A warm welcome back to another of our regular contributors, Syd Blackwell, with his third entry in this year's Travel Highlights Competition.
VIBRATIONS
Winter driving in northern British Columbia is tough. My whole body was tingling. I found a motel. I just wanted to flop on the bed for an hour. I switched on the room light and then I saw it! I had a Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed ! I´d never seen one. However, I didn’t need more motion. I just flopped on the bed. And it started vibrating! Then it stopped. I got up, checked the bed, checked the coin box, and then warily lay back down. Nothing happened. Later, at the restaurant, everyone was talking about the small earthquake.
Winter driving in northern British Columbia is tough. My whole body was tingling. I found a motel. I just wanted to flop on the bed for an hour. I switched on the room light and then I saw it! I had a Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed ! I´d never seen one. However, I didn’t need more motion. I just flopped on the bed. And it started vibrating! Then it stopped. I got up, checked the bed, checked the coin box, and then warily lay back down. Nothing happened. Later, at the restaurant, everyone was talking about the small earthquake.
Syd Blackwell
I was born in a little ski town that used to be a gold mining town in the mountains of southeastern British Columbia. I also lived on the coast, on Vancouver Island, in the north, and even in northern Alberta for a decade. I visited every province and territory in Canada, and more than 40 other countries. I was an educator, an innkeeper, and an assisted living facilitator. My life was rich with experiences before I left Canada less than two months before my 61st birthday.
Uruguay, has been our home for more than a decade. My wife and I share our home with our five dogs. And quite a few visitors. We have found time in our retirement to do things we never seemed to find time to do before. I have found time to be a writer and an artist. Both give me great pleasure. We have continued to travel, particularly in South America.
I was born in a little ski town that used to be a gold mining town in the mountains of southeastern British Columbia. I also lived on the coast, on Vancouver Island, in the north, and even in northern Alberta for a decade. I visited every province and territory in Canada, and more than 40 other countries. I was an educator, an innkeeper, and an assisted living facilitator. My life was rich with experiences before I left Canada less than two months before my 61st birthday.
Uruguay, has been our home for more than a decade. My wife and I share our home with our five dogs. And quite a few visitors. We have found time in our retirement to do things we never seemed to find time to do before. I have found time to be a writer and an artist. Both give me great pleasure. We have continued to travel, particularly in South America.
