WILL NOT BE THE SAME

[John_374351878]

I really enjoyed reading the posts on this forum and decided to write a few words.

My wife and I had many an happy, enjoyable holiday in our VW camper. Sadly, (as happens to all of us) she died almost 4 years ago. It has been said that happiness shared is happiness doubled. Thats' the way it was for us.

I am 82 now and took the notion to buy a two berth towing caravan lately and spent 3 nights, plus 4 nights, 2 weeks later at Tollymore Park, Newcastle, with my son who is very keen on caravanning.

My cat took off on our first visit and survived 3 nights of frost. She came back and survived 2 weeks in the open, and came back again. A tough cookie!

I feel that we are only on loan to one another. So all you husbands and wives, please appreciate what you've got. Be kind to each other. Treat your wives with tenderness. That will do for now.

 

[Chaps]

Welcome to the forum John.

Sorry to hear of the sad loss of your wife but glad that you are still managing to get out and about.

We too feel that you need to appreciate what you've got as you never know how long you've got left. The Mum of a very close friend of ours has recently has to make the extremely difficult decision to allow her husband to go into a nursing home as he has dementia and alzheimers disease. He's only in his 60's and they thought they'd have many years of retirement to look forward to. Fortunately, they've travelled quite a lot so at least our friend's Mum has lots of happy memories and few regrets.

May you have many more happy years of touring left.

 

[sarahmc]

Hi John, well done for getting back on the horse so to speak. I'm sure your wife would be proud of you for venturing out again. I agree with you, you are right about appreciation of each other. Our holidays in our van with the kids are their memories for the future and it's families that count. I think that your son will also be pleased to know that you are having a good time whilst with him. Families can get so disjointed sometimes. Hope you have many more trips

Best Wishes

Sarah

 

[Chaps]

You're so right about kids' memories for the future Sarah. Claire was brought up caravanning and has many, many fond memories of spending loads of quality family time in our little Sprite Alpine. Sadly, Claire's mum died when Claire was only 17 but these memories of happy times will live on forever and are being brought back to mind now we have our own caravan. Hope we can recreate these for our 3 boys.

It's nice that John is spending time with his son - we're also expecting to spend more time with Rob's parents as they have a motorhome and will be spending some of our holidays with us. Again, creating happy memories for us all.

 

[jennifer_374227268]

Hello John, its great you have decided to keep at the caravaning, it will be good for you and your son. Life is short and we should enjoy the most of it while we are fit and able. Tollymore is lovely we have been there a few times, we'll look out for you next time we are there. Take care and have lots of great trips out.

Many regards Keith & Jenny