�EDITOR'S RAVE�
I’m writing this from the seat of
a plane bound for Texas on my
trusty laptop that only hours ago
was in the hands of a thief. The
lady who had been sitting next to me in
my previous flight from Oregon to L.A.
stole my computer and was already on
the shuttle bus to her connecting flight to
Las Vegas with my computer in her hands
before I realized it was gone. I am forever
thankful to my amazing aptly named
American Airlines steward “Treasure”
(yes, that really was her name!) who ran
like a bolt of lightning in hot pursuit and
managed to catch up with the thief on
the bus and get my computer back to
me. Thank you Treasure!
It is now 8.30pm and I have a three-hour
flight ahead of me. I couldn’t watch a
movie because I left my headphones at
home (and they apparently don’t give
them out on planes any more). I’m rather
hungry after rushing from the laptop
fiasco to my connecting fight and haven’t
eaten since I left home at 2pm today, but
I now have to wait until they decide to
roll the food cart down the aisles. This
journey has made me realize something
important: Airline travel sucks!
Anyone who thinks otherwise and thinks
that traveling is somehow glamorous and
exciting, just hasn’t done it often enough
in my opinion. My advice to anyone
contemplating an interstate adventure is
this: If you have to get from point A to point
B and you’re not in any great hurry and
you have the choice between making a
road trip of it towing your rolling little
trailer home behind you or flying there,
DRIVE!
I’m a firm believer that everything
happens for a reason and I guess I needed
this realization right now. I’ll be honest,
I did get kind of burnt out after this past
summer of non-stop events and road
trips that took me thousands of miles
over several state lines through Oregon,
California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico,
Nevada, Washington and all the way north
again to Canada and back. It was hard
work, and after my last trip my health took
a turn for the worse. I took some time off,
pondered my life choices, then pulled
myself together to finish this issue.
So now here I am, on a plane, comparing
the two ways of travelling and realizing
that all those times I exhausted myself
driving from event to event across the
country in that big old heavy Hudson,
even with the break downs and all, was
worth it. The RV, road tripping life is still
the best way to travel, by far! Despite the
challenges it is still what brings me the
most joy.
For starters, how good is it having
everything you could ever need at
any given time easily accessible at
any moment? Being able to stop
whenever you want, to eat whenever
(and whatever) you want, to sleep
(comfortably in your own bed) any time
you want without screaming babies and
the pervasive drone of jet engines in
your ears? Utter bliss! And don’t even
get me started on the joys of changing
scenery and amazing views and historic
sights and tumbled down old wooden
barns… (sigh)
Autumn is my favorite time of the year
and my home town in Oregon is looking
particularly spectacular at the moment.
We never had these dramatic changes
of the seasons back in Australia, so I find
this season the most mesmerizing of all.
I don’t like the heat of summer - it makes
me cranky!
But in Fall, the temperatures are perfect
with crisp cool evenings and sunny mild
days and the changing colors and falling
leaves just lifts my spirit and reminds
me of the marvel of nature and its ways
of renewal and growth and makes me
realize that this life I have created for
myself is the best way I know to honor
that. As my season of road tripping
comes to an end and I pack my little
trailer away for the winter I can give
myself permission to relax for a while,
just like nature is doing. And that little
voice in my heart reminds me that a
little bit of down time is OK, because it
means we’re still growing. We all have a
springtime’s worth of color and vibrancy
budding within us even if we can’t see it
as winter approaches.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Photo by Teresa Schmidt
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