FROM SHORE TO SHORE: bringing you up to date

October 18, 2012

It has been a long time since I wrote anything here, over a year.  Partly this has been due to difficulty with internet connections as we have traveled around the country and from RV park to RV park.  It has been a little over two years since we started out on our marvelous adventure and we love it just as much now as when we started.

 We have been from the shores of the Great Lakes

to the Pacific Coast;


from the mountains of Colorado






to the beaches of the Central Gulf Coast.

We have been in the desert,

         at the shore,

on the lakefronts and among the woodlands 

of this amazing country of ours.

We've spent time in the Heartland of America and watched the promise of Spring

turn into a draught-burned summer.






A glorious transition to Fall greeted us as we returned to the place from       which we started in Central Michigan.





Now we are back at the beach where the breezes are gentle and the sea oats wave hello.

The contrasts and variations are spectacular.  How can I pick a favorite?  Each ecosystem, each environment is wonderful in its own unique right.  I have loved them all.  What a glorious creation it is!

We have met such wonderful people along the way.  It seems we have built a collection of friends as we've traveled instead of a collection of stuff.  Isn't that wonderful?  So much more delightful and lasting!  I complained above about the variables of internet connection, yet this wonderful tool has allowed us to stay in touch with many of the wonderful folks we have met, as well as with family.  I know that I could not have enjoyed this journey as much if these connections had not been available.  Skype, instant messaging, Facebook, Instagram, my Iphone have all been wonderful instruments in making and sustaining relationships.  I applaud them! I am deeply grateful for them.  How amazing is our world of communication!

I have begun to write more, though you wouldn't know it from this blog!  I'm working on a family history, have dabbled in some poetry and started a couple of ideas that might flesh out into a short story or book.  This is a dream that I'm exploring even as I'm following the RVing dream.  I've been reading and doing the exercises of the book "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. This has been quite a spiritual pilgrimage, one well worth taking. Here is a poem I wrote one morning as I walked around the lake at our park in Central Illinois:

          Sing, birds, your merry tune to glory in the morning.

          Filter, light, to usher muse in flash of sunlight glow.

          Travel the trail, walkers and carts, seeming to disrupt the flow

               But music is heard in a cheery hello, in a wave, as the day's aborning.

          Ripple, lake, your shimmery shine inviting  peace at your shore.

          Rustle, leaves, to welcome the sounds that through the spirit pours.

          Return, wanderer, to find the source that fills the cup o'erflowing

              For the music heard in each part of the whole is more than the earth can store.

                      (All rights reserved, Mildred P. Ericson, 10/18/2012)

I guess the thing I want to say as I reflect on things since the last time I blogged and at this point in the journey:  Don't wait.  Go for your dream.  Have fun.  Play.  Find the time.

Til next time,

Millie