The Last Three Weeks

I am in Indianapolis waiting to get a new trainer. After two weeks with my old trainer who was unsafe, abusive, disrepectful to everyone and everything, crude, rude, and just plain not nice -- and he had dandruff -- I decided to call my Student District Manager and ask for a new trainer. When she heard some of my experiences, she asked me to go to Indianapolis and write a report for the Safety Department. She thinks he is going to be fired. That will teach others not to be a jerk and have dandruff at the same time.

I think one of the reasons that the Lord allowed me to be with this guy was because his home area is Chicago. He had three days off at the same time as Kimberly's graduation from Navy boot camp. On Wednesday night, Momma picked me up and we stayed at her hotel room (BIG THANKS to Dieuwke and Valerie for getting Momma out to see Kimberly's graduation, which allowed me to see it too). On Thursday, we fought tremendous traffic and got to the auditorium 5 minutes before the cutoff time. When we arrived, they had us talk to the public relations department. Kimberly was chosen as the Honor Recruit for her division. Momma and I got to sit in a special section and wear name tags. As it turned out however, Kimberly had to do battle stations the day and night before and she had been up for 30 hours. They were afraid that she was going to faint while standing at attention for 1.5 hours during the ceremony, so they had here sit in the bleachers and the award was given to her backup. This was a bummer for Kim but she was the award winner and is declared so on the program and on the internet. As it turned out, two of the thirteen division honor recruits were from Utah.

Momma and I got to spend Thursday and Friday with Kim and Momma is going to Church with Kim before she returns today (Sunday). Thursday was shortened time wise but we drove around, spent time together, and got Kim back by 8:00 PM. Friday, the three of us did a session in the Chicago temple. Afterward, we went to the Grosse Pointe Lighthouse and visited Waukegan, Illinois, birthplace of Jack Benny. We also visited another place but I will refrain from elaborating on this until the end of September. Reasons why will be made plainer at a later day.

Saturday, Momma drove me to Indianapolis to report to Safety but because I forgot to account for the time change, it was closed when we arrived. I will report to Safety tomorrow and will hopefully go out with a new trainer on Monday or Tuesday.

A summary of my travels up to here.

Jonathan and I took a Greyhound Ride from Purgatory on August 15-16 from Ogden to Las Vegas to Pheonix, a total of 750 miles.

On August 20-21, Jonathan and I drove rental cars from Phoenix to Dallas, a total of 1075 miles. Here, Jonathan and I parted company.

On August 22-24, I went from Dallas, TX to Atlanta, GA -- 800 miles.

On August 27, I went from Atlanta, GA to London, KY -- 300 miles.

On August 29, I went from London, KY to Troy, OH to Rochelle/Sycamore, IL -- 625 miles

On August 31-September 1, I went from Rochelle, IL to New Paris, OH to Louisville, KY -- 525 miles.

On September 2, I went from Louisville, KY to Newbern, TN to Jackson, TN to Newbern, TN to Sycamore, IL -- 925 miles

On September 3-4, Momma and I drove around Chicago about 200 miles.

On September 5, Momma drove me to Indianapolis -- 200 miles.

This gives a total of 5400 miles for this post, with a grand total of 10,650 miles.