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Oct 27 2007

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Marcia

Forward to go backward

Posted at 5:11 am under Making Magic Happen, banter

At the beginning of our journey toward our dream to RV and have money to eat in our old age, I wrote that we had come up with a plan and had to go backward to move forward.

In my brilliance on our trip while looking for a hotel room in a larger city with many exits, I suggested we go to the farthest exit to book a room, thinking we would miss the rush hour traffic in the morning - and this was during afternoon rush hour. Hotels started at exit 64, we drove all the way to 75 to discover we didn’t like the area, and having been burglarized during a trip years ago, we didn’t want to increase the odds of it happening again. So, we turned around — to face the blinding sun, oops.

We carefully made our way back past other exits we didn’t like the looks of, too industrial or too rundown, to exit 68. At last, a few chains we normally were happy with! Let’s splurge, I suggested, and stay at that hotel! OOPS, another convention in town… all full at this exit.

We ended up taking a room at exit 65, hmmm, driving all those extra miles in slow, but impatient rush hour traffic, in blinding sun. We then chose the wrong restaurant…. Y’all remember, please, that the number of cars in a parking lot does not always match the quality of food or service!

I guess we went forward to go backward because of my brilliance, I obviously forgot how well moving backward to go forward had been working for us.

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2 Responses to “Forward to go backward”

  1. Shelbyon 27 Oct 2007 at 5:01 pm 1

    oh well… sometimes you just can’t tell what’s gonna happen even if you plan it all out perfectly… enjoy the adventure :)

    I am enjoying the adventure, Shelby, in spite of the stress. I am, I am, I am.

  2. Mabelon 29 Oct 2007 at 7:39 am 2

    I am so glad you did go back and found a room.My mentality would not have let me do that,I would have forged ahead with hopes of finding a good place out of town.You know me ever the optimist and maybe driving into the night because I made that choice.

    We have done that, and actually did a few times, Mabel… Leon has that mentality, and tried to talk me into just driving all night… I’m too old for that… I like my sleep anyway.

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