A Magical Mystery Tour
BY ANNI SHILCOCK S
adly, it seems the older one gets the more one is prone to mysterious aches and pains, growths and
protuberances. Some stay for a short and tolerable visit like distant relatives at Christmas, and some, like unwelcome squatters, take up residence permanently. In my case the mysterious
and unwelcome visitor was an abscess on my ankle. Why
my ankle I have no idea, and despite myriad medical ministrations, including enough antibiotics to stock a small pharmacy, it refused to go away; in fact we’d been acquainted for so long it needed some kind of identity, so I called it Adrian. And so Adrian joined the happy trio of David, my sister June, and
I, on our next “magical mystery tour” in the RV, although when I say trio, I mustn’t forget Mr. Bailey, aka my dog Mr. B, a Shih Tzu, probably more enthusiastically enamored of RV travel than any of us. David, had planned our route, telling us only that warm clothing
was required, so armed with thermal underwear, fleeces, blankets and heavy sweatshirts, which required a special shopping expedition, we set off into the unknown. Te first day, we wound our way through a slalom of cones, dividing
lanes of highway work, bridge constructions, passes blasted through mountains, and signs telling us to “Slow down, my Mummy works here” as indeed she did, holding up stop signs in her neon yellow jacket.
Mr. Bailey welcoming my sister June into the RV.
Brushstrokes of colour swirled past the
windows, the lavenders of naked trees, the russet reds of diseased pines peppered amongst healthy green survivors, and the somber grey and white of snow-capped peaks that loomed over our parking site in Banff, the first mystery stop of our tour, where, enclosed by a steely wall of mountains, we parked behind the other campers lined up down parallel roads, in starting block formation, ready for an RV relay race.
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