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(Editor's note: This post is from an e-mail Maria Russell sent to her friends and family on Sept. 9.)

Now it’s Friday, and we are in a campground in Robertsdale, Alabama. Dave and I don’t really know what we’re going to do next. We’re just taking things day by day. Right now we’re just exhausted; mentally, emotionally and physically. But, all things considered, we’re fine. Thank God we have the camper and a reliable vehicle. We feel like we can go anywhere, and yet we don’t know WHERE to go. Isn’t that an ironic situation for gypsies like us?

We will keep ya’ll posted. Thanks to everyone who have offered us a place to stay … had we known it was this easy to spend a week here and a week there, we might not have plunked down the money to buy a house.

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