Gathering

(For the next few weeks we will be in New England, mostly doing family things.  If you, dear reader, would like to hear about our family activities, keep reading. Otherwise, we will be back on the road toward the end of January.)

I think we have acquired more stuff since we have arrived in Rhode Island than we have in the Airstream, and all this stuff had to be moved from Rhode Island to Danvers, Massachusetts, today. We loaded must of our stuff into the car last night but the odds and ends that were left that we brought down this morning, filled the back of the SUV. It's a good thing we are used to driving using only the outside mirrors and don't have to depend on using the rear-view mirror. 

We drove to Providence for a 9:30 appointment where I noticed that everyone in the waiting area was engaged with their cell phone. A real sign of the times!

We got up to Danvers by 1 pm and checked into our new Residence Inn which is designed with separate buildings and upper and lower units. We are in an upper unit and since there is no elevator or luggage cart, we had to carry all our stuff, piece-by-piece, up the stairs -- in the rain. Then it was off to Logan Airport to pick up Peter and Vivian.

Logan has a neat cell-phone lot where you can be, for a maximum of 30 minutes, while you wait for your passengers to off-load and pick up their luggage, then call you so you can just drive up to the Arrivals and pick them up. It was wonderful to see Vivian and Peter; it has been almost one year since we last saw them.

The drive from the airport up to Danvers took 1 1/2 hours and looked liked this.