Because We Can - Fulltime RV'ing

Where do we plan to go?

We do have some general plans but they are always subject change, mostly because that is what we do, change our plans.

November 2011	Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama
December 2011	Heading west
January 2012	Quartzite and the desert
February 2012	Arizona desert and California
March 2012	California
April 2012	California and Texas
May 2012	Texas and Oklahoma
June 2012	Oklahoma and Kansas
July 2012	Oklahoma and Texas
August 2012	Texas and Europe
September 2012	Europe
October 2012	North Africa and Europe

 

When we first started out to live this Life our plans were simple. Just make a grand circle of the country seeing all the relatives we hadn't seen for many years. That was because we lived on the west coast and most of our relatives lived back East. For our first six months that was exactly what we did. Then we noticed we were changing, 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 forward to learning more about the history of the area and enjoying our surroundings. We had also availed ourselves to several volunteer opportunities, and discovered that we genuinely enjoyed those interludes in our travels.

The end result was a change where we began staying longer in one place and taking more volunteer positions. Some people are daily travelers, but we now what might be called, the occasional volunteer traveler. You will see from our Daily Journal Archives which document our past travels that volunteering began to play a significant role in our new Life. Then things once again changed. In 2008 we had two volunteer stints early in the year, then we took seven weeks off to travel around Europe. 2009 found us without any volunteer stints, instead we spent 3 1/2 months traveling in Europe. Now in 2011 we also have no volunteer plans, but that doesn't mean we won't eventually volunteer again in the future if the time and place are right.

We have dreams to fulfill, Bob would like to be able to do some costumed portrayals of historical figures, while Linda would like to visit the Galapagos Islands, though not in the RV. We'd like to volunteer in some unique and out of the way locations, to spend more summers in Europe and more time in Mexico during the winter, plus we now have an RV lot in the Rio Grande Valley. Maybe even a winter in Australia is in the cards. 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. So little time and such a big world.

 

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