Ed Greenberg

The End of the Rainbow

When we left Van Nuys, our stated destination was Rainbow’s End, the headquarters park of the Escapees RV Club. Yesterday, we arrived at the end of the rainbow.

We’ve been here in Conroe, Texas, at the Conroe Condo, since last Friday, and after much preparation and work, had two Passover Seders. I did almost all the cooking, preparing, serving, and about half the cleanup, for our four person family, and I will tell you, I don’t know how my mom (and so many others that I know) did it.  I was beat. It should be remembered that many families go through a much more intricate and intense Passover preparation including a stem-to-stern cleaning, changing all dishes, covering countertops and shelves, and, in general, making almost everything in the house new again. We aren’t that religious, and didn’t do that, but even so, I was exhausted.

I made Matzoh Balls, Gefilte Fish, a turkey, a pot-roast, Charoses, Maror, Passover cake mixes, and all the trimmings and trappings of the holiday. I did all the shopping and planning as well. I also conducted one of the two Seders.  It was a labor of love and I’m very pleased with the result, but as I said, I was totally wiped out.

Yesterday, after all the hoopla was over, Roseann and I took all our carefully obtained and collected documents, and drove over to Livingston, Texas, county seat of Polk County. There we visited the office of Marion A “Bid” Smith, the assessor and tax collector for the county, where we registered the two vehicles, receiving license plates and stickers. We then went down to the driver’s license office at the state Department of Public Safety, and got our new Texas licenses and IDs. We have a booklet, How To Become A Real Texan to thank for being prepared, and being able to do this process in one try.

Once all this was accomplished, we drove down to Rainbow’s End, to get our mail. As I wrote above, this is the headquarters park for Escapees, and houses the mail service. Our address is here, one of many on Rainbow Drive. This is kind of symbolic. The name, Rainbow’s End, implies a destination, and we’ve been on the road heading here for the past month.  (To be fair, it was only nine days of driving. The rest of the days were stay-over days.) Nonetheless, it’s only a stop along the line, as we are not going to stay here for more than a few weeks to a month.

We’ll be here in Conroe till Monday, then over to Livingston to stay at Rainbow’s End for a week or so. Roseann has a medical visit scheduled. I have work to do, so we’ll dwell here for a bit and then move on.

Future plans are made, but as I always say, Man plans and G-d laughs, so we’ll hold these plans until we’re ready to execute on them.

(There are few photos, and I’ve been separated from my CF card reader, so we’ll catch up on those in a few days.)

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