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Ignoring
Clint Eastwood's advice in "Dirty Harry" that
opinions, like certain body parts, are best kept to
yourself.
As
a soon-to-be 83 year old widower for 7 years, traveling
alone is no longer the experience I enjoyed with my wife of
53 years, when we hit the road full time 15 years ago. Hazel
and I went everywhere, documenting it in our travel blog at
www.mytripjournal.com/ronandhazel,
it was a wonderful part of my life. Hazel died of cancer in
2019, and I tried to keep up the travel routine, but it just
wasn't the same. I'd head down to Florida, as we always did,
and stop along the way, but when I stayed at an RV park in
Georgia for a while, there was a knock on the door, two men
from the RV office were doing a "welfare check" to
see if I was still alive. I hadn't been outdoors since
checking in, and they were concerned. I'd been inside the
motorhome watching television and movies, I could have done
that back in Minnesota.
Housekeeping over time has
gone completely to hell, dishes stacked in the sink, laundry
piling up, floor needing scrubbing or vacuuming, the outside
of the RV hadn't been washed and scrubbed since I don't know
when. I guess I assumed that beds made themselves, and I
started to wear my clothes for several days, mainly because
I was running out of fresh ones. A friend, concerned about
me asked one day on phone, "Ron, I assume you're
shaving and showering on a regular basis, right?" I
asked him what month this was.
Self-diagonosing, I
had to admit that I must be suffering a "senior widower
depression", and I'm not sure what the cure is. I don't
need a new wife, Hazel and I were married for 53 years, and
I miss her terribly every day, what I need is a cleaning
lady.
A while back, I was talking to a widow a few
years younger than me, and she mentioned how she'd love to
take one of the motorhome trips to the South in the winter
with me. I was flattered, but told her that would be great,
except her reputation would be shot to hell with the Ladies
Altar Society, and I'm not sure how that would work.
After
writing this, I decided to definitely do some laundry and
dishes tomorrow, and scrub the floor in the RV. Well, at
least in the bathroom, and clean the toilet, it needs it.
Please
visit
my
travel blog to learn more about my life on the road,
traveling with my wife for about 10 years. I continued alone
after Hazel's death for about 5 years, but it wasn't the
same, not much to report in the travel blog, and for the
past two years, I've been parked in front of my daughter's
Minnesota lake cabin. I'm not sure I can handle another
Minnesota winter, and hope to be on the road South again
this Fall. We'll see.
Global
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Not much airplane
referral business the past couple of years, but I continue
to update my homepage almost daily with items I find
interesting, and hope you do as well.
I welcome
responses, and will be glad to post them here. Email your
remarks to
ron@global-air.com |
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