Sunday, December 3, 2017
Eleven years ago, Ron and I purchased our first RV, a 1996
gas 36 foot Dutch Star motorhome and started our adventures as RVers. We joined a Good Sam chapter in Albuquerque,
met lots of other RVers, learned how to care for our RV, places to go and
enjoyed the camaraderie on our many trips with our chapter and alone.
In 2009 when Ron retired, we traded in the Dutch Star for a
38 foot diesel pusher and began going on longer trips and became vendors
attending rallies selling kitchen products.
Our travels took us to more of the western U.S.
states from Texas north even into Canada . What fun we had enjoying all the states,
cities, historic sites and meeting new people everywhere.
We longed to try the full time lifestyle so in 2014 we once
again traded in our RV for a 2008 40 foot diesel Tiffin Phaeton with four
slides and lots of storage in the basement allowing us to have lots of room for
all the “stuff” we thought we would need to be full time. In 2015 we sold our sticks and bricks home
and started our adventure as full timers traveling all the way to the east
coast to visit my son and family and take in some of the historic sites of that
part of the country. This past summer we
completed our travels into the last of the western states (Oregon
and Washington ). There is so much to see and so little time to
see it all. All you can do is scratch
the surface and enjoy the ride.
In October we came to Kerrville ,
TX to enjoy the fall and to see
my daughter and her family who live near by.
Our intent was to remain here until after Christmas and then spend
January through March in Arizona at the RV
Resort we enjoyed last year and then venture to the eastern U.S. next
summer.
After arriving in Kerrville ,
we decided to talk to a realtor about housing, costs, etc. as we had decided we
might settle here when we were ready to quit RVing or at least full
timing. One thing led to another and we
found the perfect home for us and decided to make an offer. We were in quite a quandary for a week or
more as we had not really thought we were ready to give up full timing, but something
had said this was the time. Long story
short, we have now purchased a home here moving in over the Christmas holidays
and New Year.
As for “HaRVey ”
as we have called our RV these many years, we plan to put it on the market soon
hopping this is the best time of year with all the snowbirds in this part of
the country. We want to continue to travel
some and may purchase something smaller that we can travel in for a weekend,
week or month at a time.
We will miss our visits with RV friends on the road and hope
that they, our friends far and wide and our family and extended family will
come and visit us here in the beautiful Hill Country of Texas. The early spring is a great time here as the Texas blue bonnets and
other wildflowers are truly gorgeous. We
are close to San Antonio with the many historic
sites and river walk to visit as well as many other quaint and interesting
communities of this part of Texas . The door is always open and a guest bedroom
awaits anyone who cares to visit.
I will be be sending out our annual Christmas letter with
our new home address. Our email and
phone numbers which you currently have will remain the same.
Thank you to all our family and friends for your love and
support during our travels and for opening your doors to our visits. Thank you too for being one of my blog
readers this past two and a half years. Life
is an adventure and journey and we are ready for the next chapter and what it
brings.
Final sign off to begin our new life. Kathy and Ron