Happy Anniversary!

Today is our one year anniversary and we are celebrating! It was one year ago that we retired. We had worked January 4th and on January 5th we were retired! At this time one year ago we were finishing packing the motorhome and planning to travel the next day, January 6th. On January 5th, the first day of retirement, we were estatic! Looking forward to the freedom of not working! That day I received a jury summons in the mail and thought it was going to delay our departure. I remember reading the summons and it was like someone had burst my bubble. But we took off, hit the road, let the dust fly, and made our way on January 6th to Thousand Trails Palm Springs. This was the first leg of our retirement adventure and we weren't going to let the jury summons, or anything else, stop us. (I wrote a letter to the courts and they gave me a long term waiver.)

A few days ago we found ourselves once again loading the motorhome and getting ready for another road trip. We'd been home for a couple months, but had planned to spend most of January exploring. We drove to Thousand Trails Palm Springs on the 3rd and we'll spend the next few days there enjoying the warm weather, the palm tree filled sky, the fellowship of our neighboring RVers, and the friendship of friends and family. Rick and I love the fact that we spent about 300 days out of the last 365 living and traveling in our Mobile Fishing Lodge (aka our motorhome). And it's deja vu that we are in the exact same place one year later.

I hope we are able to enjoy another year, NO, many more years, living this life of freedom, adventure, and exploration. Whatever your dreams and goals are, I hope you are doing what makes you happy.