
This is the last blog posting for Canadians on the Road. We thank you all for accompanying us on our travels for the last ten years.
It has been a grand journey of journaling. We started out emailing trip details using Public Library and University computers. We graduated to using the wonderful gadget called Pocketmail. Campground and corner pay phones became scarce and Wi-Fi became the pathway to our readers.
We have loved every place that we have visited. People have been the key to our enjoyment. In celebration of that key, we dedicate this last blog to all those wonderful people we met on our 2011 Winter/Spring journey.
Enjoy! And, if you aren't traveling already, get going! You, too, can meet all the wonderful people that we have met!
Have a blessed day,
Greg and Cathy
(All pictures are at the end. Click on them to enlarge. We're rushing off on another trip and thus I have not had time to label them. Enjoy!)
TO THERE AND BACK AGAIN
Linda and Fred (Who laugh a lot, teach Cribbage, love 15-year-old Canadian cheddar, introduced us to the delights of sauteed onions and apples; who opened their house and hospitality to us; who shared tales and who grimaced a bit as "Dad" Bailey adopted us into the clan;),
Scotty (Who spent hours with me in the bug tent discussing literature, faith and hearing aids),
Kay and Sam (Who were parked next to us, told jokes, loved mathematical puzzles, discussed books and history, and cooked his birthday cake in a Dutch oven covered with coals),
Bob, Carol and Cookie (Who imitated us into the Trivia Club at The SandBar & Grill, shared their campfire even though we were told to quiet down by the driver of the Mobile Bordello; who sat on the beach with us during the full moon as we listened to the lapping waves and imbibed spirits while waiting for the kayaks to cross the moon beams),
Jack and Carol (John, who regaled with us with stories of gators on the golf course and Carol who sang to us via the Island Singers),
John and Joan, {John who told us how foreign sailor are welcomed into the Port of Brunswick and Carol, who brought humor to the Trivia table and gathered her wonderful family around her including her sisters and mother, Adeline, who BTW is no slouch when it comes to Trivia!)
Diane from CGUUC ( Who guided us through food distribution in Brunswick) ,
Angela and Thomas, (Angela who first welcomed us to Aiken, SC many years ago; who makes bags and purses from dog food and cat food containers; Thomas who plans vacations in Africa and teaches his young son about bugs that sting.) ( and no, I didn't forget the two girls!);
Carleen (Who would like to straighten my tie but has to be satisfied in adjusting my Medic-Alert necklace);
Murray and Marion (Who initiated one of those many small-world situations that we encounter so often; they were from Ontario but we met in NC);
Mr. Wiggles (Who crawls up to me on the couch in Hatties Bookstore and puts his head on my lap while he guards the store by watching four-footed creatures.)
Bob, Barb and Ted, ( Fellow snowbirds who like conversation, shrimp, and good meals. Friends that we converted to the Order of the Waving Wand. BTW Ted is the dog.)
Doug Robeson, his sister - actually the whole family: brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, children, grandparents, and everyone at Brunswick Christian Academy, for making the Wizard of OZ dinner theater such a wonderful evening!
Doyle, Frances and grandson Luke (Who renewed our friendship of many years past and invited us to their home nestled in the woods between the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Mtns near Boone’s Mills, Virginia; who warmed our tummies with meatloaf, biscuits, gravy, potatoes, corn, and chocolate cake),
UU Church of Coastal Georgia, Aiken UU Church, ( They provide us with an accepting "spiritual" home in our wanderings. Not to mention all the friendships and social gatherings that emanate from them.);
Luc and Anne (pilot and former flight attendant who took all our remaining firewood and demonstrated how easy it is to fly from Brunswick, GA to Toronto.);
Will and Lorraine (who serve a great breakfast of Eggs Benedict with crab cakes and potatoes accompanied by warm craziness and jocularity at the Riley's Whitby Bull Restaurant in Aiken, SC,)
And on and on and on.......... there are so many wonderful people out there. I suppose we have forgotten many but every once in a while they creep back into our mind bring warm feelings of remembrance.
There were so many more: all the folks at Jellystone in Swansea, Kat who just graduated from Auburn, Jennie who has now acquired crutches for a couple of months; the folks at the retired teachers' breakfast up Clearfield, Pa., all of our family in Dubois, Clearfield and Weedville, PA; Tex the Bear who travels with us every where we go thanks to Champ and Jen; and Caleb's school achievement award that clings to our fridge reminding us that there are a great lot of young people out there.
We are still traveling; come on out and join us!!!!
Have a Blessed Day!
Cathy Gross
Greg Clapp



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