Billy Goats At My Door

Billy Goats At My Door

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

May 19, 2015. Nanaimo and Rest.

 






May 19, 2015.  Ah, after 6.5 days on the road, a three-hour ferry ride and 2300 miles - or 3700 kilometers - we are in the Living Forest Oceanside Campground in Nanaimo, BC.  We arrived here shortly after noon today, checked into the campground, then found a Mexican place for lunch.  The rest of the day is depicted in the pictures.  Oh, the pyramid looking apparatus is the suspension cables of a bridge near Vancouver.

Annie Farkley is in deep trouble.  I had lost some weight after the first of the year.  Near the end of my period of self-discipline, she told me that I looked like a prisoner of war.  She didn't like my appearance without the padding I had been carrying around in my midsection.  So now, after seven days on the road and eating everything between here and western Missouri, she evidently has a different view.  She just came up behind me, reached over my shoulder and patted my belly.  Then, she giggled for nearly two minutes.  In less than a week I have gone from a POW to Humpty Dumpty.  I hope she is happy now.  And, I guess she is.  I can still hear her giggling inside T-Harvey.

It is 7:30 PM Pacific time and the tide is in.  Earlier today, the view from our site was mud flats.  Now, there is water where there was mud this afternoon.  This is a beautiful place to unwind, as if I had been wound to begin with.  Still, it is a quiet and calming place we have found.  Tomorrow . . . well, we don't know about tomorrow. We'll figure out tomorrow, tomorrow.





2 comments:

Angie said...

I've been on that bridge!

Malachi Farkley said...

Now, I've been under it.