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Cousin joined me and we finally got them to the right place.

They tended to Skinny Uncle and got him strapped to the stretcher, but left him on the ground instead of loading him in the ambulance. Always on top of things, Engineer Cousin found out that the ambulance was broken and we had to wait for a second ambulance. Par for the course, right?

The second ambulance arrived and loaded Skinny Uncle inside. We generously offered Mechanic Cousin's services before scrambling after the ambulance on its way to the hospital. We left a couple cousins behind to fill in Lawyer Cousin and Mechanic Cousin when they returned and pretty much left them on their own otherwise.

It took several hours and the errant cousins had managed to fix the car and get to the hospital before they told us anything about Skinny Uncle. Lawyer Cousin took charge when the doctor came out to talk to us. The doctor was mostly concerned that Skinny Uncle didn't know where he was. Lawyer Cousin pointed out that we didn't either. The doctor relented. Still, he kept Skinny Uncle in the hospital while we continued on to the Family Reunion.

Being obsessed with maps as I am, I stopped at the Hospital Information desk with Engineer Cousin to figure out how to get back on our route. It was really simple. I took the lead. Except, before we even got out of the parking lot, Lawyer Cousin decided to take another route without telling anyone else. We thought he was getting something from the hospital and would catch up.

After he still hadn't caught us, the three other of our cars pulled into the parking lot of a police station to wait. We were convinced he'd be along at any moment. Engineer Cousin was now riding with me and we called Lawyer Cousin to see where he was. He didn't answer the phone. We called Teacher Cousin who we knew was in the back of the van. She did answer, but couldn't tell us where they were.

Engineer Cousin had my Tablet PC which had the route. He located where we were and from Teacher Cousin's descriptions, we figured out that they'd passed us on a parallel fork in the road awhile back. So after waiting around for about 45 minutes we told them we'd just meet them in Tennessee.

We got another hour or so down the road before Lawyer Cousin called to tell us that they weren't sure which way to turn. They would just wait there for us since I was the only one in all these vehicles to have a mapped route. Sure enough we met up with them and headed on in to Clarksville without further incident.

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