Life on the Road

Last Friday, we drove to Lebanon, CT where we met up with our old and dear friends, Janet and Greg Sinnott, and began a weeklong odyssey on wheels.

Having decided that we needed to break free from our quarantined prison, while not further exposing us or others to Covid risk, we purchased a 19 foot RV that drives and parks like a FedEx delivery van but provides all the needed amenities to support travel outside of hotels and planes. During the past week, we visited 10 states, drove along the Blue Ridge Parkway, followed migrating geese along the Chesapeake, overnighted in fields at wineries, and saw the world at ground level in all its glory. Fall shared sparkling, sunny days and crisp evenings filled with more stars than we remembered, gazing toward as children and pointing out to our children as we dreamed of the vast world above us.

Deb with our road-home in Fincastle, VA as evening guests of Virginia Mountain Vineyard.

This morning we awoke to the sounds of angus cattle in the distant pasture and, thankfully, no roosters (Anne...!). We will make the drive toward Newburgh, NY for our final night at Gardiner Brewing (they promised live music and a great food truck) before heading home to Yarmouth, ME and bidding farewell to our co-conspirators and support team on Sunday morning (a plot is afoot for steamed Maryland crabs to be ‘smuggled’ across state lines).

Parked next to Crow Vineyard’s Barbera vines (Kennedyville, MD).

Friday’s sunset from our “campsite”.

We are grateful for your prayers, notes, calls, and expressions of support; for the impulse to join Harvest Hosts (Thank you, Emily!), and for the anticipation of memories yet to be made with all of you. We will bring the festivities to you, allowing for safe interaction during these times.

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Our love to all of you. Please be in touch.

High atop the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, NC.

Disclaimer: we always wear KN95 masks and keep two bottles of sanitizer in the van cabin, we exit any venue with non-maskers loitering, and we lived the week largely outdoors or in our bubble. LEAVE NO TRACE.