We headed through the Texas Panhandle, but not before stopping off to meet Georgie who fixed my RV my first time out on. The RV was in need of an oil change and a check of the tires and stuff, this just was the perfect time to do it. I had called ahead of time by a few days, so they were expecting us in the afternoon after lunch.
“Baby man!” Rodney exclaimed when I pulled into their lot. George and Rodney got the RV all looked over, the oil changed and tires inspected. There was a few things they fixed up.
I was able to park the RV next to the shop and plug it in for the night. Then we met George for dinner at his place.
We talked about our travels, Max and I’s relationship and stuff in the community. Eventually we got to the topic about George and coming out to his parents.
“So how did the whole topic of diapers come up that made you come out to your dad?” I asked George
“Well one night he saw this commercial for some show that was having somebody on who liked to wear diapers and be a baby and he said something about it and then you being a big baby man and asked me what I thought about it. I reminded him that you had paid a lot of money for tires, oil change and other work on your RV without blinking about the cost, and we should not judge others when we don’t know them.”
“True” Max chimed in
“He said something about me wearing diaper for pissing the bed, and was surprised I never turned into one. To which I said, what makes you think I didn’t? He brought up the time in middle school he caught me in one, which I said ‘oh that’s the only time you caught me, that’s not the only time it happened.’ Eventually he put two and two together to figure out that was the reason I moved out when I was out of school, still single, have a bedroom in my house that I keep locked.” George said
“So did you come out and tell him, or did he ask if your still wore them?” I asked
“Kind of both, he asked me if I wore them often when I was still at home, and I said not as much as I do since being on my own. Then he wanted to know if I still do and if I was into the baby stuff too, which I said both.” George said. “Oh and he was quite unhappy about it too. I pretty much took off that night and did not come into work the rest of the week.”
“Wow!” I said
“Honestly I was considering not going back, but my mom talked me into it. He don’t say too much, but then again I try not to wear diapers at work either. We kind of agree to disagree on it” George said
We spent about 3 hours there talking back and forth, George has a nice nursery setup and a large wood shop behind his house where he works on other projects. He may even start working on making cribs for other people, but wasn’t sure if he wanted to put that much time into it.
We headed back to the RV that we had left at the garage and the next morning bid George and his parents farewell before heading out after breakfast.
We stopped off in McLean Tx, then Shamrock TX at the U Drop Inn and Tower Conoco station. Then we headed into Oklahoma, stopping at the Oklahoma Route 66 museum, then we drove a bit more before stopping near Arcadia OK. We saw the Round barn right before it closed for the day, and then went and found a place to stop for the night. After getting the RV level and such we took off in the car to go to Pop’s to see the giant soda bottle lit up at night. We left with way too many sugary drinks than neither of us needed, but we’d eventually drink them. We packed them in a way so the bottles would not clank together and break.
I slept so good that night all snuggled up in my crib. I had gotten to the point of using a star projection light at night to go to sleep with, Max is one of those people who is out as soon as his head hits the pillow, I am not.
I am lying awake wondering what my next stops will be, when Max will get tired of being daddy and leave me, will I decide to settle down and stop traveling, if being 24/7 is something that I will do for the rest of my life, or what. Every night it was pretty much the same thoughts as I hugged my teddy bear and drifted off to sleep.
The next morning, we woke up, daddy changed me and we decided to skip making our own breakfast and the inevitable wait for things to cool off and be cleaned up. We both grabbed a cup of coffee and headed further east to Stroud OK.
We found a place to park and entered the Rock Café for some great home cooked breakfast before heading down the road.
We weaved and wound down the roads, stopped at cool places like The Blue Whale, a totem pole park, motorcycle museum, many murals too.
We puttered through Oklahoma, into Kansas and onto Missouri. We made so many stops. Including a night at a drive-in movie, the all too quirky Uranus MO, St. Louis arch before heading north into Illinois.
We spent about 4 more days covering the parts of Route 66 in Illinois. Old restored gas stations, drive-ins, diners, restaurants and museums.
There is no way in hell I am taking a 30 foot RV and tow vehicle into downtown Chicago, we parked about 10 miles away and took the Fiat into the city, took the obligatory end of the route/start of the route photo. We saw the sights of Chicago at the 360 degree view of the John Hancock Tower, and went to Navy Pier. We didn’t stay too long since the cat was in the RV still.
It was cold so after we got things done in Chicago, we headed back south a bit to something warmer near Pontiac, IL.