TVC - Day 102 - Community

Our second to last Wednesday at TVC started out normally enough, but by 1100 hours TLE was not feeling well and decided to call it a day.....she has been battling a chest cold (I think), or allergies (she thinks) for several days and Wednesday it (whatever it is) got the best of her.  Usually TLE is the only one at the registration desk on Wednesdays with Duane (our manager) filling in when she goes to lunch, or it gets too busy, which, on  a Wednesday, is rare.  I asked Deb if she could come into work for a few hours in the afternoon, and she was there by 1300 hours to help.

TLE spent the rest of the day being quiet, napping, and reading.  She thought she had a fever and asked me to put my hand on her forehead to see what I thought.....well, I guess my 'fever detector' is not as finely tuned as hers is as I thought her forehead felt cool to the touch. Nevertheless, by the time I got off work at 1530 she was feeling a little bit better, or at least not worse.

The rest of my work day was pretty routine....I spent time surveying the sites in section "F", helped a couple of customers get into their sites, took some folks in the cart to look at a few potential sites for their very large RV's (one was over 70' including Class A and trailer), fixed a few leaky hose bibs, washed my golf cart and then "packed it in" for the day.

Some nomad friends (Brian and Maria..... of "The Roaming Pint" fame) we first met up with in Cedar Key, FL back in March of 2012 were in town and asked TLE and I to join them at their campsite (just behind ours) Wednesday evening for 'game night'.  Some other friends from our Cedar Key days (Debby and Bill....."Bill and Debby's Wild Ride") joined us....we played "Cards Against Humanity" for a couple of hours, laughing a lot....I was thinking afterwards that except for our decision to begin this nomadic odyssey roaming endlessly around our great country we would never have met Brian, Maria, Bill, or Debby....it's been a year since we last got together, and yet it seems like just yesterday.  I have worked on Brian and Maria's bicycles at least once a year since we first met them.....I've brought Maria's bike back from the dead more than once over that time.  In fact, most of the people we spend the bulk of our time with these days, and count as good friends, we would never have met except for this lifestyle choice.  On occasion I run into people who travel as we do and hear them complain how they feel so alone.....they have no friends on the road.....I am a little mystified by that.  Without the nomadic community we belong to traveling as we do would have lost it allure some time ago.  In the end this journey we have embarked upon is more about the people we have met, and befriended along the way.....all the places we have been are certainly very cool, but the people we have shared those places, and experiences with are foremost in our minds.

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