Traveling update

On this warm & muggy Wednesday night I find myself with the Mrs. in northern Georgia, settled in for the night before the final 5 hours or so to the Talbot family home in northern North Carolina.  A nice 4 day visit awaits with son, daughter-in-law and Calvin, my #1 grandson!  As a grandfather(Pops for short) it is a thrill to anticipate seeing, holding and just getting to know this new young life that stole my heart from day one!

So Calvin is now 7 months old; I last saw him when he was about 3 and a half months old.  Thanks to Skype and copious amounts of pictures I have watched him change and grow from afar.  The Skype thing is really quite amazing.  But there will be nothing like seeing him in person.

For today, when you drive with the Talbots, it would literally drive most of you nuts.  We take our time.  Literally, you could get from our place to their place in 12-13 hours.  All it would take for a one day trip is hit the road around 6 AM and go, go and go.  Well, our go-go got up and went.  We opted today for a 10 AM leave time so we could meet up with our daughter in Hattiesburg, have a nice visit and lunch then off we went; now it's 12:30 in the afternoon!  We did not even hit Atlanta until 7:30 PM.  But settled in we are; getting some rest and we really don't need to leave until 10 AM again to time our arrival for all the Talbots to be home!

So day #1 is in the books; tomorrow is grandparents time and just good times to be with family.

Thanks for the gift of family dear Lord, and for continued traveling mercies!