July 27, 1983

Thursday morning July 27, twenty-five years ago started early as we had to head to Savannah, TN to join the Bowlings and Begayes on our push toward Oklahoma City. What a long day that was. Talking about hot, before we got to OKC it was running 104 degrees out with about 90% humidity. Even though the Ryder Truck was a 1983, with only 2,000 miles on it, rental companies had not reached the point of putting air conditioning in them. Nona and I would put ice packs on the kids and us as we drove along I-40 with the windows down and the heat blowing through.

Somewhere along the way we lost the Begaye family, they did not show up in OKC until after the service started. We arrived just in time, for a service with the late Charles Attaway and his people in OKC. Man was supper great afterwards, and the shower even better.

Exhausted we went to bed knowing that the next night we would be sleeping in the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico. Dreaming that twenty-five years later we would still be pillowing our heads in this great state.