"Covid Thinking" is there any other way?

A few days ago, (well maybe a few weeks) I started thinking about how we are all thinking. We as in this world full of people. We are all acting & reacting to information we have about this virus. Some of us are very well informed, some just doing what's told, and some going against the grain. As I thought about it I realized we are all acting in a way because of Covid and how we have been informed of it. Our many thoughts in our day have to do with this information. 

We talk about it with Friends & Family. We continue to live it, and we try to see the future after it. Most of us miss many parts of our pre-covid lives. Hugs, hand shakes,  a kiss, sharing thing's, just being close, and not guarded all the time. Oh and sports, can't go to a game, and concerts, can't even go out to dance! 

But we are alive!

I started to think how will this time 2020 will be remembered? Then I say to myself, ahh shit, what does it matter. Let's live the best we can now! Not throw it all to the wind, but act best we can now, as usual do the best we can with what we have. 

So, we bought a new trailer to satisfy the urge to travel, and instead stay put this winter.

Well not really, we bought this to update, and solve some problems we had with our other trailer. Bedroom was to small and not tall enough for me, and had a terrible step on the floor beside the bed, bathroom was cramped, no washer dryer could be installed, no decent closet, basement was smaller. So some big things, and quite a few small things helped make our minds up. The biggest thing that helped us decide was our comfort factor. Comfort with the cost, as well as comfort inside our new rig. 

We took time to decide, Polly was generally happy with the other one, but I was not happy almost right away. Needed that extra head space, and closet for all our clothes. So I kept looking, and after we our summer trip, when we had some quiet time I found an add for this trailer. I showed Polly and she said ok, and we decided to call a sales person we had met in Port Alberni before we had bought our last trailer as he told us he could have any trailer in Arbutus stock brought to Port if we wanted to.look at it.

Steve helped us just like he said he would, and I'm sure he will all along with our new home. And home 🏡 it is, we feel right at home here as much is the same just a little bigger, and the newness feels nice too. 

After we did the last look before we committed, on our way home Polly started with the ideas 😆 I love how she says "I was thinking" lol, such an innocent way Polly has as she thinks and says this.

So - Spice cabinet

Add a coupleshelves

Slideouts in the pantry again 😆🤣

Washer for sure, Drier maybe?

Install the satellite dish on top.

My list, TV for bedroom 😁

Some new shelter outside to work in this winter

A new coffee pot, lol this one just don't fit

I'm sure more will come, but for now we are feeling pretty darn good. 

Has Covid changed our behavior, yes it has. I shook the hand of a friend yesterday I had not seen for years. Did I think about it, yes. But I was not going to pull back from that greeting this time. Darn it felt good to say Hello like we used to. 

Hunker down for now, but keep alive and prepare to move again when this virus let's up it's grip on our world. 

Loving this life just a little more today 🤗

Closeness in RV parks can be Mocho interesting

Being close to your neighbors is good if you get along, and mostly we do get along with our neighbors, so much so that I look forward to seeing new people moving in next to us, or us moving in next to others. Sometimes we strike it off right away, sometimes not until we or they are just about to leave. The part I realize is all it takes is a Hi, 👋 how ya doing. Or a "Nice 🐕 dog" or "Catch anything?"🎣 Then off goes the conversation to who knows where. 

Polly always jokes with me when I come back from a walk around and say "I met someone!" Usually she says "doo tell" 

When a neighbor pulls in often we wait to say hi, as the move in and parking is sometimes tense, actually most of the time it's a tense time. 

After our new neighbors are settled we meet and talk. The starting conversation often is where did you travel from? Where are you going? These two questions give both travelers much information. Always we are looking for information on where we are planning on going, and what we could, should see, where to stay, or look out for. This conversation can be vital for many reasons, it also "breaks the ice" as some say. I like to say brings us closer.

For me with smiles on our faces, we can now relax and enjoy the best part of getting to know each other. The beginning is like being at a party meeting someone, just not nervous as no pressure. We can walk and talk, or stand or be examining how the parking went. So much happens in a short time as we meet. We have much in common right away.

So many different people pass through our lives, and this closeness is similar or same as living in an RV of some sort, it's exilarating for me. We see, hear and speak with each other in so many ways. People do not try to hideaway usually, people are friendly, optimistic, freespirited, "Gypsies" some may say. 

Some travel in groups, but most we find travel on there own, for so many different reasons, work, family, touring, necessity, a place to live. We are usually traveling to see something, or meet someone.

We often have stops built into our trip to visit friends or family as we go, is nice to see people we have not visited with for awhile. 

Some of the best times are when we have no sure destination, and no predetermined time to be somewhere. Then we make our plans as we go. Polly is very good at saying "I was thinking 🤔",  many very good dreams develop this way. 🤗

I really like developing a possibly. When talking with others as you are just getting to know them, if I throw out what I'm thinking of doing sometime in the future. Never know where this might go, but it does explore a possibility list that I have. Some call it a bucket list, I think of it as possiblities. Never know if we will get a chance to do them all, but is nice to dream hey😀

This year we have committed to staying put here at Arrowvale till January 1st then we may just stay till spring, never know. But dreaming will continue, and plans will develop as we wait for the world to reopen, and our new reality opens up like blinds to the future. 

For now I'll dream of possiblities with friends we have, and new friends we have yet to meet. 

Life is so darn Good 🤗❤️🍀

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving everybody 🦃

What's next for this World/Planet we live on?

I'm thinking we are on our way to a new society on our planet. 

After Covid most all of us hope we go back to the way it was! I for one think that most countries have indebted them selves to the point of no return. People have jobs taken from them, companies have business lost, so much drastic change that just going back to where we were I think is not going to happen. 

Despondent thought on bathroom wall 😳

"I will never financially recover from this"

I wonder if this is true for many, how will we go on? What's next? Traveling the world has changed, and economies of many countries that depend on travel to support there country. If no travel, no jobs, no taxes = Broke! 

What's next then? 

History has proven that after disaster, we can and do pickup our socks and move on. Some won't have socks to pull up! 

Not being bleak here, I'm just wondering what's next. So much of what we all percive as freedom has been given up to government and now being directed by health science to the point of all asking what we are allowed to do. 

     Covid sign I made up for this winter

Here where we live we can still go to a restaurant, pub, shopping in some places, and most places without a mask. This is changing by the day, and pushed by many as the best way to prevent covid from spreading. 

We can't go over the boarder to USA by driving, but we can fly into the state's. Hmm I think, who makes the rules? I say this as there are so many that make no sense. I know I don't make the rules, I just make sure I go where there are less rules, and do what I have to when entering a place that has rules. 

I joke about having to move further north to get some freedom back, just not sure how far north we would have to go 🎅🤶

We have been asked by many "Where will you go next?" I keep answering "Not sure, see what changes as time goes on."

And that's it in a nutshell, plans many had are postponed or cancelled, stay put is our next move. Now I say break out the woodworking tools, I'm going to get busy having fun. And the hiking boots, as there are many places here in Port Alberni I have yet to hike. Netflix, that might get good use too. And Friend's and Family who are close will be in our circle to spend time with. Oh yeah, writing, I'm sure I will do more of that during the winter 😉

   Our camp is setup, rains about to come

What more can we ask for? Surprise to come around the corner 🤣😃☺️ 

Life has a way of sending us just what we need to brighten our lives, just when we need it! Arrowvale Campground is purfect for our winter of rest from traveling 🤗♥️

Loving this life, Covid restrictions and all😀

          Garden and view are still intact