Growing with gratitude for life's challenges
North of Toronto, Canada, there is an area of lakes known as Muskoka. Having traveled extensively over the winter, and marvelled at many new and exotic landscapes, we return to the places of our youth with a new appreciation and respect for what we have here at home. Muskoka and the Haliburtons are vacation destinations, […]
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Four-hundred and fifty square feet has defined our living quarters for the past year. Less space when we are on the road with the slides pulled in. Front to back, the motor home is forty-one feet. It is less than half of the size of our former home, which was a considerable downsize from the […]
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It is easy to engage in surroundings when vacationing: all travellers belong, having escaped (even if momentarily) their scripted lives. We project friendliness onto strangers – mothers meeting outside our day-to-day – have new things to discuss. Dare to confess concerns, or approach the personal, and the shunning is immediate. Only peripheral conversations are expected […]
Read MoreThe familiar barren landscape of highway 402 confirms that we are home. It is clear that winter has lingered well past her time, and spring is only beginning to stretch her wings. We have just driven close to 1,000 miles to get here – partly to avoid the approaching storms, and partly pulled by the […]
Read More“How would you sum up Nebraska?” Ric asks me as we’re pulling out of the West Omaha KOA site. “Windy!” “Exhaustion,” is his response. We had committed to staying an extra night because of the winds. Yesterday an alert went out to advise drivers to stay off the roads. A multi-vehicle crash on I-80 was […]
Read MoreTwo goals are motivating us: staying ahead of the worsening weather and getting home. Strong gales announce our arrival in Nebraska. Ric is visibly worn out from trying to keep the rig on the road. We consider abandoning our plans and pull into a Cabela’s, thinking that we will wait out the storm, but the […]
Read MoreThe sign at the first rest area we come to in Wyoming welcomes visitors and suggests that we might want to slow down and enjoy the views that lie ahead. The landscape, it suggests, is much the same as it was in the time of early settlers – an untamed mecca for wildlife. Having never […]
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“Let’s get this day started!” Ric calls from his chair. I am lingering in bed, body not wanting to move, but we are only in Utah for one day of exploration, so I’d best push myself. Following the advice of our hosts at the RV park, we take a drive up to Snow Station, where […]
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At 4:00 a.m we are both wide awake, so we decide to get up, have a leisurely breakfast and hit the road early. Today we are driving to Utah, having spent the night in Idaho. My fibromyalgia is flaring up. Not sure if it is long periods of sitting, or the over stimulation of passing […]
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We both slept in, so our getaway this time was rushed and I am trying to write from the road, catching up on both blogs and sorting through photographs, with a wi-fi that keeps kicking me out. So bear with me. We are driving through Oregon today, and like Washington State, I am impressed by […]
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One Woman's Quest II 