Saskia and Richard's RVing Adventures

So our plan to move north to Canada was scuppered by the elements.  We left Gettysburg PA after a week of cold rain and moved on to western New York State with little hope of getting any warmer weather.  I decided to contact my friend Karen whom we had intended to visit at their cottage retreat two hundred miles north of Toronto.  Snow was still a possibility up there, with night time temperatures around freezing, so I proposed that instead of towing our trusty trailer The Jet with us, we would leave it out to pasture in the green field it was currently sinking its tyres into, and just drive our truck Benny 200 miles to Toronto where Karen and her partner Dave have a house.  As we couldn’t leave the Jet for too long, we decided that a long weekend instead of the two weeks we had planned would have to suffice for this year’s visit.  The cold was seeping into my husband Richard’s and my bones and we intended not to out-wait the weather but head south and west to ...

Over the last two months of our RVing tour of the US, we have spent most of it learning about the history of the formation of the United States of America, in Virginia, viewing historical landmarks in the capital city of Washington, considering the impact of the battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, and it has been fascinating.   The rest of the time we were involved in the prenuptial activities and the wedding of my husband’s son.  My mother suffered an “evil” stepmother, so I have always had an issue with calling myself the “stepmother” of Steven, the groom, and his brother Mike, his best man.  Besides, their mom is alive and very much a part of their lives, so they have never had any need of a second mother.  If you are divorced, and remarried, you might understand how complicated past, present and future family relationships can turn out to be, and how painful it is to meet up with estranged first spouses and put on brave faces for the sake of a chi...