First Day of our New Lifestyle

This is the first day of our new life living on the road.  We packed up everything that we absolutely thought we couldn't live without and said "adios Viejo amigo" to our home and farm.  We thank the Lord for allowing us to live and work there for all these years.  It's been most excellent!  After working our entire lives, we are able to retire comfortably and live a different kind of lifestyle--and by "different kind of lifestyle" I mean owning nothing more than a motorhome and a jeep!  Yeah, you thought I was going to be all "uppity" didn't you.  No, my friends, as Mike and I try to tell our family, stuff is way over rated.  When you die, what's going to happen to all that stuff you have accumulated?  That's right, your kids are going to have an estate sale and get rid of it all.  They don't want that stuff!

So we sold everything we own except for the motorhome and the jeep.  We have most generously donated to Portland Cares over the past couple months.  (All those "church clothes"--gone! )  We don't dress up anymore.  We wear shorts and jeans--mostly shorts--and tennis shoes and flip flops.  That's our wardrobe.  It's cheaper to dress that way too.  We aren't cheapskates but we don't waste money on unnecessary things, either.  We cut out unnecessary expenses in order to live as we do.  WE LOVE OUR LIFE!  We're happy!  We're living our dream and we're having a ball doing it.  We laugh a lot.  We don't have to get in a hurry, ever.  We can take our time and stay as long as we want wherever we want.  For instance, today we left the house (for the last time) at 9:30 this morning.  By 2:00 PM we were finally on the other side of Charlotte Pike in Nashville.  For real!  There was a bad wreck that totally shut down the interstate for hours.  We sat there for over 3 hours then had to be detoured off and around.  I feel for the people in the wreck. 

It was around 8:00 PM by the time we arrived at our first rv park.  We are all set up and showered and kicked back in our recliners.  The name of this park is Tom Sawyer RV Park.  We are in West Memphis, Arkansas.  This is a very nice park with 100 rv slots.  We had a pull through which makes it easy to park.  We are not on the water but we're only here overnight.  This place is full!

Tomorrow, we will be going to Little Rock, Arkansas where Mike was stationed while in the Air Force.  We will be there a few days.  I'll let you know how that goes.