DAY 12: Purple Mountains, Spacious Skies, Amber Grain, and MORE RAIN!!!
Today is July 20th. Yesterday morning, the heater kicked on in the RV…for the third time in a week! We’re still chuckling about that. Gosh, I wonder if we should send a letter to Al Gore? Heh…
I usually take Sundays off but I was behind due to our family fun so I worked all day yesterday. The boys played outside for awhile. It was a pretty slow, do-nothing kind of day, the type of day I’ve come to appreciate more as I get older. No stress, no drama…just complete, delicious boredom. Aaaahhh…
Anyway, this morning we woke up, packed up the RV, and hit the road. We’re heading north again, landing somewhere in Maryland tonight. We stopped at a large shopping complex somewhere in West Virginia. Richard went to the grocery store with Mason while I went to the craft store with Max. Max gets very bored if he doesn’t have crafty stuff to do. I bought him some new paper (white and colored) and a kit to build a foam castle. I bought Mason a couple of goodies, too. We finished first so we went to the grocery store to meet up with Richard and Mason. I bought Max four boxes of toothpicks there. Ever since he saw one man’s HUGE toothpick sculpture online, he’s wanted to give it a try. Gosh, talk about a cheap hobby! Fifty-nine cents a box! And, we already had glue on board.
After we loaded the groceries in the RV, and put away the cold stuff, we walked to a sandwich shop. Max has decided that honey baked ham is better than Subway ham. We found a mailbox so Max was able to mail a letter he wrote to Matt and I mailed two postcards to the older kids in Maine. We also ran into Books a Million. I’d never been in one of those bookstores before and it was very nice! I found exactly what I was looking for (a new Beverly Lewis book – Christian Fiction about the Amish, very addictive! – and a book on embroidery stitches). Max got ANOTHER book about graffiti, this one full of train photos.
Max’s new book and crafts are great rainy-day activities and it sure looks like we got them just in time because, yes, it is going to rain AGAIN! We just crossed the West Virginia / Maryland border. There are still purple mountains in the distance. Not seeing many amber waves of grain here but we did see some in West Virginia. The spacious skies are heavy with impatient raindrops. Good thing Grampa fixed the windshield wiper! Well, almost anyway. Richard had to use a bit more duct tape on it today but it appears to be working just fine now.
TRIP PICTURES ARE HERE.
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UPDATE – 7:30 p.m. – Oh My GOSH! We are BACK in the LAND of the LIVIN’! We have CABLE TV!!!