On the road again

It's Memorial Day weekend and the weather is conditional on your location. On the mid-atlantic coast it is one of the best Memorial day weekends we've had in years. If you are in the heartland you have your heart in your mouth as tornados rip through the country side. The west has it's usual fire season and the northwest it's late snows. Whatever you want, weather wise, you can have if you're a MHer and plan ahead.

This weekend we traveled to Forest Lake TT. Some 550 or so miles from home as we make our way towards Winston-Salem NC. Never have I seen traffic so light on the highways except about fifteen years ago when we traveled I-85 to Duke. This time it's not traffic patterns it's gas prices. Almost $4.00 per gallon. I feel that has kept most people closer to home base. For us it's bring home base with you.

What do you do on these long drives when you are the co-pilot and DW is at the wheel. I decided to play a few children's games. I counted the road pizzas for awhile and watched the feathered cleaning crews have a raw meat cook out. That got boreing since there wasn't enought roadside meals to keep my interest. Kids are like that. So I switched to counting MH vs trucks. Now that was interesting. For the first time I noticed more MHs on the road than the big boys. Sometimes as many as two to one. For the first time we MHers are king of the road.

I expect all this to change as the night draws closer and delivers must be made to the freight stations on Tuesday. But I do know that the cost of fuel is taking it's toll on the trucking industry. Jevic, a company near our stationary home has been in business for almost three decades. We would look at their trucks on the road all across the country. No more. They just went belly up. Bankrupt with, I'm sure, fuel being the nail in their coffin. On the road I spotted a trucking company building with a big banner announcing "Space Available". Lifestyle changes caused by a crisis's our leadership knew was coming and did nothing to change our dependency on fossil and foreign fuels.

The Forest Lake TT is loaded this weekend with members and guest. Tomorrow we will see if people are staying longer in one place to cut down on their fuel expense. MHers will probably not adjust their lifestyle but will adjust their budgets. I've now adjusted mine to $5.00 per gallon for travel purposes. Life and MHers roll on