Well a lot has happened in the last few weeks...
First off I moved out of Great Lakes and headed home for a week of leave, trip went well my mom and little brother came up on a train and then road back home with me in my 'new' car, thankfully the car's neutral safety switch waited to short out after I got home... Well had a nice visit at home, which was to short, as always ><
I left home and headed south in an epic quest to see my Suki once more, after having been a part from her for over a year, I've missed her so much. On the way down my car developed fuel problems, in that it would chock out of fuel and die just under a hundred miles of travel...
So made for a very long and tedious trip as some times there wasn't an exit around when the car decided to die, but after 13.5 hours and over 700 miles of travel I arrived at my hotel, tried and dirty. After a shower I pulled out my dress whites and much to my horror I discovered that I'd left my ribbons and neckerchief back home >< Thankfully I had a spare neckerchief in the bottom of my sea-bag, so I wasn't fully out of uniform when I left the hotel and headed for my beloved's house. I was getting so excited and nervous about seeing her once more, the closer I got the more it seemed like being in a dream, stared to round the last corner with only a few more feet to go... and the back tires slide off into the loose sand, sinking up to about the axles <<; So after a very embracing phone call to Suki, her bother, dad, and mom all came out to help push the car out, it too the help of there neighbor and his truck to get my car out >< So finally back on the road I pull in to my beloved's house and see her for the first time in over a year, a year and three months to be more precise. She was the image of an angle standing there in her black dress in front of her place. I got out of the car and hug her tight and was so hard no to cry right there, as I was so over joyed to have her in my arms once more.
After a brief visit with her family, and being threatened by her mother, we set off on our 'date', first she took me to her work and introduced me to a few of her co-workers, after witch we traveled to a local hookah bar were I tried my first shisha, which I found most interesting though what I fell in love with there was there Chai tea, we set the for several hours an in that time I drank the whole pot of tea, as Suki smoked the hookah. After the bar we headed back to the hotel were I had her close her eyes while I brought her into the room and prepared it. Had candles set up around the room with a box of incense burning in amongst them, and on the bed a large dancing fan with a 'build-a-bear' grey wolf in a naval dress white out fit.
The time spend with my beloved seem to pass to quickly, as it seemed I'd only just arrived when it was time to leave once more... it was so hard to leave for a second time... I tried my hardest not to cry in front of her, but the moment she disappeared in my rear view mirror once again... I cried, and keep crying for some time before managing to sniff back the tears... Crystal (my car) helped get me over my crying as well, for not to far down the road she started acting up and left me sitting on the side of it for a time, after a good sit and a few tweaks to the fuel rods she was up and running once more. It was a longer and more troublesome drive from Suki's to my new command, Crystal seem to be as up set as I was about leaving, as she kept breaking down, but finally after 14 hours a driving we made it just over the Virginia state line and we both decided we'd been on the road long enough so we pulled off and found a little motel to stay the night in.
The next morning after a shower and shave we finished the trip and got all checked into the new base, its so much better then the last one, as they treat you as an adult here, which is something I've not experienced in over a year.... Great Lakes truly was a horrible place to have lived at for more then a year...