Ringing in the New Year

We had a very big day today! We're still at the RV park where my Grandparents wintered, and we have been hosting happy hour every day for all of Grampy's friends. ( Happy Hour comes early here, 3:00)
The guy from the Ocala Newspaper came today to do the story on our trip, and as everyone does, he LOVED my Grampy and stayed for almost 3 hours! (including happy hour) Grampy loved every second of it and was smiling from ear to ear the whole time! They are going to run it Wednesday January 4th as a feature, and feature it on Ocala.com. I am so lucky to have him as my Grandfather. No matter how bad his situation is, he smiles and jokes through it all!
Grampy's buddies have him talked out of going to Key West, it is a 11 hour drive from where we are now, and there are too many "vantrestites" there!!! I think we are going to head up to Orlando, and Cape Canaveral before heading home instead. It has been a fantastic trip. I will remember and treasure this experience forever!

RV Living!

Today was fairly uneventful. Dad fixed some kinks in the motorhome, and mom went to the laundromat. I stayed with Grampy and checked out some WWII Documentary. (I must get my love for Documentaries from him) He hung out all day with his people from the RV park, and Mom and I got a break and got to go get our Hair done at EN.VE Salon in Ocala. I got to be a real live client for once!
Grampy also got a call from the Ocala Star-Banner Newspaper that wants to do a story on his trip. They did a phone interview today and liked the idea so they decided to make it a feature and are going to come tomorrow and interview all of us and take pictures. He is so pumped! I'll fill everyone in and hopefully get a link to the story on here!
So far it has been a great trip, and we're tentatively headed to Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach in the next couple days to celebrate 2012!g Grandma always said even years were lucky, heres to hoping!!!

I thought Jesus was an Irish Fan!

We had a good day today up until kickoff! Dad gave our tickets to the Champs Sports Bowl away so that we could hang with Grampy! No sweat, the Brandon's have been to hundreds of Irish Football games, we'll just watch it on our fabulous direct TV Satalite Dish... No such luck! About 5 minutes before kickoff we lost our signal, and tried to get it back literally the ENTIRE game. We finally turned on the radio and listened to it like people in the olden days. Oh Well, it was probably a good thing since the Irish blew it as usual! Saved my Dad from having a heart attack. After every loss he says he's sick of being an Irish fan. Better Luck Next Year!!!

We Made It!

We're finally here! I drove us from Tallahassee to Ocala, and we pulled into The Springs RV park around 4:00... Just in time for happy hour! Budweiser stock must be plummeting, because my Grampy can't put em back like he used to! He was so happy to see his friends, and a few tears have been shed, but he's glad to be here!! We will be hanging out here for a few days, and then who knows! He wants to see Key West, so that is on the agenda!! All I know is my Dad and I are going to watch the Irish pound the Florida State Seminoles tomorrow!! GO IRISH!!

Are we there yet??

Day 2 is winding down! We're Tallahassee bound for a little hotel R&R. We drove through Tennessee and Alabama today, and the tip top of the pan handle. Tomorrow we will reach our first destination, beautiful Silver Springs, Florida where Grampy and Grandma used to winter before Grmpy got sick. All his buddies are waiting on him to go to Hooters and flirt with the waitresses! He's traveling well and said "besides Joe Brandon riding the rumble strips, it's just like home!" We learned (the hard way) that Truck Stops and Rest Areas must be an Indiana thing! Hip -Hip Horray for Flying J's!

Leaving the Tuck

We didn't quite make it to Birmingham, only to Bowling Green, Kentucky. It's raining cats and dogs and blowing our big rig all over the road! We spent the night in a Wal-Mart parking lot (yes, we're the people of Wal-Mart now) but thank God we did because when we tried to fire up "Renee XL" her battery was dead. (you would think the CEO of an RV power supply company wouldn't have these problems, but they're real people too) So, Joe kept his cool and ran in to get a battery jumper thingy and we're on the road again! 11 hours to Ocala, and hopefully that's our next stop! Godspeed!

We made it out of the Hoosier State

We made it to Louisville!!! Still trucking thanks to our fearless driver! Trying to make it to Birmingham tonight! We shall see!

And we are off

Sorta! In typical Brandon fashion, things got off to a late start. We're locked and loaded and on our way out of town!