Anne's Musings

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Last week, my sister and I went RV camping at a Texas state park, Choke Canyon State Park, south of San Antonio. She and I both love to travel, she much more than I because being at home on my small ranch on the road to Bend is a perpetual travel/ camping joy for me. It is work but still a great pleasure to live out in the Texas countryside.

I lived 40 years in Dallas and love everything about Central Texas! Our state is wonderful! Texas is so diverse and so beautiful! But back to RV camping.

When we learned that with COVID, it is not so easy to travel, we searched for a safer way to go and do. We decided on an RV. It has been fascinating to see how many Americans are traveling, safely usually, in RVs.

We left Texas in mid-August and went to Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and home to Texas in a period of just under six weeks. We always wore masks when, on occasion, we needed groceries or gasoline! We never were near anyone close, just maybe within 25-40 feet of our RV neighbors. It was delightful! Neighbors and their children did virtual working or learning on computers outside. We met six Chicagoans, the parents working from distance and the students doing schooling all outside at their KOA campsite. Masks were in every public place. In fact, we only encountered non-masked individuals in Texas! Obviously, non-masking was out there everywhere we went! Witness the rampant COVID today in all the states we visited! Super spreader rallies, places where individual rights took precedence over the common good and common sense, still flourish! Even so, my sister and I did not participate and came home fine so far! Who knows? Good sense and social distancing have worked thus far for us! Pray that good sense and social distancing become commonplace throughout. While my niece in Denton was sick with COVID this summer and I have lost one friend in San Saba, we have much grieved as most Americans! Again, I say, pray for good sense, social distancing, and that the vaccines make it back to us all in Texas and the Good Old USA!

Happy Safe Thanksgiving!