This morning at 2am I left my home to drive to Texas to visit my sister. I had asked Mark to go with me but he was fearful to drive that  long distance again since he had gotten a blood clot in his leg the last time that we went and he is still on blood thinners. He said he wished I would fly but I had several items that I wanted to transport out there and it was just better to drive.

I was very cautious today and only stopped for gas or food in very public places and made sure that my purse was across my body and that my car was locked up at all times. I was also very aware of my surroundings.

The total drive was 14 and 1/2 hours. After about 12 hours I was getting really uncomfortable in my seat so when I stopped for gas that last time I took a pillow from my back seat and sat on it for a little bit. After about 30 minutes of sitting on the pillow I felt really uncomfortable again and decided that I just needed to pull over somewhere and get out and do some stretches and movements to get the stiffness out.

I was on the last leg of the journey and there was hardly any safe looking places to stop. Finally, I saw a sign that said picnic area and handicapped accessible so I whipped in there quickly and jumped out of my car and here are some of the moves that I made.

I felt so much better! I hurriedly got back in my car and put the pillow behind my back as my shoulder blades had a bad hurting in them. As I started my engine and started to pull out there was a man in a green Mountaineer pulling a John Deere green trailer that was right on me. At first I didn’t think a thing about it but he never really stopped and when I pulled out he pulled out and followed me for a long distance.

All kinds of crazy thoughts were flying through my head and I was getting scared. I had had such a good day and had made no wrong turns or gotten lost and now this was happening! I began to plan how I might lose this person behind me and then he finally turned off.

As he drove away, I began to analyze the reason he had done that and it just dawned on me and I began to laugh uncontrollably. When I had hurriedly pulled off the road and was waving my arms frantically the man was a Good Samaritan thinking I had some emergency. I had been frailing my arms like I was trying to flag someone over.

I called my sister and said….. Lucille Ball has struck again and when I got to her house she took the above pictures of me so we could demonstrate to all of you.

Be careful where you exercise! Haha!

We both have laughed all afternoon.