An elderly Houston couple reported missing on Sunday were found safe in Florida, officials said. A spokeswoman with the Harris County Sheriff's Office offered no more information Monday night about how Lorenza Gasca, 73, and her husband, Salomon Gasca, 78, were located. Television station KHOU reported today that the couple took a wrong turn, then drove 524 miles before they were found at a gas station in Pensacola, Fla. An officer who checked on the couple's license plates discovered a Silver Alert had been issued for them. Police then checked the Gascas into a motel, and a daughter was en route to Florida to get the couple, KHOU said. Family members said both of the Gascas take blood pressure medication, and that Lorenza Gasca has Alzheimer's disease. The couple went missing about 1 p.m. Sunday in the 21000 block of Oak Ridge Park in Houston after leaving a family get-together. They were supposed to drive to another relative's home about a mile away but never arrived.
Bravo to this old geezer, bravo. Stubborn as a fucking mule. Brightens my day just a little bit knowing that I have a chance at being the same old awesomely stubborn bastard in my golden years as well.
Make no mistake about it, Salomon Gasca's nagging wife definitely jawed his ear off the entire trip from Houston to Florida. Probably every 10 minutes, " we should stop and get directions," "you're so stubborn," "my mother was right, I should have married a man with a better sense of direction," and on, and on. Did that stop him from driving clear cross half the country until he hit the coast of Florida? Nope. Probably would have just gassed up and turned back the other way too if the cops hadn't intervened. I can picture his response to his wife now, "relax woman, I told you gas was cheaper on this side of the country."
