As soon as we received confirmation of the sale of our previous home, we decided to visit our children in Virginia, South Carolina and Indiana. I am still able to drive myself, and the weather was still very warm, actually unseasonably warm: 30 c for the middle of October! We took along my power wheel chair, a manual ramp (which is quite heavy) and my walker and two bipap machines and two batteries. Mary had to load the van with all this equipment, (and more), but as soon as the wheels started rolling, she could take a break and rest. We left on Tuesday October 9th, stayed overnight in Pennsylvania, and visited the historic town of Fredericksburg on Thursday.
We arrived on Thursday at Nick and Anita’s place in Suffolk, Virginia. We took three days to travel there, so that we would not be rushed. We traveled over Buffalo to Pennsylvania and that area was quite nice with fall colours. The last leg to Virginia was mostly busy highway driving with lots of traffic congestion, stop and go traffic, particularly around Washington D.C. We got there as rush hour started, and it took us quite a few hours to just get past Washington. We finally got to Nick and Anita’s, a little later than we had planned. We were very happy to see each other. Nick And Anita were married last July and we had not seen them since their wedding day. We could, for the first time, see their beautiful home. As plans are now, Nick and Anita will likely be moving this coming summer, so that he can commence studies for his Ph.D.
