1. First posting-on the road

“My five Days as Vikki’s Passenger roadie”

By cousin Cathe Urban

Packed up the remnant of you life,

This ship is about to sail.

But by all mean, in the midst of it all

Lets’ have a garage sale!

As she’s loading up the trailer,

The neighbors start to scuffle,

Vikki yells at them to “knock it off!”

And away they quickly shuffle.

Pack up the car, put the cruise on

Cathe…let’s get the hell outta Tucson.

Two cousins and a U-Hall van,

Drive by day…in the evenings, we’ll land

So Vikki…where we gonna go?

Cut to six hour later,,,hey, we’re in Winslow.

We happened upon a great place “La Posada”

If you’ve never been, perhaps you outta

Great history and a quirky museum,

We felt the ghosts, but didn’t see ‘em.

Let’s head out the second day

Where we goin?….Santa Fe!

Although the cost savings didn’t amount  to a beef,

This was your first senior discount at Georgia O’Keefe.

We set out to find some food,

Jumped into a stranger’s car,

End up eating Italian

In a  hoppin’ piano bar.

She knows ALL the words

Though it’s been many moons,

Cut to my cousin

On stage singin’ show tunes!

We say to the waiter, “Stop taking our bread,

For goodness sake!”

Oh , a phone call comin’ in

“John, I’ll call you on Vikki’s break!”

She thanked the audience

As though she’s won an award

The crowds slowly yawns

“Frankly they’re bored.”

We set out on foot

And now we’re half sauced

We laughed ourselves to tears

And of course we got lost.

We try to read a map at the stop lite,

Car honked, “Vikki where you going?”

As they reply, “Oh, the  Inn..go straight, It’s on the right!”

Up North we head on day three.

Off to Denver to see her dear friend Lee.

We grab a pizza and two bottles of wine

Then go to sleep

Thankful  everything’s fine!

Fill up the tank, $2.44 a gallon

Spend the next seven hours learning Italian.

The trip from Denver was the furthest by far

But we had to go to Omaha to pick up mom’s car.

Stopped for help, don’t know how to backup a trailer,

Girls in the beauty shop were rough as sailors!

Flat tire on the U-haul on the right rear-o

You made the guy blush by calling him you’re hero.

So today was the end of our travels together

Made good time, bumpy roads and great weather.

Being Vikki’s roadie

Was of course never dull

Microwaved burritos, coffee

Wasabi  nuts and red bull.

Knock on wood…

Nothing went “too” wrong.

We even remembered the Glenn Campbell song.

Happy Birthday cousin!

Bottoms up

Ohh…I almost forgot about the “Red solo cup.”

I know that you’ll flourish

Wherever  you go.

Now I say to you

Ciao bello! 

(hope I got that right…me assina)

I love you

Your cousin Cathe.