Mary was so care free. Little did she know the adventure that awaited her. After we left Sid we traveled on for a while. We got some food at a grocery and stopped at a roadside park to eat. They had some swings and beautiful scenery. We were there for a while and went on. After traveling for a while Mary screamed something. I could not understand what she was saying. I could only imagine that she had another spider in her hair and she could hear it chewing her hair. (that's another story). I pulled over to the side of the road and Mary explained that her purse was gone. We looked through everything and finally determined that when she got into the car at the park, she had placed her purse on the top of the car. She got distracted and then forgot to get it. We went back to the park and looked around and did not find it. We then drove slowly back along the route we had followed and still found nothing.

Mary's purse had our extra cash and of course all of her ID. She also had our emergency funds in the form of travelers checks. I think that was about $300 that we had only for emergency. For something like if someone fell into the ocean or something. Credit cards were not so common so she probably didn't have any of those. The main thing we were concerned about was her birth control pills.

We decided that we were not going to find the purse so we went into a town that was nearby. We went to a doctor's office and explained the situation to him. He looked at us and decided that he liked our story. He said he didn't know if our story was true or not but it was fun to hear. So he gave us a refill of birth control pills.

We were on our way and didn't need anything that had been in the purse. It did cut our trip short because we didn't have the cash cushion in case of emergency. When we got home, the purse was waiting for us. Someone had found it along the highway or at the park and sent it back. That was a very nice thing to do. They kept the cash but everything else was there including the emergency funds and IDs.