These past few days since I posted my departure date has been interesting. There has been a calmness of some sort in everything I did Friday at work and yesterday. My mind is not racing like it has been since October 21.
As I see more 'stuff' get packed up either for goodwill donations or the weekly trash pickup, the future picture of rolling down the highway gets clearer.
Sure, even since Thursday I have thought about "what if...", but the answer is always the same. I need to get out of here for a new stage of my life and the adventure of seeing new land, meeting new people and take the time to see things that I have been wanting to see over the years.
I have always wanted to take vacations and either re-visit places I had traveled years ago but my "workaholic" personality never let me escape. I am the type that even works the week between Christmas and New Year's and have for as long as I remember.
Still when I have scheduled long holiday weekends that lead to 3-4 days off from work, I enjoy them more than anything.
With frost on the ground here this morning and temps in the teens I can only think of cooler night temps boondocking in SW Arizona yet those daytime temps will be much different than what I am facing today or in the next few months.
I thought I might wake up with a change of mind about RVing after what happened in college basketball last night in Bloomington Indiana but I'm sitting here reading RV blogs, looking at RVs with plans today of more downsizing. See, I am a HUGE IU basketball fan (alumnus) and one of the reasons in 1995 I moved back to the Bloomington area was IU sports. Back 15 years ago, they didn't have the mobility of satellite dishes to pick up games, there wasn't BTN where you can see all the IU games that are not on ESPN or CBS.
So location is no longer a factor with my sports addiction.
From all the bloggers and full-timer's that I follow and some following me.....your pictures while you travel are awesome!!
It's amazing what happens when we put the intention out there. When people asked me what I would do if my house didn't sell - I would say - it's gonna sell before I leave so I don't have to think about an alternate plan, I repeated that often, and it sold before I left.
ReplyDeleteTeri, yes it is amazing how that works. As I got older I seemed to have forgotten how that works...sometimes. It was never a problem before, it was just the way I thought. I have had some local interest just this past week.
ReplyDeletePeople are not asking me "what happens if...", they keep asking me when I am leaving!! LOL
You have thought this thing through, and come to a decision, and now you're acting on that decision. That is the right thing for you, and you've gone about it in exactly the right way for you. I've experienced many of the same thoughts that you have, and arrived at many of the same conclusions. I really enjoy having a motorhome that we can actually drive to any destination of our choosing, and stay there until we're ready to head somewhere else. Probably won't sell the house just yet, but we certainly think about that as something for the future. A smaller place to keep up with would be much easier to deal with. One of the main things keeping us in Oregon is family. We have them all here right now, and we're grateful for that.
ReplyDeleteIf you get to Oregon, you better come to Eugene, or we'll have to track you down and find you. If we get together on the road somewhere, that's good too. We would love to meet you and the hounds. We've got a lot in common, and I know we would enjoy talking with you. Have a Merry Christmas...and we're thinking of you.
You have thought this thing through, and come to a decision, and now you're acting on that decision. That is the right thing for you, and you've gone about it in exactly the right way for you. I've experienced many of the same thoughts that you have, and arrived at many of the same conclusions. I really enjoy having a motorhome that we can actually drive to any destination of our choosing, and stay there until we're ready to head somewhere else. Probably won't sell the house just yet, but we certainly think about that as something for the future. A smaller place to keep up with would be much easier to deal with. One of the main things keeping us in Oregon is family. We have them all here right now, and we're grateful for that.
ReplyDeleteIf you get to Oregon, you better come to Eugene, or we'll have to track you down and find you. If we get together on the road somewhere, that's good too. We would love to meet you and the hounds. We've got a lot in common, and I know we would enjoy talking with you. Have a Merry Christmas...and we're thinking of you.
Russ ... I look forward to meeting sometime. I spent 10 years up at Whidbey Island, NW of Seattle and use to make the trip to Eugene when the Dawgs played the Ducks in football. Eugene is so much like Bloomington Indiana and what might be surprising, outside of Bloomington on Lake Monroe, the highway crossing the water looks just like the PNW.
ReplyDeleteI an almost feel the campfire and meeting somewhere on the road. It's those feelings I have of traveling that has made me unable to shake the urge of RVing.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Russ ... I look forward to meeting sometime. I spent 10 years up at Whidbey Island, NW of Seattle and use to make the trip to Eugene when the Dawgs played the Ducks in football. Eugene is so much like Bloomington Indiana and what might be surprising, outside of Bloomington on Lake Monroe, the highway crossing the water looks just like the PNW.
ReplyDeleteI an almost feel the campfire and meeting somewhere on the road. It's those feelings I have of traveling that has made me unable to shake the urge of RVing.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
a picture is really worth 1000 words. We could write all day about the country we drive through but it wouldn't convey the detail that 1 picture can.
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