My navigator Mike from Miami, and directions on Google Maps told me there is an accident with about a 7 min delay on I 40 in Oklahoma City so we started looking for Comfort Inns. Bingo. About 1/2 way through Oklahoma City we spotted a Comfort Inn and a Panera Bread. Good Soup for Susie’s dinner!!!! This morning, Out on the road, we left Amarillo, Tx with Willie Nelson singing, "Angel Flying too Close to the Ground." "Come on angel," I invited, "lets go home!" We saw our first green field east of Amarillo. "Bring your sweet lovin’; bring it on home to me." Ah! Home! I am making a doctor’s appointment because I have to be sure I get cleared from lung and sinus infection and I have to follow up on an aortic aneurism about 4.4cm. Doctor in ER in Kingman said this will be the baseline CT. I got lucky as most people don’t know they have aneurisms until they burst. Follow up in Miami. Thank you Jesus for the CT scan pneumonia. Enjoying the sheer beauty of the American road; breezing along with country music, a big Cross appeared on the horizon and Chuck came to a stop and pulled over. I didn’t move. Head on pillow; feet propped up. I look really sick. This was our first stop this trip and it was a young Texas Highway Patrol Trooper. OOPs. Fortunately Chuck had seen him and was able to slow a little. but not enough. I gave him my best coughing fit and with a sad face, Chuck told him I have pneumonia and we are heading home to Miami having scrapped our Western adventure. Chuck gave him his best Miami, Florida Trooper face and story… and he gave us a warning for something over 75mph… We drove by the big white Cross and I said "Thank You Jesus. We will slow down a little." Indeed we slowed down all the rest of Texas. "St Patrick’s welcomes you to Shamrock Texas!" and we left Texas into Oklahoma. Chisholm Trail crossing reminded me again of the patriarchs who road mules, horses, walked this great land. Thanks cowboys! We drove 257 miles in 5 hours (that’s with several stops.) Nap time! God bless us!
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