After Christmas, we left the Kansas City area to continue our marathon car road trip. We drove six more hours in order to spend time with Mark's Mother in the panhandle of Oklahoma. That also allowed us time with nieces and nephews, and all of Mark's brothers and sister and their spouses. We are lucky in that we spent one evening with all of Mark's siblings and his Mother; then the next morning we drove four hours more to Oklahoma City to spend some time with both of Denisa's sisters and spouses and her Mother. We love the holidays that bring our families together! Of course we forgot to take pictures of both groups!
We spent New Year's Eve at dinner with our youngest son and daughter-in-law and her parents, followed by a night watching the Oklahoma City Thunder game and playing cards. We were barely awake at midnight, because we knew we had to be up early on New Year's morning. That's because we were making the long, long drive back to the Rio Grande Valley in one day. Along with Denisa's Mother, we planned to leave Oklahoma City at 7 a.m. It's characteristic of her family that we were actually on the road at 6:40 a.m.--twenty minutes early!
We found that January 1st is a great day to travel the busy interstate. We drove down I-35 through Dallas, Waco, Austin, and San Antonio with no traffic delays. That might be a record! We were road weary when we pulled into our RV home that evening. We have traveled 2,485 miles in the last eleven days. That's around 40 hours in the car--certainly a faster pace than our usual motor home wanderings that we prefer. But we can't imagine missing the time with family during the Christmas holidays. So we'll end this road-weary blog with a few last pictures of the reason that we made such a long drive. Happy New Year 2020! May God Bless you in this new year!
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