We’ve driven a lot of miles since the last post from Florida and we are now camped in Newark Delaware.
Yes we’ve gone from 80 and sunny to frigid and overcast!
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| 1200 miles, Clermont Florida to Newark Delaware |
We departed Wauchula Florida
on March 5th and returned to Clermont. The Orlando Thousand Trails
Campground here was our first stop back in December and is usually our last
stop on the way home. We had originally made reservations for 14 days, but we
were getting anxious to return to our “new to us” house and get back to work on
our current projects. We had tickets to see Jimmie Fortune at the Strawberry
Festival on Monday and had to go to the IKEA store in Orlando
to pick up a purchase. Then if the weather looked good in Myrtle Beach we would head home by the end of
the week.
On Monday morning a call from my brother changed those
plans, my mother who is 94 with a failing heart was not doing too well. We
quickly decided to miss the Jimmie Fortune show, pick up our purchase at IKEA
on Monday and head home early Tuesday.
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We departed Clermont at 8am and drove north for 550 miles,
arriving home in Myrtle Beach
in the afternoon. By now it was clear that my mother’s death was eminent. The
new plan was for me to fly or drive to Delaware
while Millie stayed home with our dog, Maggie. Sadly my mother died before we could implement the plan.
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| Mary A Midash in fall of 2017 |
As soon as funeral arrangements had been made, we reloaded the
motorhome and made the trip north. We traveled up RT 17 because of the Nor’easter
that was depositing snow on the I-95 corridor. Winds from the storm were very
strong all day and when we got to Norfolk we
decided to wait unit morning to cross the Bay Bridge
and Tunnel.
The following morning we drove up the peninsula to Lums Pond
state Park near Newark,
adding another 550 miles to our travels.
March this year has been colder than February in the Mid-Atlantic, temperatures are forecast to be well below freezing each night for
the next week. Inside the motorhome is comfortable, outside is another matter
altogether!
