Money Well Wasted

2011 DRV Mobile Suites 36 RSSB3 with vanity slide

Happy Veterans Day! Thank you to all who have or are now serving!

The above pic is our home of 16+ years on its way to a new family where it will be cherished and well cared for. This pic also marks the end of this stage of our great adventure. A new adventure awaits and at the moment, it's completely up in the air.

We'd been full time RVers for 16 years, 4 months. November 6th marked 15 years and 10 months with this trailer. Of the 16+ years on the road, we'd volunteered for either a national park or fish & wildlife facility for 10 summers. It's a life style we already miss and may try to do again in the future. It's also a lifestyle we highly recommend to anyone contemplating it.

The trailer sold while we were in High Point, NC. We moved out into a VRBO for the weekend and then traveled south to Florida to visit family. Our intention is to settle in central North Carolina. We plan to be back in that area by Thanksgiving. We'll rent for awhile and may decided to just rent instead of purchasing another home. 

We do plan on making road trips in the future. We are addicted to travel. We may or may not get another rig. We'll hang onto our tow vehicle until we know or at least believe we have a handle on what we want to do. (The truck already has a buyer, and they are patiently waiting for "their truck"!)

So why did we stop now? Our health was beginning to negatively impact what we could do while volunteering. Our thought process was always that we were there to serve. Tell us what you need, and we'll do our best to assist. We were there to assist the facilities we volunteered at - the facilities never existed to serve us. When the district had to start adjusting what we did which impacted other volunteers and rangers, we knew it was time to at least take a break. 

Also, Paul and Kaye Cross (Indiana Interstate Enterprises) had retired. We tried a spring service with the people who bought Paul and Kaye's place and had a bad experience. We took the trailer to Lippert's Howe, IN service center to fix the issues and while they did resolve the problems enough to allow us to continue to our volunteer positions in Grand Teton NP this past summer, the trailer was not truly repaired and still needed lots of work. (FYI, the new trailer owners know all this, are extremely handy, detailed oriented, have improvements they want to make. It doesn't hurt that her father owns a DRV. They will spend the whole winter going over that trailer inch by inch, front to back, top to bottom. I'm sure they will find things Donna & I didn't know about.)

We're fortunate to have been full time RVers for so long. We've been honored to be volunteers. We learned a lot. We'd do it again in a heart beat if we could. So ends this blog.