2011 November « 2naluck

Saturday, October 30:

My beautiful and wonderful daughter called me at 2am [Texas time] to tell me we all lost her beautiful, wonderful, kind and brave boyfriend; Finn Finnegan. He suddenly collapsed and died in their hotel room on Kauai during their two week vacation in the Islands. He had been bravely and positively fighting cancer.

I am devastated, we are all devastated. Anyone who knew Finn or Miriam is devastated. My dear husband drove me to the Houston airport, said good-bye, put me on a plane and began his 11 day trip with Worf, Trixie and the towed Puddle Jumper from Texas through New Mexico and Arizona and home to Pacifica, California.

We all miss him and are taking care of Miriam. I will direct you to their blog @ http://finnandmiriam.wordpress.com/

November 14: I am with my sister Nan, brother-in-law George and my dear Miriam in Bodega Bay taking a little break. Mimi is strong, brave and sad. Give her a text, email or call just to check in.

Thursday, October 27:

Vinton, TX, Drove from New Orleans to Texas and stopped at a city park in Vinton, TX. More mosquitoes here than I have seen anywhere and very hungry. Stayed at a city park on a river where fishing is king. There were two pens with some interesting animals, photos follow.

Friday and Saturday, October 28 and 29

Columbus, TX, Nice KOA and an interesting town. There is a lot of Texas history. We did a bit of a walking tour and saw some Civil War monuments, old homes and a nice park on the Colorado River. We also spent some time in the local library and decided we really like doing that and may continue that in our future travels. We just looked at the library’s exhibit [many dolls from pioneer and recent history, kind of spooky]. Then we looked in the stacks, found a book each and read for a while. Very pleasant. Afterwards we did that tour and I found myself in a toystore that was so interesting. Unfortunately, the proprietor was a bit chatty and I was unable to see anything as he found out I was from California and proceeded to lecture on all things wrong with California [read Hollywood] and correct with his Tea Party. Interestingly though, he had also been a professional musician and played with Tito Puente [http://www.last.fm/music/Tito+Puente]. He said he loved the Spanish language, he just didn’t want it to be the official language of the country.

That night we were back in the RV park, had some dinner. I went on a walk with the pooch and we watched another episode of Hop Along Cassidy from the dvd we bought at some store along the way.