A lot has transpired since I last wrote in my Tally Book. Monday Arda and I “toured” some of the areas in Arlington that we were familiar with and some we weren’t. Most of the places were in the latter category as it has been 20 years since we were last in Arlington. We drove past our first house in TX (in fact our first house together) and it wasn’t in too bad shape although the neighborhood has declined over the years especially when one considers the amount of new houses in the area which are considerable larger and more expensive than our house.
Next we drove past the 2nd and last house we owned in Texas. This house and neighborhood is pretty much as we remembered it.
We did enjoy the company of Fred and Lynda (Freemonski) Weekly and also Lynda’s daughter Leslie and son Joe. We all had Nachos in our trailer on Sunday. Since all of us enjoyed the Spring Creek BBQ, we went back there for dinner Monday night… you just don’t get good BBQ like that up north (as in MI).
Tuesday started out beautiful after we had rain and wind most of the night. We hooked up and head to Mesquite TX (the east end of Dallas) to visit our good friend Marguerite Kelly. She and Norm, who passed away 4 years ago, stayed at the same Lexington Apartments (A day or a life time) when we first moved to Texas in 1979. They have a beautiful daughter, Heather-Ann who lives in NY and is getting married in Oct. We had a very good time visiting Marguerite with one exception… Wrangler Dave kissed a tree in front of her house with the top of the trailer. We will see what the final cost is… can’t wait!
Thursday morning saw us on the road again headed towards Nashville TN. As we have chosen not to drive long days when we don’t have to, we decided to stop in Hazen AR which was a real treat. We pulled in, hooked up the electrical and water and just got inside before the heaven’s opened up. We were under a severe thunderstorm warning with a tornado watch. Fortunately we just had the rain and wind as the tornados did not materialize – this is one time we were happy the weatherman was wrong.
Here is a picture for one of our favorite relatives who shall remain nameless but know that “Jack” is a good friend of hers… HA! We are in his neighborhood!
Friday morning we hit the road again to Nashville – about a 5 hour drive. We looked at the weather forecast for GR and decided there was still too much snow and cold so we decided to spend 4 days instead of 2 in Nashville where it is supposed to be warmer. Guess what the weather forecast is… you guessed it colder and possible snow although not as bad as GR.
Saturday Arda and I just goofed off catching up on some reading, internet stuff, and a little shopping. That evening we went to the Grand Ole Opry where we saw Bill Anderson, Jim Ed Brown, Joe Diffie and others. It was a 2 hour show that we really enjoyed.
Sunday we woke up to another beautiful day. We drove to the other side of Nashville to visit with friends, the Barrys, who moved back to Nashville from GR about 8 years ago. We went to church with the Barrys and then returned to their house where Kats and Mark served a great lunch… it was more like a dinner. Needless to say we did not go hungry. It was good to see them again and catch up on old times. Petra used to baby sit Joe, their son, but he has grown so much I’ll bet she wouldn’t recognize him.
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Kats also looked up several places to visit on the way home to our trailer… we did get to see the Loveless Café and General Store but we were still full from lunch so decided to pass on the pies. We also got to see the Belle Meade Plantation, at least for a minute and they were in the process of closing when we got there.
Our luck held as the Parthenon was closed when we got there.
Oh well it gives us something to see next time.
Tomorrow we will do some more sightseeing, like the 14 acre hotel under glass and other places.
Happy Trails to next time.
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