Never Say Never

You can be moving along in your life and in the matter of minutes everything can change. That can be sad and again it can be a happy thing. Such is our lives recently. We chose the fulltime RVing life because of our love for the outdoors, nature, seeing new places and meeting new and as we learned some incredible people. Meeting the people, making friends we hold close to our hearts is or was the icing on the cake.


After several conversations about ending the fulltime lifestyle.....we did just that. On August 18, 2010 after almost six years on the road we came home. We surprised some folks maybe even ourselves just a bit. I've wanted to come home for a while but I learned that Dan and I need to be on the same page. He loved fulltime RVing and hated giving it up. Over the past month several times he said he was so tired and then the simple sentence "I just want to go home". I prefer to not go into the nitty gritty of "why". I also prefer to look forward, not backward. A very wise person once told me "you can't move forward if you keep looking back". So, I'm looking forward.


The motor home is parked in our yard, has been unloaded and for now will sit right there. We have agreed we will not ever full time again. The plan is to sell the motor home at some point. We do enjoy a cool crisp morning by the lake that looks like glass, campfire going, coffee in hand, one of those mornings when you need some light sleeves to take the chill off....yes love that stuff. Always will, but not as a full timer. Arkansas has some beautiful lakes, I once read this state has some 10,000 miles of shoreline so there is a lake nearby in any direction. Who knows, might just get up early one morning and go fishing...we do know some great fishing spots.


We are at peace, very happy with our decision. We are reinventing our home. From here on we are on a journey of discovery, learning about our likes and dislikes, having the time to savor the moment without rushing, without worry about what day we have to move on, without worry about the rig and the surprise of the day.


The day we pulled into the yard it was raining so hard. Our plan was to hit the ground running but we had to wait for the rain to quit. That meant we could just take the time and walk through the house, catch our breath, take a soda pop and sit on our porch and watch the rain. The second day here we had a thunderstorm, again we went to the porch, just sat and watched and listened. It was awesome.


To add to the excitement on Monday before we came home Wednesday we added a new puppy to our family. He is Whitney, a Schnauzer, a rescue like his big sister KD.


Meet Whitney, a white ball of fire and energy, so full of life, bringing so much laughter to this house.




KD and Whitney catching their breath, she plays with him, then gets enough and sends him packing. Yes, she is the alpha dog.

A couple of days before leaving one of our last campsites I saw this deer who had discovered the feed sack....talk about a happy deer. There is a baby on the other side of the mama.

We are busy with choosing paint colors for the interior of the house, planning when to make the car trip to the Texas coast to reclaim our stored stuff and bring it home by means of a rented truck, planning how to arrange the interior of the house. I plan to have a guest room when all is said and done. I've already learned some things I missed...my bathtub, my dishwasher, my real refrigerator with all its room and that wonderful, long, porch. Dan has his office, I have an area designed for my crafts, we have an outside enclosed shop that is heated and cooled for year round fun, it doubles as a stained glass studio. Dan has told me that I don't even want to think about going out there right now...well...I did peak into the door...he was right....I'm staying out of there until he works his magic.

Never say never.....that is a long time and things happen, life changes and that's OK, progress is about change. You just never really know so it's important to keep the options open.

Life is very good and it is so good to be home!!!!!