Home, Burnaby, BC, Canada and the Thor Hurricane

Home, Burnaby.BC Canada

It’s 6 am.  Daylight saving time is ending. We’ll not be moving the clocks forward or backwards anymore.

I’m sitting in my Thor Hurricane Motorhome, very grateful.  

I completed the inaugural run and passage with the Thor. Last year I bought it late spring. Then I took the Ford 350 Truck and Adventurer Camper I’d driven south for the winter and drove off to see my nephews.  Maizy hadn’t been born yet but I met her in her mommy home.  Alana and Meagan were wonderful. It was special to see Andrew and Tanya and the boys.  Adell and Graeme and the dogs were a great visit in Napanee.  I returned to take the Thor out on weekends romps. But the big deal was driving south. Thanks to Larry and Peter who do this every year I had the knowledge of routes and encouragement.

Now I’ve driven south to LA in early December and after weeks at Hollywood RV Parkvisiting galleries with Laura and a reantal car we saw her off at the airport while Madigan and I continued to Fountain of Youth RV resort .  I loved being back there especially the meetings. Also I enjoyed visiting Bombay Beach Cafee and and Pastor Jack at the Beach Church. They were were on to Sleepy Hollow RV Park in Winterhaven for a few weeks.  Walking across the border at Algadones I had my St. Thomas dental check up, bought more glasses from SOL, along with purses for Christmas gifts for the girls. Then I was headed back to Fountain of Youth.  Every stop and passage I gained knowledge of driving the big motorhome. It was wider and longer than nayhting I’d driven and I just kept on with the steep learning curve.  Cars honked on the way down and then they didn’t. I’d learned to keep in my lane and better handle the 12 lane 70mph freeways.  I even succeeded slowly to learn to back into a space.

I had a variety of repairs. First the knocking off the mirror at the Nexus border crossing.  Thanks to mobile RV tech’s each of these repairs went really well with the best of people being recommended each time by the RV campsite office.  In Orange grove I finally had my furnace repaired. I’d just worn shoes and sweaters.  In Hollywood RV I had the first inkling of slide difficulties as the slide sheered off the outlets pipe to the gray water tank. Again a mobile tech came out and did a skookum job of repair.  After Fountain of Youth I went on to Palm Springs with the idea that another year Laura could fly into Palm Springs for a visit as there was an airport there.  I’d dinged the awning parking in the town by the market and that was rrepaired by a fine fellow there.  

It was in Palm Sprngs I became very sick with sinusitis, laryngitis, bronchitis and that terrible sense that I might possibly die.  Pneumonia, the old man’s friend. I was miserable but Madigan walked me. I couldn’t keep up with work. 350 emails in the week.  Lots of calls and cancellations. Thankfully Mary Lou at Docside managed the clinic.  I really don’t get sick often. It always seems to be a URI.  I didn’t take antibiotics this time.  I managed and slowly got better. I always think that ‘sickness’ is my body’s way of aaying it was overworked. I felt overwhelmed with all the new intakes, demands for forms and that aggressive entitlement that plagues medicine these days.

I didn’t like the news.  Carney a Neo communist was allying with China for the NWO and alienating the USA.  I was in the US reading the misinformation and propaganda of CBC.  It was all so disappointing.  I felt like I was living in the invasion of the body snatchers.  

While driving and travelling alone I have memories and more memories passing through while I’m praying to God to keep us safe. It was especially hard to carry on because the illness left me fatigued and brain fogged. I had a couple of thousand km’s to go but could only make a couple of hours of driving to start. It wasn’t until I was north of San Francisco and out of the major freeway shoots that I began to feel alive again and enjoy the journey.  I was so grateful to God to have carried me. I had to get back to Canada because my travel insurance was going to be up and I didn’t want to be sick alone in the US.  I needn’t of worried since each day I was feeling better and travelling more miles north. I really loved reaching the Oregon Beaches and again stamping at the Oceanside RV park in Gold Beach.  I felt growing Hope each day.  Then I was hitting the mirror returning but this time not having the mirror knocked off just turned.  A lovely border crossing guard and then back at Burnaby .

When  I was in a peacock populated KOA when I couldn’t ‘t get the Slide back in. That’s when the ex LAPD lt came to rescue and was able to get the slide in and secure.  I drove home with it that way.  I

I was reminded of sailing/crusing when we call it ‘doing boat work in exotic places’.  I truly felt that I was exorcising the demons . The previous owner had had the slide problem too.

Back in Burnaby I called Traveland and was thankful they could get me in.  The repair that was planned for a day or two had me sleeping in the parking lot Monday Night, Tuesday Night, but Wedneday night I took a $70 taxi into town and retrieved my Mini.  The battery was dead and thankfully BCAA gave me a boost but the battery wouldn’t hold the charge. But thankfully I had the Charger I’d bought before leaving south. I was having to use that each time I started the battery till I got a new one at Canadian Tire.  I stayed in Surestay Hotel , working class place with higher rates.  It always seems that there are elements in Canada that charge luxury rates but don’t provide the luxury service. I’ve known both and appreciate when the rates jive.  The truth is I was thankful and that couple of nights allowed me to get to my men’s meeting and to enjoy a day of work from the hotel. I’d not been able to keep up with patients in the office that I was able to use at Traveland in the day. I could do computer work but at the hotel I had the privacy to phone and catch up.  Progress. Then amazing Service called to say Thor was ready.

