#75 April 9, 2022 Nomad Diary: Long Ago Friends. Week-long Tour: Huntsville, Alabama to Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Vancouver, WA.

Vancouver, Washington Farmers Market flower stand

Week's Highlights

Sunday: In Dallas, Georgia visiting with our long-ago friends (Fri-Sun lunch):  Mickey, Phyllis, and grown 'kids' and worshipping with them.  Driving southward for overnight in a hotel.

Walking through Gibbs Garden with Mickey, Phyllis and Carol. 

Gibbs Garden in the flowers!

Monday:  Meetup and lunch with long-ago friend, Michael, who is a federal manager at Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge in Southern Georgia.  We tour the swamp. Drive to Daytona Beach hotel on our way to Ft. Lauderdale.

Us with Mike, the manager of the swamp, giving us a personal tour! We all knew each other as teenagers and 20-somethings! The swamp is amazing!  Take the earliest tour you can for less sweating, and less people!

Swamp alligators 

Swamp baby Barred owls 2 days out of nest.

Tuesday: Arrive Ft. Laudedale and turn our truck into long term storage through May 16th.  Spend the night at a hotel.

Ft Lauderdale at Sunrise 

Wednesday:  Flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Portland Oregon to visit grandson Quinn and his parents :)

Thursday: Walking in Vancouver with Andrea and Quinn who love, love, loves trucks and construction vehicles,  etc. 

Quinn fascinated with trucks.

Friday: Walk on Nature trail. Quinn finds a big stick and gets really happy!

Quinn and his stick.

Darrell's attempt at gluten-free pancakes that failed. 

Saturday Activities: First breakfast at our airbnb and a phone call with Darrell's Mom. Brunch planned at Jeremy and Andrea's started with an idea of gluten free pancakes and sausage. The pancakes turned out not so great as they were too gummy in texture. I ate a couple of them. Everyone else passed on the gf pancakes and had toast with eggs! 

Jeremy, Quinn and Andrea on the street where they live.

We all loaded into our rental truck and drove to downtown Vancouver for the farmers market. Darrell and I bought dark chocolate hazelnuts and cinnamon almonds. It was chilly and rained a little bit. We drove back to the house. The guys went for a walk. Andrea put Quinn down for a nap and then I chopped onions, garlic and chipotle pepper to assist her combining and browning pork pieces to bake into Mexican Pork in her Dutch Oven. It smelled great all afternoon. 

Vancouver, Washington Farmers Market looking in one of 3 directions.

Snack time at Farmers Market 

Vancouver city park with huge trees, Jeremy,  Andrea and Quinn pausing to get the stroller cover in place for the rain. A pair of mallards in the grass.

Nomad Notes:  

Darrell still downsizing. Here he donates his special "flown over the capitol" flag to Mitch for his son's Boy Scout Troup! Mitch was pretty excited since his son's eagle project had to do with the US flag! In the background is Mickey, Mitch's Dad.Last time we saw Mitch was 1985. He was a teen then! 


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