The Trip Home To Wyoming

The trip home was interesting. I was holding my breath as we went through security in Atlanta with our carry on luggage and checked baggage. The checked baggage had been carefully weighed multiple times on Susan's bathroom scales so we wouldn't be overweight, hopefully. Though the airline scales showed us a couple of pounds over, we still made it without charges over than the regular fee.

As far as the carry on, I had researched with TSA would and would not allow and felt quite confident with our contents. The contents:
- two-three lbs. of green peanuts for boiling;
- one lb. of fresh Georgia peaches;
- 30 pieces of freshly fried, frozen Church's fried chicken;
- 12-13 lbs. of fresh, frozen baby catfish;
- 4 lbs. of frozen fordhooks; and
- 12 frozen Krystal Burgers.

Included in the checked baggage were gifts for my co-workers as well as:
- Sonny's Sweet Barbeque Sauce;
- One jar of Jerry Walker's honey;
- One Southern cookbook with Shirley Alexander's cheese bisquit recipe;
- Two boxes of Moon Pies (one chocolate and one banana);
- 3 cans of RC cola (that's all I could fit in);
- Two bags of Agrirama stoneground cornmeal;
- One bag of Agrirama stoneground grits (couldn't fit the other bag in);
- 75 small bags of Georgia roasted peanuts for the co-workers in the oilfield; and
- other items I can't remember.

The flight went well until after we'd left Dallas when we encountered bad weather outside of Denver. The pilot was forced to turn the plane around and we were diverted to Colorado Springs, CO where we sat for almost 4 hours on the plane.

These pictures show the fun we were having (ha, ha). Joe having fun on the plane. (Yeah, right).

The happy couple wearing our Wyoming t-shirts. Oh, those are cuttings from the gardenia bushes at our old home that I hand-carried all the way.