Trippin' with Susan Straley

 Hello Again! We are still in Newfoundland and enjoying ourselves. And we are also having our thoughts turn toward Steve's New York home.  His mom is on hospice and is still joking and smiling and is focused on enjoying her moments.  We are looking forward to seeing her again. Last I wrote to you it was warm out.  We drove out to a sandy beach to go for a swim.  But as we were getting ready to park a man was waving his arms over head, standing with three other people by a dark pickup truck.  We drove over and discovered he had tried to drive out on the sand and got stuck. We gathered ropes and straps to try to pull him out.  The back passenger tire was really buried where he had tried to spin his way out.  I got on my hands and knees and used my gloved hands to dig the sand away. First try, a strap broke.  Second try, a rope broke.  I had noticed that the guy driving was just spinning that back wheel like crazy instead of trying to slowl...