Last night at the Roanoke Camping World parking lot we slept like babies. And I mean the kind of babies that sleep “like babies”, not the other kind. (We have a lot of the not much sleep babies in our family.) But John and I slept peacefully and got to sleep really early because we had no internet. Maybe that helped, I don’t know.
This morning, the sun was shining, it was sweetly warm and we had the garage fix us up for spring and summer weather! They de-winterized our motorhome, meaning that they reconnected the water pipes, drained the pink marine antifreeze out and filled the fresh water tank with fresh water so that now when we turn on the faucet, we get water. I am amazed at how much water we actually go through just to do the minimal things. I think we used about 12 gallons of water in the past three days from gallon jugs and plastic bottles! Now that we are back in summer mode, we have running water in two sinks, a flush toilet and a good shower and we even have a special drinking water filter in here with a drinking water tap so no more plastic bottles!
As soon as we left the shop, we hit rain and then buckets of rain and gusts of wind. It's not so easy to drive this 38 foot wind sail anyway, but in that weather it is just white knuckle every second so after driving only 80 miles we pulled into another Flying J truck stop and said that's that for the day. We went into the Denny’s for a meal and good thing we did, because the weather channel on their television there in the dining room was telling us that we were under tornado watch until 4pm. We knew it was nasty, but didn't know we were possibly in the path of a tornado! Fortunately for us, it was passing by west of us and we waited it out safely in the Denny's.
John had pancakes and I had a veggie burger. Yes, a Denny's concession to the vegetarians of the world. Otherwise all the other entrees included bacon or chicken. or both.
Its not that I am a totally committed vegetarian. It just seems that I feel better if I don’t eat meat. John eats meat occasionally. But this is the best part: he has stopped taking Lipitor, which he took for quite a few years. Three months after stopping it, his doctor tested him and he had a nice healthy cholesterol level. No problem and no need for drugs. We eat mostly whole grains and legumes, lots of fresh organic vegetables and fruits and some fish and shellfish. We eat a butter and cheese occasionally, cream in the coffee and tea, ice cream sometimes and chocolate regularly.
However, when I do buy chicken, I buy it from a local organic farmer. Same with any meat. So clearly meat at Denny’s would not qualify even if I did eat meat. The tragedy of how animals are treated really bothers me. The additives such as hormones and antibacterials really bother me. The high levels of pesticides and herbicides and fungicides, not to mention inappropriate foods like other ground up animals, really bother me. And bottom line, I cannot /will not support that industry any more. Uh-oh. This is starting to sound like a soap box. End of tirade.
So we are sitting in the parking lot of the truck stop just to the side of the lines of huge semi's going through the 10 or so diesel pumps here and completely amazed at the sheer numbers of trucks that keep coming. We admire the shiny ones or fancy ones with tons of little lights along the sides and edges, as if we are just sitting by a parade and in the process, are having a glass of wine and watching this beautiful sunset through the raindrops on the window, after the storm has passed.
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