Our travels

My wife and I just got back from traveling to visit family members. We spent Thanksgiving with our son and his wife in Denver and then went on to Austin to visit our two sons, their wives, and our six grandchildren. We all got along well and the visitation was memorable. We loved bonding with the grand kids. Nice!
Next year we plan on going out west. Our daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter live in San Diego. If one plans a wintertime visit some place, then San Diego is hard to beat. They call it paradise. It's a beautiful city. We've lived there for about six years of our lives so we know how lovely a place it is.
Anyway...We took off from Kalamazoo, Michigan on Nov. 15th and went via Amtrak to Denver. The ride was smooth and relatively uneventful. After a ten day stay in Colorado, my wife and I traveled via Greyhound to Austin. That was not unusual! Just before we got to Amarillo our bus driver pulled off to the side of the road. It was three o'clock in the morning and there was nothing around, except a police car. Two burly cops boarded our bus and walked past us. They stopped about three seats behind us and began to question a young man. We figured he had some sort of warrant out for him. It turned out that the guy had been walking up and down the aisle of the bus, naked from the waist down. The cops found a couple of prescription drugs on the fellow that didn't belong to him. While they were talking to him a woman across the aisle accused him of stealing her I-pod. Bottom line...they cuffed him and took him away. The rest of the trip into Austin was peaceful compared to that incident. After two months, we boarded a Southwest plane back to Chicago and then hopped aboard the Amtrak back to Kalamazoo. Planes, trains, buses, but no automobiles. Would we do it again? Sure! Why not? Gotta live a little.