Ice Cream Makes Everything Better.....

Well....a pint of Ben & Jerry's Chunkey Monkey and 1200 calories later, I don't know that I concur with that theory. Our friend is still dead and we're still very sad.

We got a call this morning, from a friend of ours in Williamsburg,VA that the man we came to know as "Mac", who we lived next door to last summer, was missing. A return call this evening told us that they had found him but he is dead.....our guess is that it was suicide. I don't think that it would make it any easier to comprehend if there had been some other means by which he had died.

Mac lived in a Pioneer travel trailer right behind us when we lived in Williamsburg last summer. He was new to RV'ing and he would come over and ask me questions about our rig or his. We had a fire ring and we'd make a fire at his place and go over and sit and talk with him. You learn alot about a person when you sit around a fire for hours, make smores and partake of "adult" beverages. We learned a lot about Mac, got to meet his daughter and his parents and the pooch that he adored...Rocky. Mac was a colonel in the Army and although we didn't know anything about his work (top secret stuff at the Pentagon), we knew that he was our friend and we were his. On the trip back from Connecticut on Friday, Linda texted him and told him about our wedding and he extended his "congrats" to us. He often told us that he missed our company and that he was thinking of us, as we would with him. We gave our fire ring to him, when we left, and he continued to enjoy having a fire at his site with his little pooch by his side.

My emotions are running the gamut right now....pissed off, deep sadness, remembrance, confusion and disbelief. For someone who was so "together", I can't fathom how it came to this. He was a "rock" and although he was going through some personal stuff, we were never concerned that he wouldn't come through the other side A-OK. That is why we are so blown away by this...it's senseless and a shame for his kids and those of us who cared about him. Was there something that anyone could have done to have averted this outcome ? I guess no one will know.

As I state repeatedly on here, the best part of this RV'ing lifestyle are the friendships that you make on the road. This is one friendship that will be sorely missed !