This RV lifestyle is really boring. Nothing to do but . . . . . well let me give you an example of a twenty-four hour day.
We start the day by getting up anywhere between 7 and 9 in the morning. Whatever floats your boat. And regardless of the time you get up you don't eat breakfast until about two hours later. Gotta get you head together first. Now that time frame does not include coffee. That stuff is the head gathering elixir. The coffee time is blended in with computer time. Catching up on the latest news, reading email, checking finances. You know. the mundane stuff. After having done all that it is now time to decide what to wear for the day. Usually a big decision time between shorts and tee shirt or jeans and tee shirt.
If one had not decided the day before then now is the time to determine the days events. This day we will take a trip to the Cape May Lighthouse in Cape May New Jersey. Pack the necessities, snack and water, and off we go. Oh. Don't forget the camera and binoculars. The journey is about twenty-five miles from our campground traveling down route nine. Heavy traffic on the two lane route because of the summer crowed. But it relieves the boredom by allow us to find out where the shopping malls are and other places that might be of interest. We even found a Wal-Mart that wasn't listed in the book. (If you have to ask what book then you don't need to know)
So, continuing our journey, following the directions I pulled from "Streets and Trips". We got lost. Nothing new. We done that many times. When all else fails then follow the road signs. When you can find them. Unobstructed by trees and polls. It's great to swivel your neck around and reed the sign that says you should have turned on the street you just passed. But that's what they make big driveways and parking lots for. Impromptu U turns.
Well we get there. Big deal. Tall tapered cylinder with a light on top. No. I ain't walking up those steps to the top. I'm pass that age of adventure. We decided to take a walk through the trails. There are three. 0.5, 1.3, and 2.0 miles. Let spit the difference and take the middle one. We begin our walk across a newly renovated walk way that is laid with imitation wood. Helps the environment. Last longer and requires little maintenance. This turns into an unrenovated section of the path. Needs renovation badly. As we continue to trek we run out of board walks and begin walking on mother earth. She could use a little work too. Where is this stimulus money?
Well there is nothing to do but listen to the song of nature as the birds call back and forth. To take pictures of beautiful flowers and try to capture some of that beauty through the lens. To watch about two holes in the ground. about 1/4 to 1/2 inch in diameter being visited by bees. They only enter about a quarter of their body, do whatever they are doing and fly of to another or somewhere else. Tried to get pictures of them but the move so fast all I could get was a clear shot of the holes and bee blurs.
Well that was boring so after several minutes of observation I move on down the trail. Clicking of a shot or two of Red Winged Black birds aka fly catchers, A swan cleaning it's feathers and leaving a trail of down floating in the water. Don't they know we are trying to keep the waters clean?
After making this trek and being totally bored and tired we returned to the car for water and a snack. Then off on trail one. Here we watched mallard ducks preening themselves on an unsanitary platform. I wouldn't want to walk on that.
All in all it was a long hot day, and I mean hot and muggy, of boring stuff only to return to the RV and have to download and catalog the pictures we just took. Squeezed into those evening hours is dinner and a bicycle ride around the campground. Gotta get some exercise. Chow, read, chat, write, bed time. About midnight. Might awaken in the early morning, say two or three, take care of necessities, get a snake and hit the hay again about two hours later. And then a new day dawns while I go back to bed. Bored.
Everyday is not the same. You look for new and different things to see, ride the bike and or walk more and maybe take a nap during your heavy day. Any thing to kill the boredom.
To put up with this boring lifestyle one just has to love it. And I do. I love it! Love it! Luuuuv it!
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