• Avant Retirees Visit Northeast

    Day 34/35 Kansas City, MO - Tyler, TX

    July 30, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 77 °F

    634 miles
    Total Miles 6960

    Monday was a day we spent visiting the folks at the Avant home office. We had several goals. We needed to visit with Teresa and finalize the enrollment of Medicare and the supplement. She answered some additional questions and clarified some items. We also wanted to visit what Lori O’day about the upcoming Homecoming event in September. Lori wasn’t feeling too good, so we’ll get with her another time. Then Phil wanted to visit with us about the Board meetings in Guatemala in October. While visiting with Teresa, we found out that she’ll be attending also. We urged her and her husband to come down a few days early.

    I texted Ellen early in the morning and suggested that they drop by the Avant office and they could use the bathrooms and the kids could play on the swing set. The Rosenberger were driving from Illinois to Colorado and Kansas City is right on the way. Ellen texted immediately and said they would be arriving at 9:25 and could stay a few minutes. Wow, what a special treat to see the grandkids again.

    Monday night, Glenn and I ate dinner at 54th Street Restaurant in Zona Rosa. We normally eat there with Scott and Alicia, but they were out of town. We watched a little of the summer Olympics then packed up for our early morning departure for Dallas and Tyler.

    I woke up especially early on Tuesday morning. We left around 4:30am. This time we drove down 69 and 75, instead of my preferred I-35 through OKC. We ate breakfast in the RAV4. We mailed some Birthday and Anniversary cards. We even drove by the diner where were stopped in 2019 on the Conversation Coast to Coast. Glenn did most of the driving. I drove about 1.5 hours.

    We stopped at the Texas Roadside Welcome Center to pick up at TEXAS map for G’daddy and also had our normal tunafish and cheese sandwich with apple sauce and leftover popcorn and chips and carrots. We are down to the bare-bones in our picnic bag. A good thing.

    We stopped to see Ronnie and Kelly in Sherman. Visited about 1/2 hour. Then we continued to Dallas to see G’daddy. He had a sandwich and salad for us. Again we visited for 1/2 hour and continued our way. We’re on our final leg    Read more