A Little Catch Up and Update on Virtual Friends

Well I didn't realize until I mentioned this blog to someone else that I hadn't posted anything in quite awhile. For one thing we went on a pretty long vacation this past year with our traveling buddies. The trip was long, educational, fun and sometimes a little stressful. We visited so many different places and saw so much that when I go back over our trip with friends and others I feel a little guilty that we were able to do what we did. In some ways it was good being overseas for a couple of months because I didn't have to listen to all the talking heads whether they were negative and/or positive on our Presidential election. Additionally, I didn't have to read or get into discussions with friends because we were defintley on opposite sides of the polictical spectrum. For the record, I am over joyed that President Obama was re-elected. It was very interesting to listen and hear how the Europeans thought of our election candidates as well. Enough of policts for the moment. I see that my last post was about "Virtual Friends". As I mentioned in the last post, we had 2 guest stop by and visit with us before they headed back home to the UK. Elaine and Robert have been traveling all over the US in an RV for the last 4 years. They come over here for about 4-5 months then go home and come back. They shared with us that the last couple of times they came back into the US, they were really starting to get more questioned as to if they were staying more over here in the US vs the UK. ELaine and Robert stopped by and visited us with the initial intention of first only staying with us a weekend. Since we had never met "as in person", they were not sure if they would like us and we as well were not sure we would like them. Surprise, we all clicked like we had been long time friends. Elaine and Robert ended up staying with us for a week and we had so much friend. Robert and my hubby Ron are both mechanical engineers by trade and they got along quite well. Elaine and I shared a love of knitting, however, she introduced me to spinning and I was like a little kid spping it all up. Her and I also visited a couple of knitting shops and I introduced to her some of my knitting friends as we went around to different shops. When we left, Elaine and I both got very emotional as I knew it would be a long before they would be coming by our home to see us again. They were on there last leg of their US travels in their motorhome. They were putty HaRVey up for sale and going home, as they have grandchildren now and want to spend some time with their family. However, don't be sad, we got a chance to visit with Robert and Elaine when we were over visiting the UK. They live in Newcastle and we spent 4 days with them. It was so much fun to visit their city and have them take us around. They were also a good resource for us on suggestions for us as to how we would figure out our driving itinerary around the UK. I guess I would end this by saying,just because you have grown up with someone, met people through your career and adult life doesn't mean that someone you meet over the internet doesn't come out successfully. When it is good and you have this connection makes you start to realize what a small world our planet Earth really is.