My World is Shrinking. And That's OK.

Connie Bennett said:
@Beth Gallagher you are far from alone. I’ve been like that for many years. I bought my 2002 Saturn brand spanking new. There’s a reason why it only has 80,000 miles on it. I said it was my retirement car and when I retired I wasn’t coming off this hill except to go to the Feed store & the grocery store and I meant that.

Thankfully, for me, I live very rural and I live in an Ag county so when I do go into town, it’s relatively painless and the food places serve up quality and quantity for the money spent . In my case, it is cheaper for me to buy something ant one of the restaurants and bring it home because the portions are so large I can generally get 2 to 3 meals out of one serving.

My world gets smaller because my arthritis is not getting any better. It slows me down - it tisses me off - A lot. By the time I am done doing one thing, I am almost wiped out for the rest of the day. I might just as well have unloaded 125 bales of hay off the wagon for as tired and wore out as I am.

Still-in-all, while I love my dogs, my horse is my purpose to keep moving, no matter how much it hurts.
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I thought there for a minute I was talking, while looking into the mirror ....:(.... Alot of people just do not understand that arthritis not only hurts, and limits mobility, but also just drains energy.
 
I am so happy where I am, why travel? Hubby and I got to where we took bus tours because neither of us could stand the other's driving and we could enjoy the view out the windows en route. That was maybe 10-15 years ago. Before that we drove out to Maine to take a schooner trip before going to my brother's birthday in Monroe NY stopping along the way.
Kind of the end of fun travel's. Now I might go out to visit daughter and family.
The stress of air travel at this point is way too much bother for me.
 
Mary Stetler said:
I am so happy where I am, why travel? Hubby and I got to where we took bus tours because neither of us could stand the other's driving and we could enjoy the view out the windows en route. That was maybe 10-15 years ago. Before that we drove out to Maine to take a schooner trip before going to my brother's birthday in Monroe NY stopping along the way.
Kind of the end of fun travel's. Now I might go out to visit daughter and family.
The stress of air travel at this point is way too much bother for me.
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Try a train!
 
Good morning to all- We've looked into taking AMTRAK, but the costs were three to four times higher compared to commercial air and took three days compared to seven hours...

I'd love to do a multi-day train trip with sleeper cars, but the cost... too much.

you all be safe and keep well- Ed
 
I would love to do a train tour as well, and they have some amazing ones. We can’t go away and leave the dogs and cats or even our house , so any kind of vacation or tour is not possible for us at this point in our life.
I went to visit my daughter and took the train from Idaho to Richmond Virginia (she was stationed at Ft. Eustis at that time), and I totally loved the trip there and back.
Part of the way, she was able to get me an upgrade and I even had one of the little rooms for sleeping, but even sleeping in the regular train cars worked fine for me.
I spent a lot of time in the Vista Dome observation car and looking at the scenery as we went across the country. I carried protein bars along with me, so I could just buy coffee and have a protein bar as a meal, plus they had snacks that were available, too.
 
Ed Delabama said:
Good morning to all- We've looked into taking AMTRAK, but the costs were three to four times higher compared to commercial air and took three days compared to seven hours...

I'd love to do a multi-day train trip with sleeper cars, but the cost... too much.

you all be safe and keep well- Ed
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I have taken a lot of train trips, and the costs are not bad. If you can use a sleeper car, the meals are provided and you meet some very interesting people at meals. The bedrooms are much more expensive, but if you need one they are handy. The sleepers, if you have two people, requires that one person be able to climb to the top bunk. I can no longer do that, but my wife can still do that. You have to get the system down, but if you talk with experienced train travelers, they can give you tips. Most of the good, regularly-scheduled trips are west of the Mississippi, but there are special trains for leaf viewing and such. There are senior discounts on many of the trains and off-season discount sales as well.
 
Does anyone get 'car sick' on a train? I have terrible car sickness and have often wondered if a train would be miserable. I can't do cruises at all.
 
I like traveling by train, particularly with a sleeper car, although they have gotten smaller and more compact over the years. My first trip by train was when I was in my twenties. My brother flew one of his sons, who was eleven at the time, from Michigan to California to spend a month with me there, and we both traveled by train, in a sleeper car, from Anaheim, California, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where my brother picked us up.

That sleeper car was much larger than the ones they have now, and this was a time when every town of any size at all had a train station, so the train stopped often along the way. It wasn't a fast trip, by any means, but it was an interesting and comfortable one. I really enjoyed seeing sights that you wouldn't see traveling by car, along with the backyards in the worst parts of every town the train went through.

Since then, we've taken the train from Portland, Maine, to Washington, D.C. a few times, once in a sleeper car, and those were much faster trips. However, while AMTRAK does run to and from Portland, often when you book a train from Portland, you end up going by bus to Boston.
 
Most of the sickness I have seen on trains is when riding backwards, i.e., facing the back of the train. It is uncommon these days a most cars are direction oriented, but if it happens, the seats on some cars can be reversed except in the sleepers when one person is always facing backwards when seated.
 
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