Randy was enjoying life in his 50's.

His marriage was good, the kids were grown, and the dogs had stopped chewing up the TV remote years ago. Everything was running nice and smooth until it wasn't.

A thousand miles away, Randy's mother Barb was experiencing issues with her memory. When the issues turned into problems, it was time to act.

On a moment's notice, Randy had to craft a plan to get Barb from Colorado to Texas so he could get her the care she needed.

That was just the start of it.

Within six weeks of arriving in Texas in her low mileage, 2011 Subaru Outback, Barb's cognitive decline worsened. Randy had no choice but to move his mother into a long term care facility. By the time he got her there, Randy began to wonder if Barb and her fellow residents were preparing to stage a coup d'etat.

From the point Randy got on a plane to go get Barb, to the 12 hour road trip to get her to Texas, to what happened in the months and weeks leading up to the residents' revolt, The Outback Diaries recounts the anticipated and surprise events around his mother's dementia.

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