Mexico redeux 2009-2010
Last year at this time a camping trip across Mexico Eastern part seemed an impossibility. the ice storm, waiting for a vehicle registration, hoping that the church’s large burner would be replaced and overall taking a Sabbatical seemed overwhelming. yet it was a wonderful month of travel and adventures to all parts of Mexico. it was so much fun that it is being repeated this year. in fact after a 10 hour drive getting there in three days seems a real possibility.
getting out of the house at 8:10 am and stopping at 6:10 was a good start. I was disappointed as mile after mile of heading south never seemed to bring an end to snow or to rain. Finally right at the border into West Va the sun shone through the clouds and all through Virginia a most wonderful sunset was a sight to see. the mountains off in the distance were all but hidden in a fog, caused by the warmer rain and the cold snow on the ground. But some of the meadow views of meandering streams and snow covered fields and the wonderfully elegant farm houses made me realize what a lovely country we live in.
the only adventure was when i turned to Ron and asked him if the tent trailer had lights on it. His answer was “no” only reflectors. i did not agrue the point but that seemed odd. Then as we went by a tractor trailer he honked his horn at us. i thought he might be noticing something about the trailer, Ron thought he was complaining about Rons’ driving. But then he began to drive very close to the rear of our trailer. not quite on top of it but sort of hugging the vehicle. About 10 miles which in hind sight seems about a 100 Ron noticed that our truck’s headlamps were not on. he had shut them off as to not shine in the neighbors house this early morning and he had not put them on again. The truck was riding close behind us to protect us from vehicles which would not see us as we were whipping down the highway Rte 81 at 75-80 miles per hour. As soon as Ron put on the lights the truck driver backed off and returned to the right hand lane and left off following us. Now that is a good Samaratian. i say thank you very much for caring and doing something about it. His act reminds me that we can all do good deeds. I hope I get a chance to do something nice for someone tomorrow, a sort of pass it on Samaratism. (is that a word?)
the reward for 10 hours was a home made omelet, with the best home fries ever and a surprise of 3 tiny buttermilk pancakes with warm maple syrup. Now that is pretty boring when food is a reward or maybe it is human.
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