Arrival in Tyler

We left Livingston this morning after a very restful and enjoyable stay of nine days with no sightseeing beyond going to the library. We were glad to be "home" and really surprised that it had been 17 months since our last visit.

Our journey today was through the East Texas woods and small towns like Diboll and Alto that I remember from my years in Nacogdoches. We traveled north on Highway 69, which is a high speed four lane highway for most of the distance to Tyler, but is not limited access. We stopped just past Alto at a nice picnic area and ate lunch outside, enjoying the sunshine and mild weather.


After arriving at Tyler State Park and setting up, we headed over to Dick and Carol's house for a happy reunion and homemade pizza. Debbie's daughter, Christine, was there already, and Debbie stopped by later for a visit with Robbie on her way to Messiah practice. Robbie stayed and entertained us all.

We played some Boggle, and Christine held her own quite well. She is allowed to use 3-letter words, but found several longer words too. She is really growing up.

Our mail and package were waiting for us, and Ken could hardly wait to see his new Droid, but he did hold off on activating it, waiting until we could both do it together.

Activating our Droids turned out to be rather frustrating, since the signal at the park is not too strong. Ken was able to get his activated, but activation failed numerous times on mine, and then the screen went blank just after the advice to dial customer service from a landline. Maybe tomorrow.