Samaritans

This trip was made so much better by special friends along the way.

• Steve & Jen, relatives of ours, opened their home to us and were absolutely outstanding hosts during our vacation. They moved south and had mentioned several times that we were more than welcome to head down for a visit. We decided it was time to take them up on the offer. They opened there home to us and shared their knowledge from previous trips to NYC. Best of all, I got to know them as a family and we shared some important suppertime and evening conversation which has rekindled the friendship. We hope to have them visit us in the summer and maybe trek to our cottage in the wilderness of Nova Scotia (which is basically the opposite of NYC).
• On our trip home we stayed with "The Porter's". We had vacationed with this family previously and share many common experiences from university years. They opened their home to us on our last night away putting us up in their wonderfully renovated overhead space overlooking the family property. We had a great night and our children met again after a year and a half apart. We shared supper and ales and some "teacher" conversation.