Moving into the motor home again

Guess I should get things up to date here. It may take a few posts to get to current. My Mom passed away in January. Since this was Wisconsin, I planned on moving out of the apartment and hitting the road May 1. By that time some campgrounds would be open and water should be turned on. The apartment I lived in with my Mom was in a retirement community and fortunately, though we had a lease, they were very flexible so I could just leave whenever as long as I gave them notice. So I let them know I would be out by May 1 and they started showing the apartment. Just a few weeks after they started showing it, a women and her daughter saw it and decided they would take it for the Mother. Shortly after that the daughter wanted to know if her Mom could move in sooner as she was stressing out over the move. I said sure, I could be out by April 1.

 Yikes! I needed to get serious about getting rid of stuff and packing things up. Fortunately, I had lived in my RV for years while I was still working so I still had what I used then and knew what would fit and where. So I hurried up and brought the RV into town from my brothers where it was stored and parked it in the apartment parking lot and moved into it. I just got everything out, cleaned the apartment and had my inspection and found out the next day that the woman who would be moving in had a stroke and would not be able to live by herself. How sad for her and her daughter.

 I was now parked in the apartment building lot with an electrical cord going into my sister's apartment so I had heat but no water and far from level so no refrigerator. I needed to organize everything that I had thrown in and remove some stuff I didn't have room for or want. After things settled in a bit, I moved out to my brothers place so I could de-winterize and check out my water lines. Had a problem with the automatic valve on the top of the water heater that took awhile and several parts to fix and the outside shower hand thingy was broken and needed to be replaced but everything else was fine. Hope I never need to winterize again!

Left my brothers place and went to a State Park that was open all year and I was on my way again. The rest of the summer was spent in Wisconsin except for a trip to OK delivering stuff to my son and a trip to South Dakota to get my drivers license. I attended a Kayak Symposium in Door County put on by Rutabaga that was awesome. Hopefully I can attend one again somewhere.

I will finish up the rest of the summer in another post. I am currently in Texas enjoying the warm weather and lots of time to relax with my knitting and reading along with lots of walking.

On The Road Again!

My circumstances have changed and I will be on the road again and traveling around this great country starting May 1, 2012.

I am rethinking a lot of stuff this time around and mixing things up a bit. I am going with a South Dakota home base this time so I will be spending some time there to begin with. I am still looking into internet access. I would like to get away from the 5G limit but not having much luck yet. My RV and car are still good to go. I need to do some maintenance on the RV but nothing too bad. I will need to work on the dull finish on the roof so I need to get some products for that.

So now I am busy going through all my stuff and paring it down. I will just have a small storage area at my sister's place. I want to go lighter this time so I need to get rid of lots of stuff. I may get rid of my kayaks but I haven't decided on that yet. It would sure get rid of a lot of stuff though.

Fun times again!

New Blog

I have started a new blog that you may want to check out.


This blog is about my current lifestyle: 1950dreams

Born Free for sale

Yes, I may decide to sell my Born Free. I do not see myself getting back out on the road for a long time and it is not good for the Born Free to just sit there not being used so I may decide to sell it to someone who will use it more. I have a van now for taking day trips and short camping trips so I guess you could say I have downsized again.  Another adventure awaits as I move more toward being a minimalist. For more information on that see: farbeyondthestars or becomingminimalist

I find living in an apartment causes me to add a lot of possessions and I am not comfortable with that. It tends to limit my mobility and tie me to one spot. Even if I cannot move anywhere now, I like the feeling that I could if I wanted or needed to. I recently moved into a 2 bedroom apartment so my sister can move in with me and found I had way too much STUFF. Time to clean up and simplify my life again and one step that needs to be done is to sell the motorhome.

I will be getting all the info about it and post it with some pictures soon.

Be true to yourself.

I managed to get inland all the way to Wisconsin. Sorry I have not updated this in so long. My life has taken a turn in another direction than what I had planned. Isn't life funny that way! For the forseeable future, I will be living in an apartment in Wisconsin and helping my Mom and Sister with daily tasks so they can continue living on their own.

I have a wonderful apartment not far from my Mom's and lots of time to help them out and do a little exploring around the area. This also gives me a chance to really concentrate on improving my health by eating live, raw food. I feel best when eating only raw food and believe this will keep me going for many more years.

At some time in the future, I hope to get back out on the road if only for short periods at a time. I have not decided yet what to do with this site. I may just let it set for a while and see what happens. I may start another website about raw foods. If so, I will enter that address here.

Take care,

Dorothy

Heading inland

I have left the beach where it was rainy and cold and headed inland. It is hot here! What a change with half a days drive going from 60 degrees to over 80. I need to stock up on water!

Had a fairly uneventful and easy drive to eastern Oregon. Beautiful scenery through the mountains. One event shook things up a bit. As I was heading up a long steep section over the mountains, the pickup ahead of me swerved over into the next lane alerting me to a problem. Standing in my lane was a doe and two very tiny babies. The doe was confused after almost getting run over by the pickup and wasn't sure if she wanted to continue across the road or turn back. Fortunately, I wasn't going very fast and it was uphill so I put my flashers on and slowed to a stop fairly close to her hoping she would get the idea that she need to move. She decided to go back the way she came and the babies followed her off the road and we all started up the hill again.

I made it to my campground for the night fairly early and after a green smoothy for lunch, I cleaned the bugs off the front of my RV. Glad there was no blood there.

Interesting beach finds

I found a neat trail going from Agate Beach into Newport last week. Here is a picture of it. It is a short but well maintained trail. It is called the Agate Beach to Bay Trail but seems to end long before you get to the bay. A pleasant walk though.



I have found numerous interesting things on my morning beach walks. This is a jellyfish I saw on the beach Saturday.



Here is a photo of a starfish I saw this morning. Actually I saw three of them in the tidal pool area. The tide was way out there this morning and I had a very interesting walk.



The weather has been rather grey and cool here lately. It was sunny and warm until people started coming for the 4th of July weekend, then it turned cloudy and cool. No heavy rain fortunately but not very nice for the weekenders. Today all the weekenders are gone and the weather is clearing up a bit.