When we first started living this Life we had simple plans, to travel around the country seeing all the things we had missed in our lives. Which is exactly what we did at first, travel the country, following our hearts, seeing what we wanted to see. Then things changed. Not by a sudden road to Damascus conversion, but rather by slow evolution. We realized that whenever we stopped in a locality we really liked, we found ourselves staying for a few days longer than we had originally planned, looking to learning more about the history of the area and enjoying our surroundings. We had also availed ourselves to several volunteer opportunities where we discovered that we genuinely enjoyed those types of activities.
The end result was a change in our lifestyle. Some people are daily travelers, and we on the other hand fell into what might be called, the occasional volunteer traveler. You will see from our Daily Journal which documents our past travels and from this page which reveals our tentative future plans, that volunteering on occasion has played a significant role in our new Life. Will it remain so? We don't know. What does the future hold? We know we plan to live on the road until we are no longer able, hopefully several decades in the future. For now this page shows what or where we might be going in the next year.
We have dreams to fulfill, to be able to do some costumed portrayals of historical figures, to volunteer throughout the country, to spend another summer in Europe and one in Alaska, maybe even a winter in Australia. We don't know what the future will hold, but we do know that we will embrace whatever it may be and wherever it leads us.
| January 2010 | Quartzsite, then Mexico at month end |
| February 2010 | Mexico for the rest of the winter |
| March 2010 | Mexico - perhaps Kino Bay, then Arizona at month end |
| April 2010 | California, then north to Alaska |
| May 2010 | Heading to Alaska |
| June 2010 | Alaska |
| July 2010 | Alaska |
| August 2010 | Alaska |
| September 2010 | Back to the lower 48 |
| October 2010 | Maybe New Mexico |
| November 2010 | New Mexico or Arizona or Texas or California |
| December 2010 | Either the LTVA's in Arizona and California or heading towards the Rio Grande Valley |
| 2011 | Back east, probably for the next 12 to 18 months, unless we miss the west too much |