Just putting into substance my dream, my vision....

My dream is to find and acquire (while we are still working as self-storage resident managers) the 5er that will suit us for many years to come as we live in it full-time.  Still with steady income and the residence provided in our job, to rig the 5er out for living, getting it set up ready for everyday use, working out the bugs, getting to know it.  Although we already have a TT and the basics, there are still mods and stuff to get for a 5er.  We already have the TV.

Thinking of the next 12-24 months, this time period would also be one of downsizing and getting rid of much of our "stuff."  It would be for researching and arranging other things like health insurance, on-the-road Internet, mail forwarding, digitizing photos, uploading music, etc.

I'd like to use our own recliners in our 5er; they're really comfy and they're ours already! 

Ideally, the economy would be better by the time we hit the road.  Whether it is or not, what I see us workamping and me additionally doing some sort of telecommuting like medical transcription (been there done that for years) or being a virtual assistant, something in photography, designing Web sites...something on a flexible, perhaps on-call, basis.  I see me teaching Reiki (an energy-based method for stress reduction and overall well-being) again...had a good practice going before getting into self-storage.  My Reiki work is my heart's passion, what I "should" be doing.  Leading community drum circles and perhaps giving lessons.  Us working side-by-side as workampers, as we do now, but in the outdoors more.  Give me a mower, I'd be happy mowing grass all day!   Being able to have enough income to live a simple life, bills paid, food on the table, to get us back to our beloved Scotland and family there every few years for a couple of weeks...you get the idea.

Getting out of the scorching, wilting Texas heat in the summers but basing ourselves here in the winter so I can get back to my great doctors in the town where I lived for several years and seeing friends and family.

Perhaps having the time to entertain The Muse and write that book folks tell me I should do...

Working, yes, I'm not afraid of work, but hopefully having more quality time in our life together.  When we're out in our TT, we walk the campgrounds, trails, etc.  We stop and chat with people.  We sit out at night and gaze at the stars more.

If for some reason we wanted to come off the road, we could get another job in storage doing what we do now.  Even in this economy, the storage industry is hanging in there.

Embracing this lifestyle of full-timing until we were unable to do so any longer.

Knowing for sure that my husband would embrace this dream as I do....

Well, that's it, folks.  That's my dream, one I've had for years and years.  Was going to do it solo, but remarried and it's been sidetracked for a while.  We're talking about it now....

The kicker is we currently work 10-hour days and weekends (typically two weekdays off).  We get 5 days of vacation every six months.  I'm thinking the only way we'll know if this will work for us is to just do it.  Living in a small space is not an issue; we have been together essentially 24/7 since October 2005.  We live together, work together, shop together, play together.  We've lived in Dave's tiny flat in Scotland, so space is not an issue.

Dave is 57 and I'm 51.  We have enough resources to start out debt-free, including rig and TV.  I'm an 8-year cancer survivor.  Life is short. 

Am I nuts?  Well, okay, maybe you shouldn't answer that!   

That's what I envision....that's what I dream...

Peace all,
Betty