The Boomer Chronicles

AAAAHH, waking up in nature! Well, the nature right outside our tinted windows. It’s a gorgeous, sunny day here in Virginia, and there’s a fall tanginess in the air. I wake up, well, not refreshed, but ready to take on this here rig. ‘Rig’ is what REAL RV-ers call their RVs. I’m trying to use the lingo. Gotta fit in. So far, we’ve been the recipients of several sweet Southerners’ hospitality: the two women who checked us into the campground late last night, and Kent, the man who’s working at the gift shop this morning. Then a year-rounder named Jerry came to our rescue today. He left his humongous, Greyhound-bus like vehicle and came down to our little Roadtrek and answered our desperate questions. We felt so relieved to learn more about the water, sewer, propane and electrical systems. Later today we are contacting Vatican City to petition for his sainthood.

SOME RANDOM STUFF Yesterday in a hardware store in Marshall, Virginia, we learned about the Northern Snakehead. It’s a really strange fish that they sometimes catch around here that doesn’t belong in these waters. If you see one, the Snakehead WANTED poster in the hardware store read, “KILL it. Store it on ice” and call the authorities. These freak-of-nature fish can even survive on land and they eat everything they encounter! Nature can be scary. We also picked up a guidebook to bear hunting. We wanted to familiarize ourselves with the rules in case we, you know, get into bear hunting on this trip. I’m picturing a nice skin mounted on my living room wall. Not. We bought a flashlight today (we were kinda screwed last night without one, pulling into our campsite after dark and trying to find the water hookup on the side of the RV). When I’m on vacation, I talk to everyone, and so does my travel companion. I just open up. It ain’t like being Boston, where if you talk to a stranger you receive a chilly glare. By the way, I’m sitting at a picnic table in the woods, the sun poking through the canopy of leafiness, writing this entry. What a way to blog! Check out our new neighborhood below. That’s our rig below.

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