Art- thanks : )
Scarlet- we drove from Houston to Illinois and spent time with my sister and family there, then took my sister with us and drove to my other sisters in PA (near Philadelphia) and spend a day there , then got her and her niece on the road with us too and drove up to our dad's house in upstate NY- just below the Adirondacks and had Thanksgivine and spent the weekend all together up there..lost of cousins came by and gave me a surprise birthday party and then drove everyone back home and headed back to Texas. We went thru the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky Horse country..was a beautiful drive. Not a speck of snow all the way, but today it is snowing in Houston of all places

Dan- my birthday gift was a Taylor guitar