to the room because it really was crowded.

We both changed into other dresses and hoped that we would not be overdressed nor underdressed for the occasion. It still was raining very hard, so we had to wear our raincoats and carry our heels. We finally entered the room at 10 P.M. I'll not bore you with the details but we did meet quite a number of very nice people. I got grilled by a few wives and I hope that I handled myself in a very nice way. I had brought my picture album along and all seemed to enjoy it. One wife got into the corner with my wife and proceeded to ask quite a bit about me. She said that it was quite obvious that I dressed a great deal. In fact she wanted to know if I spent most of my time in skirts. When my wife told her that I hadn't had a dress on for more than three months, she wouldn't believe it.

I finally couldn't keep my eyes opened any longer and we left at about 3:30 A.M. We were going to leave then, find a roadside park and pull over for the rest of the night, but I looked around and thought that the management wouldn't know that anyone was in the camper and even if they did, I didn't think they would mind if we stayed there. Obviously, they couldn't have given us a room anyway. We took off our dresses, wiped our makeup off and fell into bed in our slips. We got up about 8 A.M. the next morning and put on our traveling dresses again. Maryann and her wife came over to say goodbye and we promised that we would see each other in the near future. I unlocked the cab of the truck and went to start it. Nothing happened. Marky went over and got Maryann. Lucky, I had some booster cables in the camper. Maryann brought her car over and with the cables, got our truck started. It wasn't acting right so I wasn't sure how far we would get. Just two days before we left home, I had had a bigger alternator put in and I thought the garage had done something wrong. I would stop at every large gas station we came to and ask them it they knew what was wrong. I had to keep the motor running all the time because I knew we couldn't get it started again if I turned it off. We finally stopped at a place that had someone who was a little brighter than the average. I told him what I thought was wrong with it. and he told me what he thought was wrong with it. He was right. The battery had a short and it wouldn't charge. He put a new battery in and we went on our way home without any more trouble. Mind you, I was in a dress through it all. Oh,

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