Blessed are the flexible for they shall not get bent out of shape. DT
Today I certainly had to be flexible. We finished our stay in Illinois with a good swim and packing up to leave by noon. We couldn’t be to my cousin’s house in Ohio until 6. So I thought if we leave at noon we will have 6 hours to get there. I figured on traffic in Indianapolis. There is always traffic in Indianapolis… so I pulled out of our hotel with confidence that we could make it by 6 and have several hours to play and visit my cousin’s before bedtime. We ran into several areas of road work where we had to slow down to 60 or 55 but for the most part we were moving along nicely. We entered Indianapolis and I saw a roadwork sign that read expect slow traffic all lanes 465 north. No problem I planned on this. So when the GPS took me on 65 south and it said local traffic only I was a little worried but hopeful I could get on I-70 before the road was closed. I was wrong. I had to exit and it was very busy because everyone had to exit there. My GPS was still trying to take me on the closed road. I saw a convenience store and decided to ask if they could tell me how I should get to I-70.
As I parked I saw only African American people . Now I’m not racist at all and I don’t want this to sound racist but when everyone is staring at you and all the people at the gas pump are African American and all your little white children your ushering around stand out, you definitely feel a little unsettled not to mention the bullet proof glass in front of the counter your just a little more cautious. I spoke with a nice lady who told me the road I should take them ushered my children to my really expensive car. I must have looked really out of place with the fold up running boards on my car. A nice man came up to me and asked for 65 cents. So I gave him a dollar and he went on his way. I decided to turn off my GPS and use my brain, also pray for God’s direction and we made it out.
We arrived an hour and 45 minutes later than expected (I never factored in the time change) but we got to play outside running around wrestling in the grass enjoying the running time thanks to my cousin. The boys also found a box of her husband’s legos which put them in 7th heaven.
We get back on the road to travel our last leg and hopefully get to go right to the camp ground for 10 days of camping starting tomorrow.
Signing off from one woman to another.
Jenny Ren.