Cathy runs an ice cream store, just outside the Road Kill Cafe. Ken says you get the biggest single scoop of ice cream of any place in the world. She stays open 5 months of the year. Once upon a time, she was very pretty and she is very careful of her appearance even now. But we talk about travel. She loves to travel but until now, she had done very little . She is a mother and a grandmother and has worked all her life as a waitress so money for travel did not come easily.
Thursday, we talked about her trip to the west. Several years ago, she married Barry, one of the men that grew up with Alan and who help Alan at the farm on the weekends. Barry works at a glass factory in Berkeley Springs. I have known Barry ever since 1973 and I was delighted to hear that Barry was willing to travel with Cathy. She told us all about her visit to Montana and the Dakotas. She loved it. She might even go to Nova Scotia. I suggested she go this fall but she commented that they can not make a big trip every year.
She asked how we do it? I jokingly said that we worked very hard in our twenties and our thirties and our forties and our fifties and sixtees so that when we got to seventy, we could vacation every day. She laughed. But Ken and I talked later that she probably never finished high school, had her children young and got no further education. And I am sure that she has no pattern of saving a percentage of everything she earns for her future travel. She is not stupid but she made early mistakes that have cost her. But now, with the help of Barry, she is beginning to travel. She is so pleased with herself.
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