travel rants & glorious reunion

4/2/08

I've discovered my addiction! Suspecting before it had to do with my computer...am now diagnosing it after 4 days with no connections....no wi-fi...no hot spot. My phone is also weak and rarely works.

Not that I complain. Could not do that after an absolutely fabulous week south of Tucson....in Benson. A reunion with a couple I met last year there and adding 3 more couples. Quite a diverse group representing .... Texas ... California .... and our new friends from Canada....Quebec and Ottawa. We blended perfectly with our food, our happy hour, our interests in travel & different cultures.....our pets....Rving.....etc. Now I know I must learn Spanish & French. They spoke so many languages & I didn't. Gotta get that Rosetta Stone program.

















You may remember from my last email I was going to spend 2 weeks here in Yuma, then go to El Golfo, Sonora, Mexico. Didn't do enough research on that plan. Not a good time of year, no snorkeling, water (Sea of Cortez) not good for swimming, no escort to get there....so change in plans. Just don't know what they are yet. Will be back in Santa Cruz for a few weeks in May/June.

As you all know, diesel has gotten so expensive, I'm having to be quite conservative in spending. Am trying to do a new budget and rethink the way I travel....pray that I don't have to go back to work!!!!! That will be my last choice.

Hope you all are doing well....I am.....and am catching up on my reading...

Peace & Joy......pat

...me & Johnny....

February 28, 2007, 6:03 pm

I'm working on being as many places as Johnny Cash has been in his song..."I've Been Everywhere"! I'm loving it all. So far Palm Springs, Lake Havasu City, now Sedona....

Rving is more fun than I ever dreamed and "I've Only Just Begun".

The first week in May I will be at the New Orleans Jazz Festival. Another dream about to come true. A couple of friends may join me there and perhaps my nephew. I originally named my RV - "Phoebe". She now has a full name. "Phoebe McGee" I'm writing a song called....you guessed it....Me and Phoebe McGee....wish I could sing it!

til next time....gypsy mama signing off

exploring...dreaming....discovering

March 18, 2007, 12:30 am

Have you found, as I have, that many of our destinations are different from our intended ones? Each journey has brought its own surprises and challenges and detours and, happily, new sets of friends.

As I make my way along this path, I think with amazement of all the individual journeys that have brought me to this point. This point of such freedom and pleasure and frivolity and adventure................

I've left good friends behind, but not in spirit! I am honored by them as we remain in touch (TG for email). I am honored to count you as my online friends through our RV Scrapbook Club. I know that we will cross paths somewhere in our travels. You all contribute to making my life so much richer.

From Benson, AR, I leave for New Mexico, then Texas, then Louisiana. I sum this blog up with this quote from - Miriam Beard...."Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."

peace to you all.....gypsy mama