Day 177 (Nov 9) – Is This the Last Day?

We realized about halfway through today that it could be our last day camping.  We will be visiting friends and family the next two weeks and although we may sleep in our camper some, we will be in driveways and not in a campground.  We might have one more camping day, but you never know the way we change our minds constantly.  Anyway, we kind of treated it like the last day.  We hung around the CG so the kids could enjoy the big field and the playground.  We did some school and laundry.  We shopped at one last “antique” store.  (It was more of a craft store).  We filled up the truck with gas and cleaned up our camp site.  We grilled ham and cheese sandwiches over the fire.  We all took one final shower in the really awesome bathhouse.  (Truly the best bathrooms we have had the whole trip.  There are about 8 huge individual bathrooms with showers.  The whole building is really warm and the water is so hot.  It is how we have warmed up at night before getting into bed.  It has been getting very cold (40s) and very windy in the evenings.  Longest parenthesis of the whole blog, I think!)  And we watched one final “Brady Bunch” with all four of us squeezed into our bed.

This is definitely not the last day of our trip, but it is perhaps the end of our camping trip as we have known it.  Am I sad?  I think, like most endings, it is bittersweet.  The end of one thing means the beginning of something else.  I do not regret a day of this trip, but I will be happy to be warm once again and to no longer smell like smoke.  (Though the smell might linger for a while).  At the same time, I will miss the wide open spaces where we have been living.  We all feel that six months has been the perfect length.  I feel that November is a good month to go indoors.  But just for a little while…