Awake: 7:02am Temp 43 sleep 6+36 windy, overcast overnight @ East Memphis, TN.
Donna calls from Holly Springs, MS.; she invites us for a visit tomorrow & suggests that we leave Germantown before 3:00 pm or we will get bogged down in heavy traffic.
My earlier call to Mike in Everglade City is returned: Mike tells me their living room floor & ceilings are finished & he's now focusing on other rooms in the house. He also spoke to Steve @ FedEx this morning & gave me Steve's phone #. Afterward, I called Steve & left a message.
Kathy called Mary Ann & asked if they got Skype working yet? After a negative answer, Kathy replied, "We're here to help you!" Surprised, Mary Ann wanted to know where we were. They chatted a while & Mary Ann invited us to join them at their church where they are celebrating Seder followed by an American dinner on Wed evening. We accepted.
Then Kathy drove the Suzuki to the Agricenter office & paid our camping fee.
Before 3:00pm, we motored southeast to Holly Springs, MS., stopping in Germantown to deposit some mail. We made another stop @ Booker Hardware in Holly Springs where we got a map of the city, so we can auto tour this town to see the well-preserved antebellum homes & other structures. According to our map, there are some (63) homes of interest right here in the city. Our timing was good leaving East Memphis & Germantown but doing the auto tour during the Holly Springs rush hour was not. We spent about (20) min seeing a dozen beautiful old well-preserved mansions & then found our way to Dale & Donna's place adjacent to the Kirkwood golf course.
It seems longer than one year since we last visited them. According to Donna's records, it was exactly on the same date as last yr. We've done a lot of traveling since then so maybe that blurs the passage of time; for us, it went too fast.
Donna & Dale look good & their new home is so much more organized since last yr. During last yrs visit, they were still just moving in & Donna was in the throes of sorting her mother's things.
We gabbed for hrs, then motored into Holly Springs & had dinner @ J B's Family Restaurant; en route to the restaurant, D & D showed us some more antebellum homes in town while we still had some daylight.
K & I shared a homemade hamburger patty with most of the trimmings & each had a dinner salad; we also each had a small bowl of homemade ice cream for dessert, black walnut for me & orange-chocolate for Kathy.
After returning to their house, we yakked for two more hrs then decided to take timed pictures of ourselves, which was not a quick happening. We finally said our goodbyes & wished each other a "Happy Easter" @11:45 pm. We motored the (46) miles to our campground, arriving @ 12:30 am.
Sadly, we missed a call from Nick while we were at the restaurant.
No movie tonight.
Lights out: 1:39am
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