Because We Can - Fulltime RV'ing

 

What Did We Do Today?

July 18 Sunday

Nothing doing

There are a number of different ways to approach RV travel. There are the weekenders, the vacationers, the extended travelers and the full timers. Each has a distinctive style, and each is different. Take today for example, the forecast was for rain throughout the day, and for once the weatherman was right, so we did what we would have done when we lived in our stucco house.

That meant a day of doing nothing. We simply stayed home, reading, surfing and cooking. For the vacationer it would have meant doing whatever was on the day's schedule, and that makes us glad that we finally had the courage some four and a half years ago to chuck the 9 to 5 rat race and join the ranks of those who travel at their own chosen speed.

The only thing we did today worth mentioning was done by Linda. She made some brownies, though the suggestion was implanted in her brain by me talking aloud about how good the smell of fresh baked bread would be on this day. That brought an immediate response from Linda questioning why would we want bread, did I want her to get fat, what were we going to do with it, and where would we keep it. My reply that I was thinking that it would smell great as it baked, seemed to in no way mollify the little woman.

It had to have planted some kind of seed because a little while later I noticed she was scanning our South Beach Cookbook collection, which was followed by the request for the Splenda, our sweetener for baking which is kept in the cabinet next to where I sit. The end result was a pan of chocolate Brownies topped with Ghiradelli Bittersweet Chocolate Chips.

The only other happening of consequences during the day was when the power went out. Not once, but twice. The first time was early in the morning, shortly after I got up. The lumber company in the back of the coach was busy at the time sawing wood so that may have contributed to the outage. Unfortunately my state of dress or undress, depending on ones point of view, precluded my going outside to check any error message on our surge protector. When it happened after dinner, I was able to dash outside, dodging the raindrops, and check the readout which showed it had been a low voltage situation. We are so glad we installed the surge protector, as it certainly does its job.

So, as I write this, the day is quickly receding into the history books, it being a prime example of the fact that as fulltimers we are not on an endless vacation. Rather we live our lives the same as anyone else, it's just that the location of what we call home varies as we see fit. Life is certainly good.

 

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