By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers
A warm evening in a wooded campground somewhere in North Dakota, I think. We were invited by our neighbors, Dan and Terry, to join them around their campfire while we sipped on our BYOL cocktail. Danny was feeling good … good enough to share a revelation he had the night before:
“When I was in the Marines years ago,” Dan began, “I’d come home from a deployment and usually once or twice a week Terry would fix spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. I never really liked that dish … I was sure I told her that early on. But she still served it.”
At that point Dan sat back in his canvas chair, took another swig and continued. “I retired in ’87 and we’ve been happily married over all these years, but she still makes spaghetti and meatballs at least once a week.
“Last time she put it in front of me, I mentioned that I really don’t like spaghetti and meatballs. I looked up at her sitting across the table and saw the glare in her eyes. That’s when she confessed, ‘All these years, and you never asked. Every time I’m mad at you, I fix you spaghetti and meatballs because I know you don’t like it’.”
That sounds like a healthy marriage to me.
A note to future Alaskan and Canadian Maritimes travelers. I’ve finally gotten all the “experiential” blogs from our trips to these bucket-list lands up on my website: OnTopOfTheWorld.bz. Based on comments from readers, I’m sure you’ll find plenty of good information that will make your trip more rewarding.
I will appreciate your comments and add them to the blogs as appropriate. Also, we have been to the 49 Continental U.S. states and 7 Canadian provinces, and I’ve written articles about our experiences in all of them. I welcome your requests for me to upload information to that site about places you plan to go. What I think makes our articles different from many is the emphasis on the kinetic experiences we’ve had, rather than just reciting facts, figures and places. Input from you broadens the perspective.
We love having your aboard on our journeys. From the “Never-Bored RVers,” We’ll see you on down the road.
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