She called me back to say her niece, who helps her lots, fell in her driveway and was at the ER.  We are praying no broken bones.  Bummer, found later that she fractured her  fibia and had to have surgery.  She came through it good.

We traveled until we got to the Cracker Barrel in Little Rock, Arkansas.  We ate dinner, then are camping in their parking lot overnight.  There’s another motorhome towing a car here that is spending the night too. So nice that they let people do this.

It was a long day...we are playing 3-13 and dice after Bill reads his Bible, then going to bed.