My bride and I have been on a marvelous journey since we both retired from our full-time jobs more than a decade ago. The end of my career came suddenly; my bride chose to end her working life on her own.
We have been “living the dream” ever since. Well, this week our journey into retirement took a startling and dramatic new turn.
Our recreational vehicle travel time came to an end. We sold our RV after hauling it on a two-week excursion to the Pacific Coast. We visited friends and family along the way. We had a blast. We were comfortable in our downsized travel trailer.
But … a couple of issues emerged along the way. The trailer wasn’t working quite the way it was supposed to work. What did we decide while on the road? We decided (a) we are too old to deal with these niggling issues that keep cropping up and (b) that neither of us was skilled enough to repair these problems on our own.
We decided before we arrived at our California destination that the trip on which we had embarked would be our final one in an RV.
We’ll keep traveling. The difference will be that we intend to stay in hotels along the way, or at RV parks that offer cabins, or with friends and family scattered across this great land.
We’re taking a philosophical approach to this decision. We owned three RVs: two fifth wheels and a travel trailer. We took all of them to both ocean coasts, along the Gulf Coast, to the Great Lakes, throughout the Great Plains, over the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Range, the Appalachains and we saw the western half of Canada.
We had a great run. We saw many places and had countless joyous experiences. It is now time to do something else. We have decided to take another leap of faith.
Where will our journey take us? That remains to be determined. However, we are confident we’ll know it when we get there.
We are still living the dream.
I do admire the way you two are Living the Dream! Peace and blessings to you, my friends.