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ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Donnie and Linda are leaving on a little trip tomorrow.  He said, "We depart  for Ft. Davis, El Paso, and Surprise, AZ.  (Surprise is a suburb of Phoenix, where Linda's sister-in-law is retired.)  Should be back around Nov. 1.

Linda is out now buying a new laptop to take on the road, so if she can figure it out, we should remain on-line."

WHY SURPRISE?
I just couldn't rest until I found out why they would name the town "Surprise".  It turns out that Flora Mae (great name) Statler, whose husband was a big real estate developer, named the town and she called it "Surprise" because she said she's be surprised if it ever amounted to anything.

It did, indeed, amount to something.  In 2000 the population of Surprise was 30,848 folks.  By 2010 there were 117,517 people living in Surprise.  And no one would be more surprised than Flora Mae.