Mice and men 2nd chapter

 So as I was saying.......and oh just as a note:  my ipad thinks faster then I do so sometimes it inserts the wrong word, you will just need to go with it.

I need to tell you I have a firm belief  in Karma, even more so then I do hard religion.  But for some reason as Steve and I were emailing back and forth as to me going to Spain and hooking up with him I ignored the vibrations that the " Force" was sending me.  It was April of 2013 ( not a good year for me) Steve and I decided to hook up in Aug. or Sept.  We no sooner penciled the date when things started to happen......bad things.  Boss Bob suffered an accident that needed serious surgery to correct with a six month recovery period.  Sandy had personal business that took her overseas for five weeks. We previously decided that we would sell our home while one of us was still working and relocate further north.  With Boss Bob being gone I had extra duties that needed constant attention.  The house went on the market and as soon as the sign went up a water leak necessitated that all the hardwood floors had to be restored.  We had to move out of the house and into a motel. We had to take all our meals out which caused our personal diets to go to hell. It got so bad that I felt like telling the waitress, " just surprise me".

We sold in nine days and had nowhere to go.  I hadn't even begun to pack, I had a garage full of tools and camping gear that needed to be dealt with.  Hell, between us we owned close to 500 cds that had to be cataloged and packed.

I knew what I had to do, I had to call Spain off and that was that.  With all that I had on my plate I had nothing left with which to even think about the Camino let alone the logistics of it.

The boots that I bought I would wear, ( they would need a good breaking in anyway) the rest of the equipment would go on the shelf, but where is the shelf?

I emailed Steve with the news,  " well bro it won't be this year"…...... this is no time for adventure.

If Steve was disappointed he didn't express it.  No one on the home front knew what we were up to in that from " get go" we agreed to keep it all quiet in that I didn't want to seem that I was shooting my mouth off as to " Richards big adventure" so there were no sad faces to be dealt with, and that in itself was a plus....small plus but still a plus.  Then a stroke of luck, Sandy desided to sell her bedroom set and was offered cash on the counter for all the furniture in the house.  We took the money, he took the furniture. The good luck as quick as it showed just as quick disappeared. 

It was Saturday we had to be out by Monday so the floors could be done.  The movers came took a look around and flat-footed doubled their fee.  My Mexican skills were not that good but the movers understood two things, I was pissed and they were fired.  Time was running out.  We started to call movers and found one that would work on Sunday.......for $152.00 an hour.....they were hired.

To be continued..........