Friends leave. We’ve been here long enough to make friends; other people who stay here long enough too. Charles and Jackie, who had been next to us for a month, left to return to Alabama. Ron and Linda on the other side of Charles and Jackie for a month left to return to Dallas. Jim and Elle, our friends from Colorado, left too. Again.
We met Jim and Elle briefly at Dakota Ridge in Golden last fall. About the end of December, they showed up next to us here at Gulf Waters to check it out. Didn’t take long for them to decide they liked it and buy a lot over on the other pond. Then they left on their prearranged trip south of the border. They had signed up for a two-month RV tour to Belize. After a few weeks here, they drove to Pharr, in South Texas, to meet up with the rest of the group. Meeting the group, they decided they disliked the caravan idea as much as they liked it here. They still wanted the experience, though, so they crossed the border and headed south. They just did it by themselves. After a few days they hooked up with some traveling Canadians. They were having a good time, but their rig was a little too big for those tight Mexican roads. Several road related adventures later, they decided to come back here and regroup: leave the big rig here and go back down in a smaller motorhome to meet up with their Canadian friends and continue the tour.
So they were here again, but now they’re gone too. Again.
