And They are Off!

G and Kinz left here at about 5 am yesterday morning. Send off was difficult. Kinz sobbed and I was afraid she was going to say she really didn’t want to go. I was not sure what to do. She then said, “Thanks for letting me go”. Bitter sweet words. They hit the road with everything we could think of. I went inside to get ready for work and found a letter she had written to me in my bathroom. (When I traveled to Sweden I always left each of them with a letter.) B later found one addressed to him and one addressed to G upstairs in the TV room. Smart girl, she knew he would find it there.

G and Kinz made it to G’s friends house in Mobile Alabama last night at round 5 pm. He said they hit horrible traffic in three different states, which put them behind schedule. They had a nice visit with Chris, and hit the road again at 5 am. They stopped for Coffee later in the morning only to find that G had locked his keys in the car. Thank goodness for a wife who made sure he had his current AAA card with him. They were delayed by an hour but then on the road. They arrived in NC at around 5 pm. They hit rain, but Kinz said it smelled so good. She said it was fresh and clean and didn’t smell like mud the way it does in Texas when it rains. She said she thinks they call them the Great Smokey mountains because of the low lying clouds found throughout the mountains. G said it reminded him of the lush tropical jungles of Hawaii. So far, so good.

Check in is at 1pm tomorrow. They encourage the parents to check out the camp and then leave. They said it’s sort of like kids starting Kinder. They longer the parents linger, the harder it is to let go. G is planning on staying close by for a couple of days to camp and ride his mountain bike, but rain is expected. He said sitting in his tent in 50 degree weather with rain does not sound fun. If that is the case, he will head back.