Philosophy

"Let those who will, buy lands and hoard money. We will have our memories, glad memories of golden experiences together." In 1915 Margaret Gehrke wrote these words about her trips around the country visiting national parks with her husband, Edward. They traveled first by train and then by Buick. Edward even built a "house-car" for their travels, but he died before they were able to take it to a national park. We are privileged to travel in our own "house-car," Venture, that takes us to such magnificent places! This lifestyle gives us such freedom.

I checked out the PBS website for the National Parks series and found out that you can create your own online scrapbook of text and images and videos--a neat feature. If you clicked the link on Margaret's name above, you were taken to my scrapbook.

Edward and Margaret Gehrke toured the national parks in their Buicks

This morning we stopped at the Mission Bell RV Resort Craft Fair on our way to Jerry Story's dance. I wanted to get some more of the removable sequined appliques I had found there last year. This time I got some red, white, and blue stars to add to my collection. It's much better than adding extra shirts. We also found a Corning Ware teapot to replace the little stainless steel one we've been using to brew tea in. The old one dripped every time we tried to pour from it.


Jerry was in the holiday spirit today--but come to think of it, he's always got that childlike joy. Ken got him to pose by the Christmas tree on state at the Peppermint Palace. Kristy was nice enough to hurry back to the hall to dance with Kathleen in the last tip so we'd have a square. She is always nervous about dancing--partly because she's usually too busy at the check in table to dance much--but she did very well.


I worked on our Christmas message today and hope to get it out tomorrow to everyone.

We played another game of Samurai tonight, this one a tie, so we're planning another round tomorrow. And of course we reviewed more photos.