One thing I *really* like about the RV lifestyle is that, when you’re on the road, you definitely *get* that every day counts. If we’re visiting an area where we have friends, we make sure to visit those friends because we know that we’ll be on our way again in a few days. Every day counts.
When we stayed at Hart Ranch near Rapid City, SD this summer, I wanted to go for a hike in the Black Hills. We didn’t just talk about it, we did it. We had a memorable day hiking up to Harney Peak. We had to squeeze this in due to all the work we had to do on our website and rally preparations, but we did it because we only had a week there and every day counts.
Now we’re parked in our RV site where we intend to spend the whole winter. We’re at Paradise Island in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This is home for us, all our family and lots of friends are here. Since we plan to be here for nearly 6 months, the pressure of making every day count is gone. We’ve been here over two weeks now and still haven’t seen the beach! Time just slips away. I usually post to this blog at least twice a week, yet I see it’s been 2 weeks since I last posted!
A couple of days ago I went into the office of our Credit Union to make a deposit. I usually do this by mail, but I find it a treat to go into the branch office. Jessica has handled our accounts for years so I stuck my head in her office to say Hi! She asked how our summer was and it took me a while to give her just the abbreviated version. She said she couldn’t believe we had been gone 6 months – it seemed like just yesterday to her. It seemed like years to me.
It’s not that being in one place is bad … actually, I think we may have been a bit exhausted from our wonderful summer. It’s been nice to settle in and calm down. But, now I need to fight against getting too calm! Not only has it been two weeks since my last personal blog post – it’s been two months since I last published our Geeks on Tour Newsletter. Ok – gotta get to work!