As Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash would say

“On the road again”

“Goin’ places that I’ve never been”

“Seein’ things that I may never see again”

“And I can’t wait to get on the road again”

Well, that’s us, after a very busy three weeks we are back in the RV and have just set up ‘home’ at Whistler in the Rocky Mountains.

“Don’t start there, they need to know where we have been for the last three weeks”, “I know, I know, I’m just getting to it”, “Shhh, I can hear someone is reading the blog, get on with it”, “Ok”

Right, we suppose we had better tell you what we have been up to for the last three weeks.

Well after just four days in Vancouver, Canada, we jumped on a plane – “We didn’t ‘jump’, we walked on”, “I know, ‘jumped’ is just a figure of speech”, “Grrr, go on then”.

Where were we, oh yes, we had just ‘jumped’ on the plane to fly to the UK and as soon as we took off, we made the ‘bed’ and settled down to try and sleep for most of the 9 ½ hour flight with only limited success – as usual!

When we arrive at Heathrow, our son Steve was there to pick us up and take us home – yippee!

There were several reasons why we wanted to go home, half way into our ‘big’ trip, first and foremost was to see all our family and secondly to celebrate (or drown our sorrows) a 70^th Birthday – ok, we know full well that in all our photos we don’t look at day over 69, but that’s because all our photos have been ‘photo shopped’

A few days at home running around seeing family and friends, then it was time for the 70^th Birthday Party, which started at 2:30pm, with drinks, then afternoon cream tea, then more drinks, music and dancing.

Around halfway through the evening our birthday boy succumbed to ‘Jet Lag’ (or drink!!!!!) and started to get very sleepy, so we made him comfortable and carried on with the party, as it seemed such a waste to stop too early.

The day after the Birthday, we set off back to London, to catch a flight to Venice for three days with our son Steve and his wife Louisa (it was a Xmas present from them last Xmas, that we were only just taking)

Fortunately, it is only a short 2 hour flight from London to Venice and we arrived at our hotel, after catching a water taxi from the airport straight to the hotel door, mid-afternoon and went straight out to explore the city and see if Italian Wine was as good as it is supposed to be – Hic.

After three fantastic days taking in the sights, sounds and atmosphere of this wonderful place, it was time to catch our water taxi from the hotel back to the airport for our flight back to London.

Then one more day at home before setting off again to Heathrow and the flight back to Vancouver, where we spent the night in a hotel, before driving back to the RV on the RV Park for a few days R&R, ready to continue on with our ‘big trip’

In all, on the couple of weeks since leaving Vancouver, we had flown 11,000 miles and done about 500 road miles, so we definitely needed the R&R!!

But of course, we couldn’t sit still for long and explored Vancouver and one of its suburbs called White Rock before setting off tomorrow to spend the Canadian 150^th anniversary weekend of the formation of Canada in a place called ‘Whistler’ – more on that in the next blog.

“Is the Whiskey and G&T poured yet?” “Yes, of course it is” “Yum, Yum”.