Old Friends

Saturday morning we are up and off to the memorial service. It is a fitting tribute to Ray who was a good man and well loved by so many. We are so pleased that we are able to be part of this celebration of life.

After the luncheon we say goodbye to old friends and head north on a secondary road amidst green pastures with cows and tiny, newborn calves. There are some impressive horse farms and we remark that West Virginia is a very pretty part of the country. After an hour or two we cross into southeastern Ohio and a four lane highway. The landscape turns flatter, but still green and lots of grazing land and farms.

We realized that our route was going to take us through Dayton and then to Indianapolis. Jeff and I have a dear friend who lived in Dayton and we decided to call him. I wasn't able to get a phone number through 411 so I called Jan & Harvey in South Carolina and they found the number on the internet. Oh I love the modern technology. So we called Bob Lawner and arranged to meet him for dinner. This is so weird as Bob was a friend of Jeff's at Boston University in 1965. Later I met Bob on a blind date - the same date that I met Jeff. Surprise, I was fixed up with Bob! Anyway we were great friends and Bob was an usher in our wedding.

Bob arrived with his kids Stefan and Sara (hope I spelled that right) and we had a great time reminiscing and telling the kids all the dumb things we used to do. After showing them the RV and introducing them to Ziggy we had to leave. We arrived in Indianapolis around 11pm and found a WalMart and passed out.