I have absolutely no reason to start this blog with this picture except that I'm hungry and it's the first picture I took on our recent trip to Tennessee to see sons, Jack and Joe, daughter-in-law Allison and Joe's fiance, Sharon.
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| Sunny Side Dinner/Weatherford, TX |
Covid-19 be damned! Teresa and I recently mustarded the gumption to get WAY out of our comfort zone and head east to Nashville. I think we're probably the minority, but we take C-19 very seriously. We take it so seriously that we drove 30-hours round trip vs flying. It's very safe to say that we do not believe that Covid will end on November 3rd.
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| Sharon, Joe, Jack & Allison/Nashville,TN |
Covid's interrupted more of our family gatherings than we can count. Joe and Sharon had to postpone their April wedding until November, we had to delay a scheduled trip to Tennessee not once, but twice, we missed our granddaughter's third birthday, we didn't go to Teresa's son Cody's 34th birthda party, Easter didn't happen with family like it's supposed to, Joe and Sharon's west Texas visit disappeared and my niece's college admission and all that excitement came and went.
We take Covid seriously, but we finally came to a potentially deadly decision and we don't take it lightly.
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| Missed Opportunities |
Our conversation to risk exposing ourselves to Covid went something like this:
Teresa: "This is terrible. We're missing life with our kids."
Me: "I know. What should we do?"
Teresa: "What do you think we should do? We're gonna die somehow-some way. I offer dying by covid is worth it IF it means seeing our kids."
Bill: "I'm good with that."
So, Covid be damned we're seeing our kids.
With that said, we drove 30-hours round trip to see Jack, Joe, Allison and Sharon in Nashville and it was worth every tick on the thermometer even if we came across some very sad, but true circumstances.
Sad Stories/Nashville, TN
See the lady driving in this picture? That's our Lyft driver. She's normally a full time employee at the Gaylord Nashville. It's a huge place with hundreds of rooms, dozens of conference quarters and at least a dozen restaurants too. But there's a reason she's driving a Lyft.
Teresa: "So you work at the Gaylord? What's that like right know?"
Driver: "Slow."
Teresa: "How slow?"
Driver: "We're at two percent."
If you don't think Covid-19 is real, you really gotta get out town. Whole conference centers are still mostly closed. There's not a McDonalds between Snyder, Texas and Nashville open for a clean bathroom stop. A popular tourist area in downtown Little Rock called the RiverMarket is like a ghost town. It's very real and you're fooling yourself if you think November 3rd is the answer.
Puckett's Market & Restaurant/Franklin, TN
Here's another good example of the terrible effect Covid's having. The above photo is from Puckett's Market & Restaurant in Franklin, Tennessee, arguably the quaintest city in the south. Normally, Puckett's would be wall to wall people with a line outside. Not this visit. We had our table. There was another behind us and only a few more. That's all. It was very sad.
Royse City, Texas
But what's a trip without some crazy stuff too and by that I mean Buc-ee's. Oh my. What a place. We stopped at the new one in Royse City, east of Dallas. 
Buc-ee's/Royse City, Texas
We got some treasures, drooled over the donuts and kalaches, picked over the sweet smelling pecans and cashews and we used their amazing restrooms. Have you ever seen so many urinals. If you're ever on the road and need a potty.... Don't pass up a Buc-ee's.
Random Thought of the Day: It really hurts my heart the division that exists in country these days. November 3rd will not be a Silver Bullet because Covid is real.
Gracie update: She stayed with her friends at Klip n' K-9s in Snyder and we're told she loved every minute of it.
Bill Robertson (9/28/20,) Jack, Joe, Allison and Sharon all looked GREAT!
Here's a not so chronological list of our fun.
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