Making Friends on the Road

One of the unexpected fun parts of this trip has been the people we meet along the way. RVers enjoy chatting about where they've been, tips for viewing certain areas, and especially good tours to take. We have a lot in common with many of the people we've met.

 

We have stayed in touch with a couple we met early on, in Dawson Creek, connecting again for lunch in Fairbanks, for dinner in Homer and again possibly in Ketchikan when we get there. They winter in Florida – we'll include a visit with them when we go south this winter. They are traveling in a small trailer and have their adult son with them for the same two weeks Becky and crew were with us.

 

The folks who helped us with our flattening tire way back in British Columbia, turned up again at our camp in Talkeetna. It was fun to reconnect with them. They were two couples, two class A rigs traveling together – long time friends, one from Texas and the other from Oklahoma.

 

At camp in Homer, a lady walking her dog stopped, pointed at Kris, and said 'the painter'. She had stopped and talked with us way back in Dawson Creek while Kris was painting at the campsite. We had a lot of catching up to do. They had just come from the same campground we were going to the next day. They bought a small motor home 2 years ago to 'do' Alaska, with the intent of selling the motor home when they got home. They had so much fun that they kept the unit, and came back again this summer.

Another couple stopped and talked with us because they'd heard Kris play the Ukulele at a campsite sing along at a previous campground. They left portage and turned up as our next door neighbors in Seward. We took a boat tour together in Seward.

We will be meet with couple in Anchorage who have the same manufacturer RV as we do – we met them last fall at the 'rally' where we decided to buy such a unit. They let us crawl all over their RV and answered tons of questions for us. They were instrumental in our decision process. It will be fun to see them again, on the road.

Tom has been corresponding and posting on the Lazy Daze (the manufacturer of our unit) blog as we travel along. He got a heads up about how terribly crowded Seward is on weekends, so yesterday morning, as we were leaving the Portage campsite, we quickly decided to flip-flop the itinerary to see Seward mid-week, returning to Anchorage the following weekend. That worked beautifully and we landed a waterfront campsite in Seward. Yippee !! When we got to the camp in Seward, we found the blogger who provided the information to thank her. She, a widow, and two other single ladies were traveling together, each in their own Lazy Daze motor home.

 

We look forward to meeting more folks along the way.

Happy trails