One Week Off
Posted on February 12, 2009
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Posted by Daria
We just got back on the road after spending a week visiting our home in Corrales. It really did seem like a visit, because when someone else is living in your house—in this case Ryan, 31, son/stepson/half brother—it’s not quite the same. Our stuff had to make way for his stuff. And let’s not get into the mess factor; let’s just say things could have been worse but could have been better.
Driving west from Texas, I didn’t feel the excitement I usually feel when re-encountering the New Mexico landscape after being away, probably because I’ve seen so much other magnificent scenery in the past nine months. How’ya gonna keep ‘em on the farm when they’ve seen Pa-ree? Or Banff, or Tuscany, or Prague …
It was nice to be able to cook complicated food again, to shower in our own shower and sleep in our king-sized bed. To visit friends, eat carne adovada, green chile, tamales. It was also a relief to unload our cargo of Christmas presents and European souvenirs—items marked “fragile,” like the papier mache Plague Doctor mask and the ceramic chicken water jug—and determine they were still intact.
But it’s great—and normal—to be on the road, sleeping in bunks and makeshift beds, slipping on shower shoes, cursing the crummy wi-fi connections, washing our undies in the sink, avoiding Jack Johnson on the Sirius, watching “Homicide” DVDs, seeing what there is to see. We’ve got our sea legs (RV legs?) back.
Did I mention we visited a famous barbecue place for lunch?
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