A Cat Up in the Tree!

I did not make mention of my upcoming journey . . . It was to be a surprise for Mom! We did pull it off. The secret was kept.

I rode in(to VA)with a family and a few extras (including us the count was 19) on a old 1964 bus revised to fit the needs. The needs consisted of a refridgerator, cook stove, table, sink, a bit of counter, and of course bunk beds. To top all this off Dale cut a trap door down into one of the lower baggage compartments where they put a mattress and rigged it so you could turn on the lights. It was used by some of the younger ones to snooze a bit or play games. I tried it out until someone shut the trap door . . . I decided then that it was time to go back "upstairs".

A big plus for me was that my babies (Loraine and Wayne) didn't have to be buckled up in their car seats. The down side was that the bus had some problems. The first day after going very slow up slight ingrades or hills . . . We finally changed the fuel filter. All was well then until we entered PA were we had a stand still on the interstate. We tried to wait patiently while Dale and Sanford fixed the brakes that had gotten locked up.

Needless to say after being in the bus for a day, a night and a day I was exhausted! I began to feel like a cat up in a tree . . . I did not know how I was going to make it traveling back home. . . But I knew that I would have to "make it". I could not live without seeing my husband and boys again. "I" wasn't all there some of me was left in MN.