Awake: 7:01 Temp 42 sleep 6+42 sunny… cool & windy overnight @ Theodore, AL.
Walk to the campground office & sign up for another nights stay. After perusing our (5) different campground books, I make a call to a campground in Florida, talk with Steve, ask our usual questions & then make a reservation for Saturday @ their campground.
Kathy does (2) loads of laundry & ironing while I continue to be on the hunt for Ted & Jane’s phone number; Google is good & has a lot of info most people don’t realize they have.
After many tries & going in different directions to find J & T’s phone number without paying a fee, I found a story about this pilot & his wife who were in a serious motorcycle accident together a few yrs ago but the last name was misspelled. According to this article, the accident was not their fault & they both spent months in a hospital & yrs recovering. This was a frightful & unfortunate condition whereby Ted did not want to have his leg amputated because, as a pilot, he loved his job of flying & could not be reassured that with a prosthesis, he would ever fly again. According to this article, Ted worked religiously with his doctor to save his leg…to no avail.
After reading this article, I thought to myself, this couldn’t be the T & J that I know. So I continued my search over & over again with no clues of consequence & I gave up for today. We watched the ABC news, Jeopardy & the O’Reilly Factor before, during, & after our dinner of: tuna noodle casserole & a salad.
After the dishes were finished, I got out the telescoping ladder & swept dust & small pieces of limbs off the slides in prep for tomorrow’s travel.
DVR movie tonight: “Men of the Fighting Lady” with Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Louis Calhern, Dewey Martin, Keenan Wynn, Frank Lovejoy, etc. Above-par Korean War actioner, focusing on lives of men on U.S. aircraft carrier. 1954. I liked it…it’s airplanes & flying. Not recommended for sleepy mates.
Lights out: 12:00 midnight
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