Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Old Man Winter

Well, I wish I could say that our third day into our new adventure was as uneventful as the day before, but for those who know me, well, you know I just can’t pass on excitement. When we left New Jersey it was covered in white…when we woke up yesterday it was covered in clear. Yup, ICE. A nice thick coating of clear, painted on the RV, the car, the trees, bushes oh and don’t forget, the steps, the rocks and the door handles. That’s when it happened…o’dark thirty in the morning. We had just woken up and like all good dog owners Lenny was getting ready to take Shiloh for his morning walk. Len knew it was a little icy out, but Shiloh gets so excited. As he bounded down the steps he hit that last one (the outside step) and went down hard. I felt so bad for my little boy. Now he was limping. I knew he wasn’t hurt to bad because he managed to beg for a treat when they came back in. I gave him extra out of pity. After the sun came up, Lenny decided to go to the bathhouse for a shower. Upon his return, he tells me to be careful if I go up there because he fell on the ice and went down on his shoulder. Thank God, nothing was dislocated or broken. Here we thought we had left all that wintry mess behind, but as a friend said, “You didn’t drive far enough south”. I guess not. We listened to the weather report and checked the radar on line. Then a little later, Lenny took a drive out to the main roads to see what condition they were in. We knew if we could get out of there and continue heading south, we would be out of the woods. He came back and said things were fine. Time to stow away all breakables and moveable items, get the cats in their crates and get out of dodge! We got the car hooked up and then slowly made our departure from the campground. As we drove south we saw the ice covered trees. Traffic was moving at a nice rate and we were careful on the bridges in case of black ice. It wasn’t until we were south of Richmond that there was no more ice on the trees. Now I was sure that we would see Mrs. Klein today. The Klein’s and my family go way back. I used to babysit for them, their daughter, Julie, babysat our daughter. Julie was in our wedding and Christina was in hers. It had been years since they had all moved to North Carolina and while we planning on spending a few days at the state park near them, Old Man Winter had delayed our arrival. Now we would only have one evening to spend catching up on old times and new. That’s ok, because we’ll be back in the spring and stay a few days. We decided to meet at the Golden Corral in Cary, NC for dinner. We arrived around 6pm. It was a wonderful evening and it’s always nice to see friends along the way. Lenny asked the manager if we could stay in the parking lot overnight and he said no problem. So here we sit till tomorrow when we have a nice easy drive to South of the Border. Thanks for traveling along with us on The Thomas’ Trails…till next time enjoy the sights along the way.




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