RT has his own small airplane, and today we put it to good use. I wanted to go visit my mother in Georgia, but it’s a three and a half hour drive. I had bought her a wireless laptop computer for Christmas, but it didn’t arrive in time for Christmas. Of course, it arrived the very day AFTER I got back home from my trip to visit my mother a few days after Christmas. So another trip was in order. I wanted to drive down and then come back today. I couldn’t stay but a little while because I have a couple appointments for tomorrow that I can’t miss.

RT said he’d fly me there. It had been over a month since he’s flown the plane, and it needed to be flown. So around 12:30, RT and I took off in his airplane - landed in my mother’s town an hour later. My sister, Debi, and her son, Jonathan, picked us up and drove us to my mother’s. Jonathan - a sophomore in college who is very adept with the inner workings of a computer and who had promised to set up the wireless connection for Mother - started working on getting the laptop and printer set up. RT and I, Debi and my mother visited for about 45 minutes. Then, we asked Debi to drive us back to the airport. First, though, I had RT snap a photo of me with Debi and Mother.

Carol, Ruth, Debi

We landed back in Nashville at 4:00. In the time it would have taken me to drive to my mother’s house (three and a half hours) we flew there, visited and flew back home.

Ahhhhhh. Very nice.

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