^%$#! Details!

So we're leaving a day late. But I think Sunday will be a launch. Bev Hale time on the way back, and I hope dessert, if not dinner & dessert, with Peg Kerr!

And 1MG as a traveling companion. Here's hoping it's smooth going!

Safe...

Is a relative word. We have made it from Austin to Oklahoma City, where BevHale and MM have fed us chicken parmesan, salad and homemade sourdough bread, with flourless brownies to finish. This is good.

The bad? Well, the Oklahoma City street department tore up the bridge we were going to use to get to our destination, so of course we went on to the next place to turn over/under I44. Instead of finding a two-way access road on the other side, we quickly were on a deteriorating macadam road, then potholes big enough to swallow the van, then dirt, then dirt and pits....petering out to a shack with a For Rent sign. In the dark.

Immediately, I thought: "If you had seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you'd know what NOT to do." Then I told 1MinnesotaGirl: "I'm going to try not to get us killed." And proved that I could spin an unfamiliar vehicle on a dime and beat a path out of there...despite the gas needle heading toward zero.

And I was so hoping for an uneventful trip! ;^)

THEN -- Bev promptly pulled out this gorgeous web site with handmade Chinese jackets and dresses, and Japanese kimonos, and way too many tempting things. Clearly, saving money toward something new for World Fantasy is the order of the day.

1MG has crashed, and I too must make an attempt to get some sleep. It's 800 miles to Stillwater, MN, so we will try to swap off driving. (1MG goes first -- I drove today, because she needed a day to veg.)

Pleasant dreams, all --