Leaving Tampa Supershow and Florida State Fairgrounds

While a number of folks left on Saturday from the Newmar Kountry Klub (NKK) rally, we stayed until Sunday as our next campground reservation was to begin on Sunday. The weather was threatening rain on Saturday but it really did not rain much - a little sprinkle - for which we were thankful as we were parked on grass and not certain what difference rain might make to the surface. 

We got to visit with a number of NKK folks on the last day. We were "show'd out" (not interested in going to see anything more at the Supershow), and could not check into our next campground until 1pm on Sunday and it was only about 5 miles away from the fairgrounds, so not much driving time! We met a number of folks that we look forward to meeting up with again in the future... that is... if we remember... which brings up a funny story.

We were talking with a couple in the tent one evening and in the process told them "our story". When people ask where we live (fulltime in the RV) and then follow up with "well, where did you live before?" - the question gets complicated with me having lived in Texas and Carl in northern Illinois. So it prompts us telling the story of how we met at Quartzsite as couples with our late spouses, and losing our spouses in 2019, reaching out as we were going through dealing with a life-changing experience, and then marrying in 2020, and how blessed we are that God arranged for us to meet back in 2015 so we would be prepared for what God knew was coming in a few years (and how thankful we are that *we* didn't know what was coming!). The couple with whom we were talking said, "Wow, that's amazing, we met another couple with a very similar story out in Las Vegas a year or more ago..." and we said, "We're probably that couple!" Turned out we had met them and none of us remembered each other (Carl said that Alan looked familiar to him, but didn't remember that we had met before). So... that's why I say "we look forward to meeting up again ... if we remember!"

Today (1/23) is Sue's birthday, so we're remembering her and thinking of her today. It is an emotional day as we are thankful for her and her life and impact on her family and friends.