While I have two websites about my fulltime RVing lifestyle - MaliasRV.com and MaliasMiles.com - I started this blog to write about aspects of my life not necessarily related to my travel dreams.When I was at my brother’s house in SC in April, I stayed in their guest room one night and above the bed was this framed picture of my daddy. My daddy, his Army medals and flag that draped his coffin when he died in April, 2002 This was a gift to my brother from [...]
Johnny and Lois had taken my mom to Swan Lake before when my Aunt Wilma was visiting, so I was glad they wanted to return while I was here. It’s definitely my kind of place as swans are some of my very favorite creatures and here is the only place in the world where you [...]
Mom started her day with her own Easter basket and she looked every bit as excited as any little kid on Easter morning! Definitely the most direct path to my mom’s heart is chocolate, with a few “peeps” thrown in to really help her diabetes! Oh well, as she says, “If I can’t have my [...]
I’ve been thinking about all the changes that both me and my mom have gone through since she moved to SC in January and since I left Austin on the 12th. She still says what she misses the most is seeing the kids growing up (and of course getting cuter and cuter). I know that’s [...]
I feel like such a wuss today because here it is only 2 days on the road and I’m tired and got a bit stressed yesterday, so I’m taking the day off already! Nothing really major and I got to Baton Rouge okay, but once I arrived at the campground and unhooked my car, it wouldn’t [...]
Wow – I’m actually sitting in my RV and it’s NOT parked in Austin! It’s been so long since I could say that… but really I don’t know if I’ll be totally convinced I’m really fulltime RVing again until I get past Louisiana at least. The only trips I’ve taken since I landed in Austin [...]
That’s the screaming question in my head these days as I’m getting me and the RV ready to travel again. That’s what I ask myself when I get that anxious feeling in my stomach as I’m researching routes and places to stay, initially for the stay in SC, and then for the summer in Michigan. [...]
On a practical level, I’m working on the details to get mom moved to my brother’s house in South Carolina. Just getting to that decision was pretty tough. But the most consistent thing we’ve been told by the pros about mom’s condition since the last round of hospitalizations, skilled nursing and physical therapy, is that [...]
Mom was released from the hospital the day before Thanksgiving. Despite an unbelievable amount of tests and examinations from all kinds of doctors, basically they can’t explain why she is so weak, dizzy and unsteady on her feet so much of the time, or why she fell back and hit her head. One doctor’s words [...]
I used to laugh at Denny Crane calling his obviously progressing Alzheimer’s “Mad Cow Disease.” But now, dealing with my mom’s own brand of it, it’s not so funny anymore and all I feel like doing is crying. But then I’ve noticed a lot lately that I always seem to find myself either wanting to [...]