RV Road Trips

Yes, because we do miss our family, but we’d miss our children no matter what time of year or where we are.

But, no, because even if we still lived in a house, we wouldn’t see them every holiday every year anyway.


Family Matters
We have one son who is career military. He’s been gone far away for 14 years and is currently living in Maryland. One daughter lives in Virginia, two live in Georgia, and one granddaughter lives in Seattle.

We try to get together as a family as often as possible.  Usually, we meet up somewhere -- in Texas, in California at the beach, or at a cabin in the north Georgia mountains.  But, most holidays are spent far from family members.


Christmas Holidays On The Road
We have spent a couple of Christmases having dinner with 400 other guests of a large RV resort. Each couple brings a side dish, and the resort furnishes the turkey and ham.

At the resort we were at, you were assigned to a table for 12 people, with one person designated as the “hostess” for that table. All the women met a week before the day of the meal and planned the menu and what they were going to bring. On Christmas day, we gathered in the dining room to eat together and sing Christmas carols.


Thanksgiving In An RV
On Thanksgiving, I usually cook a large chicken and some dressing, along with a couple of side dishes. I invite other people who may be camp host volunteers, or who are camping in whatever park we are in, to join us for dinner. Sometimes, one or two of our children come to visit if we are close enough -- or if they have the time off from work.

Easter Holiday On The Road
My most memorable holiday so far was when Jim and I were working in south Texas at a large resort. We had several Hispanic guys working for us in maintenance. One of them invited us to spend Easter with his family at a local park. We enjoyed grilling “fajitas” on the barbecue grill, dancing to lively Mexican music, cracking cascarones filled with confetti or flour over each other's heads, and watching the children break open the Easter bunny piñata. 

This year for Easter, we were working at a Georgia State park as volunteer camp hosts. We spent the Saturday morning before Easter hiding 700  Easter eggs, and helping clean up the area after festivities were over. On Sunday, we worked in the camp store, then went to the restaurant at the lodge for a buffet lunch with the other camp hosts. In the afternoon, each of our children called us to wish us a Happy Easter.

And it really was a Happy Easter holiday for us... on the road... in an RV.