{"id":21521,"date":"2009-04-19T16:18:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T23:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2016-09-11T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T12:07:25","slug":"winding-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/winding-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Winding Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is difficult to conceive that two weeks from now, my time at Pacific Border RV Park will be over. It has been a cushy four months, but I need to go back to a less luxurious way of life!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve contacted a few RV maintenance places to get quotes for a small tune up for Miranda as well as a generator inspection. It would be brilliant if I could get all of this done in one place on May 2nd, but I&#8217;m not holding my breath. I really doubt that I&#8217;ll actually be heading north by this time in two weeks, but that&#8217;s only because I&#8217;m too lazy to take the rig out next weekend to get things done! The only problem with my having to stick around for a few days at the beginning of May is that there does not seem to be many places where I can boondock in the Vancouver area, but I&#8217;m researching my options.<\/p>\n<p>I feel so differently about the GVR than I did four months ago, even four weeks ago. It&#8217;s taken a long time, but I have fallen in love some parts of Vancouver and the surrounding area, parts where it would be possible to build a life without having to stray into the parts I dislike. The end of the road, whenever, and if ever, it comes, could very well be English Bay or White Rock or Cloverdale or North Van or a number of other locations. This region is so much more than the sum of its parts; in fact I feel that it needs to be judged by the parts of its sum!<\/p>\n<p>It has come to my attention in the last few months that, deep down, I am seeking a &#8216;forever home.&#8217; The more I travel, the more the definition of that becomes clear to me, but I have not found the place yet and I don&#8217;t think I would even recognize it until I get many thousands more kilometres behind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is difficult to conceive that two weeks from now, my time at Pacific Border RV Park will be over. It has been a cushy four months, but I need to go back to a less luxurious way of life! I&#8217;ve contacted a few RV maintenance places to get quotes for a small tune up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,4,635,11,5,1375,3,759],"tags":[853],"class_list":["post-21521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-haven","category-north-america","category-personal","category-rving","category-surrey","category-travel","category-vancouver","tag-accommodation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}