After eleven nights of camping, Mom and I couldn’t be any readier for bed, a fresh cup of coffee, and some home cooking.
We pulled into my Uncle Scott and Aunt Val’s driveway just outside of Edmonton to find a fridge full of beer, food on the table, and chairs on their back deck just asking us to take a seat and relax. When my Aunt returned from work, she took us to her community garden down the road so Mom and I could ‘oooh’ and ‘ahhh’ over the flowers and abundance of vegetables.
The flowers were fantastic but the bugs were horrible, so after 10 mosquito bites in 10 minutes, we ran off to the car to polish off our case of beer, and before Mom and I settled into bed we smoked our last cigarettes out on the back porch. To this day we are still going strong!
The next morning Scott let Mom and I pick out books from his library. This is just a small pocket of said library:
I grabbed ‘the End of Elsewhere’ by Taras Grescoe- a great travel book that I failed to be able to put down once I opened the page. I love reading travel books, especially while I’m travelling around myself. A few quotes I liked from the book:
This travel sickness, which no amount of Dramamine can cure, is expensive and exhausting. I pay for the euphoric rush of movement with back pain, lost luggage and friends, and escalating feelings of disorientation and rootlessness.
The sole cause of mans unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room – Blaise Pascal
Another day of delicious food and beer in the evening, and my Mom’s cousin MJ that lives close by came through for a visit and we spent the evening watching the sun go down on Scott and Val’s great porch.
Wednesday morning came and it was time to say goodbye to the kitties, and see you soon to Scott and Val, who would be joining us in Calgary the next day, in preparation for my cousin Jen’s wedding.
Digital Seagull 