Tuesday 3/26/13
I don’t know why I didn’t write
yesterday but I kind of vegged out, watched movies and read all day long. I
intend to talk with Ruth and Kevin about returning north possibilities; I
didn’t talk with Renate yesterday and don’t know if she’s made any definite
plans yet – maybe we’ll talk today.
There’s a lunch at a relative’s
restaurant today at one o’clock; I paid Barb 50 pesos for it yesterday. Not sure how many are attending. Nancy and Doug should have returned
from Guadalajara and Diane’s farewell last night – not sure if they did. Lincoln was calmer last night and
wasn’t clawing at the door to get out after his 24- hour outdoor adventure.
I’ve done a little morning clean
and straighten up – so nice to have the little Mexican vac. Oh, no! The hand-held shower tube just
broke off the faucet and I think that means no more showers in the house ‘cause
I’m sure I won’t find a part to repair it. Well, I just use the new shower room almost right next door
to my RV. Everybody raves about
the facilities for showers so it’s my turn to try it out.
I watched “Lincoln” with D.D.
Lewis again yesterday and am so glad I did; I got so much more out of the
dialog the second time around. I
also watched “Red Eye” with Rachel McAdams and the costume designer was Mary
Clare Hannon, my neighbor in San Rafael’s daughter! Yeah for her – she’s making her way in Hollywood!
Tuesday afternoon – Right now
there’s thunder and lightening and a minuscule number of drops of rain; the
electricity has gone off so I retrieved my Coleman lantern and am writing on my
laptop via battery. Only without
power for an hour.
The lunch today was very very
good – at the restaurant owned by Chema (Sal’s cousin) only a few feet from the
entrance to the RV Park. Chema –
Jose Maria - and his wife, Irma, who I’ve mentioned before, hosted a lovely
barbecue almuerzo for a large group of us from the RV park. It seems that every year about this
time Sal and Barb host a fiesta at the end of the winter RV season; this year
has been difficult since Barb’s dad died in November 2012 and their daughter
died this January so Barb hasn’t been capable of planning and carrying out some
of their normal entertainment!
Amazing to me, since this is the most “user-friendly” park I’ve ever
been in! What more could they do
to make us all feel welcomed and happy?
Anyway, I rode over with Nancy
and Doug and when we arrived they’d decided to move the party indoors because the tent-awnings they’d rented didn’t arrive and the sun
was very hot. We moved furniture
together to make one very long table seating about 24 people. I kind of sidled up to “Tioga George,”
a 75-year-old single man – the one I mentioned earlier as being the only male
single traveler I recall having met on this trip, put my hand on his shoulder and
said something like, “You’ll be my date for lunch!” Yuck, Mary-Pat, what an intro to conversation – and I wonder
why people sometimes shy / move away from me!!!! Well, George Lehrer turned out to be the most
interesting person I’ve met in a very long time. I really can’t even say how long it’s been since I was so
impressed at a first conversation.
I could describe our conversation as easy going, flowing from subject to
subject, non-boastful, honest, thoughtful, thought provoking, non-threatening. I could go on and on with
adjectives. We have lots in
common. Don’t we always say that
when we meet somebody interesting?
“We have so much in common!”
But, in fact, it’s true of the two of us:
- Bucket lists and life goals - lots of travel plans
- “Don’t make the grave the goal of your life”
- Recognizing and correcting psychological / personality flaws and just plain bad habits, untoward negative effects of parenting on children
- flute playing
- ability to listen and hear others’ thoughts / truths WITHOUT having to express disagreement or negativity
- overcoming fear and looking for adventure
- Snickers
We talked and talked during and
after lunch and; when we arrived back at the RV park, he invited me in to his
motor home and we talked for at least another hour.
He shared that he’s been married
and has two sons – unfortunately, the elder has passed away. He permanently lives in Mexico in his
RV, travels from place to place – often simply dry camping on streets and in
neighborhoods of pueblos.
He previously lived in the Walnut
Creek / Concord area before his adventure started 10 years ago. He writes a well-known blog called
“Adventures of Tioga and George.” I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting and getting to know him and
would like to keep a dialog going with him. Who knows what the future might bring?
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