90-year-old Woman Travels With Her Dog In The US

An elderly widow who was diagnosed with cancer by the doctors decides to get into a motor home and tour the United States with her dog named Ringo. Sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie, right? However it is a very real story. The protagonist is called Norma and she is a 90-year-old woman who travels with her dog, her son Tim and her daughter-in-law Ramie through the North American territory.

From Pain to Hope: The Story of Norma, Ringo, Tim and Ramie

Two days before her husband Leo died, the old woman was detected a tumor mass, probably located in the ovaries or uterus.

Possible treatment was surgery, followed by radio and chemotherapy sessions. Faced with this prospect, Norma chose to hit the road and get to know her country.

That is how he got on the trailer with which his son, his daughter-in-law and the poodle Ringo had already been traveling a good part of the United States. And since then, Norma and the dog became inseparable.

Benefits of having a pet

Knowing that there are multiple benefits that living with pets bring to people and that they can be summarized in that those who own a pet are healthier and happier individuals. But in the case of older adults, these beings also become largely responsible for keeping them away from loneliness and depression. Having a dog helps us to:

• Let’s be more resistant to allergies.
• Let’s keep blood pressure under control.
• Let’s reduce stress.
• Let’s find the motivation to do physical exercise.
• Let’s regulate cholesterol levels.
• Let’s reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
• We have a better chance of surviving a heart attack.

And everything seems to indicate that the company of Ringo and her family is an excellent medicine for Norma who, despite all the years she has on her and the illness she was diagnosed with, is happy and whole with her new life.

Itineraries of the old woman who travels with her dog in the USA

This little woman of 46 kilos and 1 and a half meters tall who travels with her dog, her son and her daughter-in-law, has traveled, in recent times, much of the North American territory. Among the many tastes that were given, we can highlight that:

• Visited the National Monument   Mount Rushmore   ( South Dakota ).
• Flew in  hot air balloon ( Palm springs , Californ ia).
• In Florida f ue to Disneyland   and the Castillo de San Marcos.
• Saw bison in the national park  Yellowstone.
• Met the   Grand Canyon of the Colorado.

In addition, in New Orleans he toured the National Museum on World War II. There they received her with honors, since Norma had worked as a nurse during that war conflict.

The truth is that his story and that of Ringo went viral in recent times on social networks, from this video that was seen around of 2 million 200 thousand people.

Driving Miss Norma and her poodle Ringo

But the story of this old woman who travels with her dog takes us back to the cinema. At the end of the ’90s a film entitled Driving Miss Daisy became famous , which in Spain was known as Paseando a Miss Daisy , and which earned him or n Oscar to its protagonist, the actress Jessica Tandy, who was around 80 years old at the time.

The adventures of Norma, Ringo and the rest of their family are uploaded on the Facebook Page “Driving Miss Norma” (Driving Miss Norma), which has almost 400 thousand followers.

Surely Ramie, the daughter-in-law of the nonagenaria , you will have many more stories to tell us about this smiling old woman , the dog Ringo and the travel in North America.

Image source: Driving Miss Norma’s Facebook.