On May 5 I will begin my slow mosey to the East Coast. I currently live in Oklahoma and recently my family dynamic has changed and I'm now able to travel at will. I inherited 2 houses and need to finish fixing them up and listing them for sale. Once they listed, I have to be out within 30 days. This means I also have to sell everything that isn't going into storage or into the RV that I will be buying at that time before the houses are listed.
I still have a lot of work orders to complete for my customers and so I really don't anticipate having all that much time and money to travel and I am trying to work out part time teaching jobs in various parts of the country.
I had my first of 2 or 3 garage sales last weekend and it did pretty well. I actually hate having garage sales but there were a lot of little things that needed to be sold that wouldn't be worthy of my etsy shop or my website. And, the biggest hit was the blue tarp I put down on the ground and told everyone that stopped by that whatever was on the tarp was FREE. Yep, got rid of a lot of things that I didn't think would sell - you know - single plates, scratched or chipped nick nacks - that kind of thing.
After I get the houses sold, I plan to travel/live in an RV for at least 6 years. While traveling, I intend to travel frugally but still enjoy all the wonders of this great country. I plan on boondocking in National Forests and State Parks.
This blog is about documenting the slow moseys beginning with this first one of 2011 (I've taken this trip 2 x in 2010 - sleeping in my car in rest stops on the way to the East Coast and back much to the horror of some of my family members) and to document the process of turning my 1997 Camry into a travel mobile - sometimes crash pad - camping equipment transporter. I will take several long trips, sometimes of several days to a few weeks until the houses sell.
I hope you enjoy taking a slow, leasurly mosey with me. I welcome your comments and hope to pass you moseying down the road on your own adventure.
