23 August 2009

Hi All: We are at the Timber Trail Campground in Mulberry Grove, Illinois. It's 50 miles from St. Louis. WE have one more day tomorrow to go till we are in Branson, MO. We are here just for the night. Turned on the satellite dish and my box would load data to 10% and stop. Just like it did yesterday. I did all I knew how to do to fix it and nothing worked. I even called DirecTV and talked to Mike who said he has never had a problem like this either. He said they would send me a new box, but it would have to go to my home address, and that would not help us out on this trip. SOOOO, I guess I have to find a Best Buy or SAMS or some place to buy a new receiver box, then call Directv again and have it activated. Will things never stop working for us?? hee hee.

We went to the Air Force Museum yesterday and spent the whole day walking around looking at hundreds of air planes. Amy says she is clean full of Air Planes. Never wants to see another one. We did get to go in to 4 of the Presidential Air Force One's. Roosavelts, Trumans, Eisenhowers, and Kennedy's. Saw a bunch of R&D aircraft that they built, but never put in to action, and about every plane the Air Force ever had or has. It was a super super place, and the cost was right down my alley. $0.00 Nada, Zip Nothing. It was worth every cent... Ken, you would have had a ball walking around looking at those things....

Well, I just downloaded some photo's. Seems like my Verizon Internet thing works here OK. A pictue of an old helicpoter. Probably one that Ken flew, and my brother Jack worked on?? hee hee. Another of Amy coming out of one of the Presidential Planes, Me trying to start one, and a picture of the Russian "Redeye Missle" It is called SA-7 Grail. I was the director of the Marine
Corps Redeye Missile School, so it was interesting to see the Russian version of it. Donnie would be interested in this too. Ken too, as he was always concerned about seeing one in the air when he Flew in Viet Nam...

Well, better get this published before something else breaks..

Semper Fi.

Don, Amy & Pharaoh.