Aug 9 - Trip to MN - Nothing's as Good as Good Friends

I'm the luckiest girl in the world today. I got proof that old friends can remain real friends, no matter how far in time or place.

First I met Lauren bright and early for a breakfast at the Hudson truck stop, followed by an in-depth tour of both the truck stop shop AND Fleet Farm. Heh heh, there are no t-shirts like Fleet Farm t-shirts. It's good to be back. Ah the Midwest!

Then with a newly-purchased truckers' cassette tape of old soul tunes playing on the Volvo tape deck we rolled down to the Hudson waterfront, where we roamed out on the jetty, stuck our feet in the water no less than three times, saw geese and laughed alot. Following that we went to Pioneer Park on the Stillwater waterfront, then got root beer floats at Brines.

I was home for no more than 30 minutes after that, when the phone rang and it was Britt. She's not coming home for the reunion but she wanted to give me a call, since it's the first time in 2 years that we don't have a 12-hour time difference between us. We talked for at least 2 1/2 hours! Dang, it was so good.

So in one day my two most important and far-flung friends weren't so far at all. It's easy to write about things that aren't very important, but words often seem to fail those things that are the most important. So I'm not going to ruin the moment with too many words.

Just simply, Lauren, Britt....thanks for a really good day.