Yes, we still owe everyone a backdated entry from leaving Florida and heading up the east coast! I haven't bothered to get any pictures uploaded of our trek until now....
We are settled in PEI, Canada after leaving Florida and stopping in Phily (LOVED IT!) and Boston (HATED IT! The campground was lovely though!). I have many pictures from our trip up and I promise to get those posted soon. Then again, that's what I said about the wedding photos. Go me!
We left our last stop, Boston, in 85 degree weather and drove straight through until we hit a blizzard. I shit you not, it was a full fledged blizzard in PEI. I can't say I was surprised....as this island seems to know when I'm coming, and naturally, it prepares its seemingly endless torture on my poor soul. Ok dramatic much! ?
And sad I was. No, wait, DEVASTATED would be the word. That chest pressure, heart sinking, lump in throat, hazy cloud over your head type of feeling. To add to it, we had to drop our RV off for repairs on the way to Bryans parents place....some last minute fixes before the warranty is up. I failed to get most of the items I needed for a month, as the freezing cold near took the breath right out of us and the slush ravaged our poor sandeled toes. Prepared, we were not....but we didn't expect this kind of weather. Well, I had a hint, but, you know. At least everyone is convinced it's me. Two days earlier people were out in tank tops getting tans. As our friend Kelly put it: "I didn't know when you guys we're going to arrive, but when I saw the weather change like that, I knew Cat was on the island". Lovely huh!
The only consolation are Bryans wonderful parents, friends in Charlottetown on weekends, and of course, yummy lobster. Yet, my sanity still seems to escape me at times. I take the two month downer as an opportunity to catch up on work, but sometimes the depression from the DROP gets to me, and I find myself staring at the ceiling, listening to music that reminds me of happier times on warm sunny beaches....
I can't go outside....it's too cold. It snows in May here. And if it isn't snowing, it's raining. And raining, and raining. Did I mention the raining? I know it will be warm soon, maybe at the end of June it will start, but that's when the blackflies come out....they love me and feel no remorse about making me ill for a week or two with blackfly fever. I feel I am a hostage in a room upstairs, too tired to get up, too mesmerized by the five (yes five!) computer screens before me, desperately trying to find the drive to FINISH things.
Yet at least I am surrounded by those who care about me, and those I care about. The animals don't mind it here at all! Mittens has other cats to terrorize, Miphy is settling in, and the birds have free reign of the place, as I have let their wings grow in and they soar about the large bedroom....all are oblivious of the gray un-parting skies.
Furthermore, the satellite internet isn't so great in the rain. I won't even get into our frustration surrounding that issue! I REALLY need to find out if we are still on contract with them. If not, there may be better options now! Thank goodness Telus came out with the same kind of 'unlimited wireless internet' deal as in the US, even if it IS $75. Canada may have hope yet. MAY being the keyword....
And so I am typing here, it is 2:30am. This seems to be dinner time for me. I go to sleep when Bryan rises for fishing at 5am. I wake up when he comes home at noon. I work nights, slowly giving way to the nocturnal insanity that some people experience when they do night shifts. But I know better times are coming, I just have to hold on a bit longer and then it's time to stay in South Port RV Park in Charlottetown. The nearest convenience store is a walk across the road instead of an hour away, and everything is a one minute drive across the bridge. I'm looking forward to the Canada Day festivities and civilization around me. But I am especially looking forward to getting back on the road afterwards, where nothing is permanent or planned too far in advance.
When I think about it, I really have nothing to complain about. I'm one of the lucky ones, and sometimes I lose sight of this fact. Both of us do. It is so true though, you couldn't appreciate the light if there was no darkness.
Like the sun and the grey skies....
1 comment:
I hit PEI around mid August (last year) it was nice fall weather then. I rambled all over the island on my scooter. I’d not like to be there in the winter though, burrrr.. It is a lovely place in the Summer, oh and Anne Shirley fell hopeless in love with me at Green Gables ;)..
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