Getting ready

Rob and I have been working diligently on readying the motorhome for travel. We've filled the galley (ship speak for kitchen), with the dishes, silverware and pots and pans from our tent-trailer, added a memory foam topper to the sleep-number mattress and put on the new sheets, built a space for the cat's litter box under one of the booth seats at the dinette and with a kitty door, too.

Last night was not a good night, however. I starting thinking "What have we done? Are we nuts for spending so much money on this thing? What if we can't afford to travel in this thing?" Then I had to remind myself about growing really old and regretting that we didn't take the chance, to make a dream come true. I had to remember what I've been saying since we made the decision to motorhome our way around the country, and I quote from 'The Shawshank Redemption:' "get busy living or get busy dying." We want to be busy living. I also want to release myself from the stuff in my life. I want my daily living to have less stuff.. I don't want to be attached to stuff anymore. I want to 'do'. I want my life to feel less complicated. I'm sure RVing will create its own set of complications, but I believe it will offer more choices than complications. The complications are likely to be mechanical, but the choices are endless. And if you don't like where you are? Check the fluid levels, stock the fridge, pull up the levelers, top off the diesel and drive out of town to the next new place.

I'm just glad there are cell phones and computers. Now that's the stuff I'm willing to keep to stay in contact with family and friends.

Our first post

Today is our grandson Jaydon's 9th birthday, which marks our first blog post. I have a lot to learn about using all the features on this blog site. As I get to know how to use them, I will post photos. I'm hoping to create something of interest that attracts others who share, or not, the same interests as us. My husband, Rob, and I are embarking on a new way of life in our retired years. Many others have done it before us, but it is new to us. We will be RVers. The name of our blog describes us as baby boomers and our choice of home as Class A, which is the type of RV Motorhome we bought. Whether you own a Class A, B, C or camp with tent and/or only backpack, all are welcome here.

I've often wondered about people in the USA who feel no interest in seeing their own country; who desire to go to far-away islands for vacation, or to see Europe or Asia or Africa or Indonesia or wherever, but never their own country. I would love to see the whole world but, before I see everyone else's world, I want to see my own. I want to see the land that my ancestors fought for in the American Revolution, the land they crossed in covered wagons, the land some immigrated to from the Azores, and the diverse beauty this North American continent offers. I want to gaze across cornfields covered with huge, blue sky; smell the Atlantic from the Maine coast; be dazzled by the October leaves of Vermont; be humbled by the monuments in Washington DC; be tanned on the beaches of Florida; feel my lungs fill from the gasp of breath I take at viewing the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, Mt. Rushmore, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, Sedona, the Mississippi, the Florida Keys, Alaska. I want to spend my mornings and evenings in campgrounds living outdoors with campfires burning, children playing, talking with strangers who become strangers no more, sharing stories, taking our time, making memories, living in the moment, now.

Join us on our journey. We just might meet you out there on the road.