Laura was coming over on Friday.  I was able to get a taxi out there and amazing.  The slide was restored.  A major task that I’d really ‘worried’ about .  I believe the law of attraction is such that my ‘fear’ attracts these events.  I think ‘worrying is wicked’ and block negativity as best as I can.  Sick I was having no peace of mind and my thinking itself was a chore.  I felt though my guardian angels and Jesus and my relatives and those who’d gone before were all around.

Then it was home. I drove my Thor from Langley to Burnaby no longer afraid of driving the ‘beast’.  I even parked okay and enjoyed levelling and putting out the slide.  It was raining and it’s rained ever since. I was however  able to get the laundry I’d dropped off. My mail hadn’t been forwarded as I paid for and ironically a CRA notice didn’t get to me because the Post office. - other government workers hadn’t forwarded the government mail.  No harm was done.  I didn’t like it.  

I was astonished how losing a week to illness backed everything up.  I’m still trying to sort it all out and feel tired.,

I had my birthday in the Parking Lot of Traveland.  My birthday dinner was a delivered pizza.  I resisted the ‘poor me’ and ‘self pity pot’. I just kept on trekking and kaloo kalay the slide was completed. The clinic managed. I didn’t die.  Madigan and I had a wonderful meal at White Spot, he had a burger and I had fish and chips with a vanilla milkshake

Laura has been a delight to have visit.  Her car is under the weather so she had to taxi.  I picked up rotisserie chicken and Choices Deli salads , quiche for breakfast and yesterday barbecued steak which we all loved. We watched new episodes of Cross and Star Trek.  

Trump of the US and Netanyahu of Israel attacked Iran bombing its nuclear facilities again but most importantly limiting its oil supply to China.  Maduro the cartel criminal of Venezuela have been arrested last month and now Iran was invade. Both provided oil to China who was threatening to invade Taiwan.  Without oil no invasion.  The Russia Ukraine war persisted but at latest Ukraine was pushing Russia back. The main problem was the corruption with Ukraine war appearing more money laundering.  The Minneapolis Muslim nursery school scam involving millions was exposed with the Somalians seeming to have taken their piracy from water to land.  The Epstein lists were released and several people have been arrested.

I’m happy to see the UN agenda 21/30. Climate Change cult and NWO with China first has been blocked by the Republicans.  The Democrats like our Liberals seem just to be into all manner of criminal activities.  The News is binary and I don’t’ really know what it ‘true’ despite reading X and FB and looking up matters that seem far fetched.  Conspiracy theories keep being exposed and government abuses like those with Jan 6 and with the Freedom Convoy seem particularly insidious.  WEF is mostl evil. 

That’s all ambiguous back ground.,

I’m back in Canada and thankful that hat my motorhome which the bank has supported my buying since they have my money in the bank is turning out to be a wonderful experience. I don’t want to move right now but I feel I can. I had the Fusion fifth wheel for years and never pulled it myself and here. I’m comfortable driving the Thor. It’s a big deal to me.

I feel like I’ve caught up.  I used the Vespa to take a run to teh local mall and bought a new Walmart Quilt I hope Madigan doesn’t chew.I left him to hump the pillow and he’s not bothered Laura as he had in the past. There’ s hope.  

I really am grateful for this journey and adventure. I don’t know if I will return next year. it’s a long drive . IF it do go I may just 

limit it to Palm Springs and Fountain of Youth.  I also think of going to the Island which has more sun and less rain and cold in the winter.

I want a vehicle I can dinghy tow so that’s the next hill to climb. Mostly I think of a Maverick .  I have my Camper and truck to sell.  My motorhome with a small truck would suit all my needs. I don’t have a great desire to hunt. I weight the risk of hurting myself and don’t know how I’d get a deer out of the woods on my own.  Aging is a bitch. I can still hunt grouse.  Though I remember my dad and other friends stopped hunting and moved to fishing older. I may do that.  I’m not really sure what comes next. This was the challenge and now I’m capable.  I am grateful. Thank you Jesus.  I’m working and my mother was always glad to know I was in debt because she said ‘then she knew Bill would be working’.  I certainly like working but I’d like to complete the books I want to write and to develop more spiritually.  I feel I’m at a crossroads of some sort not certain what comes next but ready and willing to continue.

Thank you Jesus for my health. Thank you for Laura and Madigan and family and friends. Thank you for Thor.  Thank you for this adventure and journey and the ability to continue to work virtually as well as in person.

Thank you Jesus.