It was the trip of a lifetime. Mom and Dad said they would like to see the fall colors up north. We agreed that would be a good idea and rented an RV for a week.
That was ten years ago this week. Mom has been gone since 2007. She died in January of that year. Dad turned 91 in April of 2012 and lives on Mom's home farm in Wisconsin. His home farm is just around the corner and he loves living in the neighborhood where both he and Mom grew up. Ed and I, well, we were ten years younger back then.
I guess that we had an inkling of Mom's oncoming dementia. There were constant signs of it that we could not avoid as we travelled together for a week. But, oh, did we have a good time! We played games at night. We cooked good food. We saw the grandeur of fall color in the northern forest. We savored the northern lights.
I had a digital camera, maybe a 2 or 3 megapixel wonder, back then. It was enough to document the travel. Now, after ten years, these images tell a story of travel and family and fun.
I'm going to document the trip in five blog posts. Join me this week as I reflect on that long ago trip in October of 2002.
Tomorrow's blog post: Monday -- Wisconsin Farm to J.W. Wells State Park
Copyright 2012
Wanda Hayes Eichler
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