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It was a super lovely time hanging out with Peaches. The kids love him. Atreyu loves his game boy especially. Peaches pulled out his stencils and spraypaint and we painted on the busses together. It was windy, but fun. In the evening, after I put the kids to bed, we first played a round of Cards against Humanity and then 7-ft tall Dean taught us how to play Dominoes. Rashondaa beat our butts.
The next day they were ready to head on west, but I wasn’t ready to say goodbye yet and the kids agreed. So we decided to at least spend one more day with them, going back into Shamrock where I’d sat a bit a few days ago getting some fuel. I didn’t drive in the caravan as I move a little different dependant on kids, not another’s bus, and I wanted to make a truck stop shower stop. It felt great getting clean, unlimited hot water, happy kids in the water playing. We didn’t take too long and met up in Shamrock right next to the CEFCO gas station I’d sat at, in an abandoned lot. It’s very nice hanging out with like minded people and do hippie things. Peaches bought pizza dinner and fed everyone. Ben disappeared early, it seemed, but we played another round of dominoes. And I got late night stick and poke tattoos before bed. Rashondaa is the tattoo artist and after she did my “to the r-power” on my PLUR tattoo (Peace Love Unity Respect to the power of Responsibility) she asked what else I wanted so I got the rune R (Raido) on my index finger and then realized that it’s a bunch of R’s made by Rashondaa and it felt beautiful. If I could keep her around me more, I would. In fact, I feel like I could play Caravan momma role in that group. It felt super homey.
Alas, the morning came and they had to move on and we headed south from there. We stopped at a rest area to play and run the dogs before heading into Childress. I stopped at the ER. I couldn’t feel my IUD strings, they say to check for those and if they’re not there to have it checked, and that if they’re not there they could embed themselves in the uterus and lead to needing surgery. As I’m not in Montana with my Medicaid I wanted to avoid trouble and had them checked. The nurse was all “What are you doing out in a Pandemic?” Another nurse got grossed out by my urine sample. The doc was a little brash, which is understandable that she’s stressed but she was a bit rough with the check. So, maybe I should put out there that it is more than possible to be social distancing while traveling. We wear masks into business, keep hand sanitizer available, wash our hands, and upped our regular vitamin intake. I’ve already had in my mind that even post-apocalyptic I’d be a sanitation fairy long before the Covids started. I believe in cleanliness and that sanitation and awareness of germs/bacteria/etc. helped lower severity and commonness of infectious disease, so yeah, I’m not about the spreading our cooties or harbouring others’ cooties either.
At that hospital, though, a helicopter pilot came by Bugus and showed us his contraption! The kids were stoked. They got to sit in the pilots seat and look at all the buttons. The pilot said that they often show the helicopter to kids. I felt lucky that he saw us and took the chance to help educate my kids a little.
We didn’t go much further that night. Just to Walmart. There were some friendly people in Childress, though some warned about the Police presence which was pretty obviously heavy for such a small town in the middle of nowhere. We weren’t bothered, thankfully.
This morning was cold and gray and right from the start Atreyu said that it would be a movie day. I held them off of it until noon, though, doing some cleaning and producing of videos. Once the movie was on, I drove south east towards Wichita Falls. I had no intention of actually making it all the way but with the cold and long spells of nothing in between, we made it. We stopped at a Valero in Iowa Park for a little bit, and the worker, Glenda, is an angel without much disguise. Just saying. Now we’re at the Walmart here (there isn’t really many marked spots for camping right in this area, which doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist) OH! I drove by Vernon and I think that’s where we met this lovely lady at a laundromat? Was that the spot? I really wanted to pull over and figure that out, but I didn’t.
Anyway, now we’re here, had dinner, Atreyu read me a book, Galixy walked on my back. Now they’re cuddled up in bed and I’m ready to turn in, too. Most of my dishes are clean and my hallway is maneuverable. Both kids earned some stickers on their charts. I’m feeling pretty succesful. Broke, but not broke down.
No, but really, I’m super grateful for this journey I’m on. Sometimes I wonder how I got here or if I’m crazy. But it doesn’t really matter. I’m here and I have some really amazing people in my life and more amazing people in my future, too. I’m blessed, even if I sometimes feel lazy and no-good in general. As humans go, my intentions are purely for happiness in all forms. If you strive to be happy I will support you wholly, because you being happy makes me happy, as long as your happiness doesn’t inflict pain. It makes me super happy if I can help people get to a path of happiness, which definitely doesn’t take away from my joy if they found it themselves or had someone else give them a nudge. We’re not here on this earth to by filled with money. I’m here to experience it and maybe help us all get back into just being in our moments and truths. Whatever that means right now.
I’m babbling in tiredness, so I hope you share a smile today (or tomorrow or all days) I hope you’re grateful and warm.
May your dreams come true…. OH! and check out previous posts:
Matilda the Bugus 