Adventures
Text messages from my truck
My mother, bless her heart, never learned how to use her cell phone to send text messages. It was just beyond her technical abilities. My truck, on the other hand, sends me text messages frequently. Does that mean that my truck is smarter than my mother? I certainly hope not. Actually, it is not the … Continue reading
Worcester Art Museum
The Worcester Art Museum will never be put in the same category at The Louvre or even Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. However, for an art museum located in a small city, it isn’t bad. Better than I expected. Let’s start with the building itself. It is rather grand. Neo-gothic, I think, with a sunlit … Continue reading
New Salem Old Home Day
New Salem MA is a *very* small town – fewer than 1,000 residents. The center of the town consists of a few public buildings and maybe 20 houses. There just isn’t much there. But if you ever lived there you are invited to return for the annual “Old Home Day”. Presumably it is intended to … Continue reading
Cloning our life
When Jett and I left Flagler Beach, headed north on Amtrak, we took as many of our belongings as we could carry in one large suitcase and four small shopping bags. A few days after we arrived, I returned to Florida to return the RV to its home base and to collect more of our … Continue reading
Worcester’s EcoTarium
In an effort to get to better know the city where I am doing time this summer – and to, perhaps, make this blog just a little less depressing – I made a brief visit to Worcester’s EcoTarium yesterday. TripAdvisor ranks it as the #2 attraction in Worcester (the #1 attraction, the Worcester Art Museum, … Continue reading
First chemo
Jett had her first chemotherapy infusion on Monday. She approached it with a great deal of trepidation. She had, of course, heard all the horror stories of violent upchucking and generally feeling like crap. But she was committed to doing a minimum of one treatment, so Monday morning she got showered and dressed, took a … Continue reading
Two weeks in Worcester
I keep looking for ways to return this blog to the topic of travel, but with cancer looming over our heads and having no RV to live in, that is nearly impossible. So I will have to just record our lives and strive to make it less than totally depressing. Our first residence in Worcester … Continue reading
TN5 Hop 3: Flagler Beach FL to Worcester MA
1436 miles via I-95, Merritt Parkway and I-84, about 960 miles on Amtrak and 220 tow miles to return the RV to Ft Myers. Cumulative tow miles: 457. Cumulative truck miles: 1675. The additional truck miles were accumulated in traveling between the Bulow RV Resort and the Jacksonville Amtrak station, visiting the Florida state parks … Continue reading
Hospital drama and the radical reshaping of the TN5
To say that the fifth trip north (TN5) has not gone as planned would be a massive understatement. The entire trip has morphed from an RV journey to New Hampshire to a rather desperate attempt to get to Massachusetts by any means available. After 5 weeks in Flagler Beach – rather than the planned 3 … Continue reading
Solving the Rusty problem
Rusty is a good dog and is rarely a problem. Except when we have to travel by some mode other than truck or car. He is not a large dog, weighing in at 35 pounds, but he is too large to carry on board either a passenger plane or a train. He probably would do … Continue reading