Ben and Sue Day 40

Tuesday, october 16, 2007, Day 40

God was so good to us today!  Ben was driving -- we  were about 75 miles south of Shreveport, Louisiana.  Ben wanted to stop at a hotel because in all our camping books we did not find a campground before Shreveport.  I hoped Ben would continue on to Shreveport because it was so close and because it is both costly and inconvenient to stay in a hotel.  So we had a verbal spar about it.  Just about that time  Ben saw a little sign on the Interstate for an RV park at the exit just ahead.  So we pulled in there and there was room for our 5th wheel for the night.  Thank you Jesus!

Again God blessed us in a special way -- one of my Dad's medicines needed to be refilled but was out of refills.  So we called his doctor's nurse about it.  She told us Dad needed blood work before she could refill his prescription.  We asked her if it could wait three weeks till we got home and she was very unhappy about our request but told us she would check with the doctor and let us know.  In the end they did refill it.  Ben did a superb job of making sure Dad had enough medicine before we left -- and a wonderful friend, Lloyd, is visiting Dad each week and giving him his medicine and making sure Dad is well and visiting with him for a while. 

Today was pretty much taken up with driving all day -- from New Orleans to just south of Shreport, Louisiana.  We dwadled for a long time in  the morning and it must have been nearly noon before we ever got on the road.  We continue to have a great trip -- after five weeks we are understanding how we would change some things next time we take a long trip.  One thing I would change is the length of the trip -- two months seems like a very long time with no structure.