Life In the RV

Happy Valentine’s  Day

Ron and I have done a great deal of traveling since we have been together both here in our home state of New Mexico, but also traveling by car and plane and in our RV to other states mostly in the western part of the US until this past summer when we were able to go to the east coast as many of you have seen in my blogs beginning in May of this past year.  We are not hikers though we enjoy being in the mountains and forests so our travels include short walks at local and national historic sites along the way.   Local small towns offer some interesting sites to see which you would not see if only taking in the well known places.  Some like our visit at the Coon Dog Cemetery in Alabama this summer proved to be quaint and unique. 

That being said, I have not written about sites in New Mexico since we are not visiting them and because, due to recent circumstances, we have not really ventured out much but stayed close to home visiting with friends, shopping, eating out in town and enjoying quiet time in the RV.  We are both home bodies so enjoy the time in the RV in this quiet park watching the neighbors and kids come and go.  There is a park across from our site which is regularly used by the children who live in this mobile home/rv park.  Nice to see a park used so much and children outside playing.  That is not to say that we have not kept busy with other projects.

Ron really enjoys doing photography and taking on line classes to learn more about how he can better post process  his pictures as well as using the internet to find things we may need or more to the point, want.  He also enjoys his game shows, police type TV shows and doing some reading on his Kindle.   He never enjoyed reading until he got the Kindle.   Fortunately, we have gotten most of our RV issues resolved for the moment so he has not needed to contact a service provider or do any repairs himself. 

We did, however, decide to replace our hide a bed sofa with two recliner chairs.  We have only used this sofa for company twice in the past year and do not travel with friends or family for the most part.   We had seen these wall hugger recliner chairs this past summer in some friends RV back east.  The chairs were ordered before Christmas from Amish Workbench Furniture and only just this past week arrived for install.  We found another RVer here in the Park who wanted to upgrade his sofa so were able to have our local RV service people take out the sofa and deliver it to our neighbor.  How much nicer they are for watching TV and for taking those late afternoon siesta’s that us seniors seem to need. 

While Ron does his thing, I keep busy with reading, quilting, crocheting and the usual household chores like house cleaning, meals, dishes and wash. Unfortunately those chores do not go away just because you live in an RV.   Last May I put a full plastic container of books in the basement and to date have not read one book from that box.  That is not to say I have not read any books.  I have quite a stash in the RV and of course being the avid reader that I am, have found a few books at flea markets, etc. which I could not resist buying.  I also read books on my Kindle.  Ron keeps saying get rid of the box of books, but I tell him the books are by my favorite authors that I need to read before giving away.  I give books away at RV Parks so we are not carrying all of the books I have read with us still.

Before going full ltime, I took a quilting class and had pieced three baby receiving blanket size quilts to be quilted this winter.  These have now been completed and will be donated along with the crocheted blankets to our local Project Linus group.

 I crochet while Ron drives the RV and in the evenings.  Since we travel so much I cannot donate my time locally so make these blankets as my community service work.  Two blankets were donated in Virginia this past summer as this is a national organization.  I also made my first wall hanging for the RV and have plans to do more cutting before we leave here in June so I can piece more projects while we travel.

We are both ready to be on the road again and have missed being in a regular RV Park and getting out to sight see in the area.  Oh well, there is always next year.   So much for life in our RV in Albuquerque this winter.  Do I miss the house here in town?  No, not at all.  We really like our life in the RV.