For some reason that song just came up in my head to put up as the title of this post. We weren’t robbed…and the only tramp would be on our DVD of Lady and the Tramp…but we have been moving around from place to place like Gypsies.

Here we are in beautiful Topeka KS! YAY! It has been a long day of traveling. We are at location 3 of our 4 location vacation. Travel today went well but it was a long day.

Things started off with me doing a mad repacking of items at 7 am EST trying to get everything together. It amazes me because I started off packing yesterday and I thought that I had done a better job on getting everything together. Oh how wrong I was. We actually packed up three boxes of stuff to ship home from Hilton Head. It isn’t that we bought so much stuff while we have been traveling…it is just that once our suitcases exploded in the hotel room in Florida, we could not pack it all back in the way it was. Well I added a fourth box of just MY stuff this morning to ship home. (Lindsay we actually put your address on the boxes so expect at least 4 boxes from UPS from HH). When we checked in at the airport in Hilton Head our bags were still over weight even though we are sending 4 boxes of stuff home through UPS and I had taken out my antique camera from my luggage to have it as a carry on. Well we got lucky with our weights as we were flying first class (you are allowed up to 75lbs per bag I think….well at least up to 55lbs with no charge).

OK so we made it to the Charlotte airport no problem and as we were on the moving sidewalk, going between gates on our 2 hour layover, Mrs Honey sees a Harley gift shop. I got antsy and started making all sorts of noises cause I wanted to go over and look but the moving sidewalk was taking me AWAY from the store! Mrs Honey reminded me that we can walk back to it and that it will still be there. I guess once a kid always a kid rings true for me huh? So I bought three shirts at the Harley shop there in the airport because they actually had shirts that fit me! (Big burley biker that I am). Well while I was basking in that post consumerism glow, Mrs Honey asked “Where are you going to put those? We both already have two carry on items…” Well it wasn’t a total buzz kill when she asked that as I sprouted a great idea for carrying on the shirts because I had room ON a bag (not IN mind you). Well we got that sorted out and got on the plane to KCI.

No issues getting to KCI. Mrs Honey actually caught some shut eye during the 2 hour flight. We did have to fly around a little extra on the way to KCI as the pilot wanted to avoid some weather and make it a smoother flight. The flight was fine for us so the pilot must have missed the weather. We gathered our bags at KCI and headed off to the car rental mega-tropolis to get our car. Mrs Honey chose a car with a Miss GPS unit in it. Miss GPS is our affectionate name for the GPS units after using one in Houston getting to MD Anderson. The voice on all the units we have used have been set by default (or by the previous user) to use the female voice when the unit tells you how far the next turn is, when to turn, or when you have missed the turn and she needs to recalculate the route to get you to the address that you typed in. Let me just say that so far our experience with Miss GPS…wait….MY experience with Miss GPS has not been that stellar. While in Houston I was out till 3 in the morning with Miss GPS trying to find the Walmart address that I had typed in. While on the way from KCI to Topeka I turned when Miss GPS made her little sound to turn and ended up going the wrong direction on I-435 EVEN THOUGH I saw the exit sign that stated the exit would send me in the direction of St. Joseph instead of Topeka. That one I cannot totally blame on Miss GPS as I saw the signs….but….whatever.

We made it in to our hotel here in Topeka (despite Miss GPS sending us around the north end of town instead of the more direct route) and unloaded. Mrs Honey needed some allergy medication as she was unable to find hers in her suitcase (I think that she packed it in one of the boxes to be shipped home…oops). More fun with Miss GPS trying to find a drug store (we found one on our own THANK YOU Miss GPS). At this point I know where I am in town and navigate myself out to dinner at the Aunt and Uncle’s house. Marv started smoking some pork around 10pm last night??? and then also fixed some brisket on his grill today. Lemme tell you something…Marv loves to cook on his grill and I think that he knows what he is doing. If you ask him he will tell you all about the grill and it’s design…he will also go into detail with you about the charcoal he uses and where he gets it. Tonight he also had some BBQ sauce that no one else had opened yet. The pork was spectacular! It was so tender. He brought out the bone from the pork and you could tell that when it was done cooking and he moved it to the serving tray that it just fell off the bone. It was real good.

I got ahead of myself there. We were a little later than everyone expected us to be. Everyone was done eating dinner and some people had already gone off to the kids little league game. Grandma and Grandpa were still there and I think that Grandpa was having seconds on dessert (or maybe thirds). So we had dinner and chatted and hung out for a bit. I picked up a brick from the bookshelf and somehow or another it became my property as Aunt Martha handed it to me and told me to take it home. If you want info about the brick just ask and I will give you the details. Mrs Honey was tired from all of the traveling so we went back to the hotel and unpacked and pulled even more clothes out to send home with Mr Honey’s Dad. Dad was out here visiting his parents and just happened to be here while we were in town. Lucky for us! Mr Honey sent the brick home with Dad along with 4 bags of stuff we pulled from our luggage.

Where the heck did all of this crap come from in our luggage? How did we pack it all in to get it out here in the first place? That my friends just might be a topic for the Coast to Coast AM radio show. It is now getting late and I think that I have dumped enough words out on this post. We will be visiting with family again tomorrow both here in Topeka and then in KC. We will be at our 4th location for this vacation tomorrow night. Sleeps now.