Because We Can - Fulltime RV'ing

Where do we plan to go?

We do have some ideas but they are always subject change

July 2010	Alaska
August 2010	Alaska
September 2010	Back to the lower 48 through Canada
October 2010	Canada, the Dakota's and heading south
November 2010	New Mexico or Texas
December 2010	Heading towards the Rio Grande Valley
January 2011	Texas or the Gulf coast
February 2011	Texas or the Gulf coast
March 2011	Mississippi
April 2011	North along the Mississippi
May 2011	Kentucky and Ohio
June 2011	Michigan or Pennsylvania, then north into Canada

 

When we first started living this Life we had simple plans, to travel around the country, making a grand circle seeing all the relatives we hadn't seen for many years. It was a case of us living on the west coast and most of our relatives living 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 in our lifestyle where we began staying longer on one place and doing more volunteering. Some people are daily travelers, but we on the other hand were falling into 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 2010 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. 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. 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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