Anxious to get out of Michigan!

We were supposed to leave on Monday September 26, but I got a call from Mel saying he was still waiting to get his car fixed, compliments of a “grant” from the local Veterans committee.

When I arrived in Mt Pleasant on Tuesday morning, I was surprised to find Mel’s apartment still in disarray. I guess I expected it would look like my house did when I left Bellaire, empty and clean, but it was far from it, so much that I wasn’t really sure what he was taking, and wondering just how I was going to get it into my car!

But he assured me his ex wife and daughters were coming to clean things up after we left, taking just his luggage and other essentials, so I commenced packing the car, including the canvas top carrier, which I expertly packed …

I sure wish I had taken a picture! My Dad Arnie, who taught me how to pack a car for a vacation would have been so proud of me! There was not ONE INCH of unused space in the trunk, on the roof, or inside the car for anything else..

I felt like Mr Haney from Green Acres, with his vehicle piled to the top, driving by to see if Mr Douglas wanted to buy any of my “junk”!

I also made a phone call to Sylvia, whom my friend Mark Squires, in Michigan had tried to set me up with earlier in the summer. He had described her to me then… blonde hair, blue eyes, slender, fun personality, etc, and I had told him that she sounded like someone I would be interested in, but things did not work out for us to meet while we both were still in Michigan.

Later, when making my plans to move west, I found out that she was also moving out there to be closer to her daughters, and I decided to call her to see if she wanted to meet me in Utah and go to an LDS Singles Dance together…turns out that call would later change my “destiny”…