Happy Anniversary!

Well, Whoo hoo, we made it this far!
(with a lotta help from our friends and family)
Today marks the four month anniversary date of our leaving home for our journey on the road.
It has been absolutely everything and well beyond what I anticipated. I really love life on the road. It is new and exciting everyday and we meet all of the every part of our worlds best people. There is hardly a negative with the one exception that we really miss the people we love at home. We teeter constantly about that.
Also, I guess cause it sure seems like, we are entering a new phase of the aspect of living full time on the road.
Believe it or not we are really tired right now.
We get up and go most days to a new place. That entails putting all the inside things in order and loading the car on the dolly, detaching from the water, the electric, the sewer, the cable, cleaning all those things daily and then there are the body adjustments. 103 degrees one day 32 degrees the next night. Oh, and then we have to find a place to live and call hoping thatthey have room for us. (So far no room issues to date). We are definitely on a holiday and we are authentically enjoying most aspects (well maybe not when we are not having cell and internet service in all the places where ever we are) but we just need to find a place to stop for a while and get all the business and financial items (taxes) completed, watch a few movies or Tv shows, do our laundry and rest for a bit.
On any given day after picking and loading up we drive between 20 to 150 miles to get to our next site and stop every twenty feet or so to take pictures or see some impassable site. The drives can take us up to six hours each day. Then we park and unload everything and get ready to live in this place, where ever that may be, for this night or two, then get ourselves in the car to go see the local attraction (museum, scenery, park, bird, mountain, pool, river, scenic drive, observatory....) that we came to this particular place to see. This is what it is all about and it is really good. If we lived like this at home we would for sure know our state and all of its interesting points and places inside and out.
We have just learned, again, or been reminded, that we need to listen to ourselves and our bodies and Jasper and stay put once and a while to catch our breaths.
This is also what this is all about and may be the gold.
We started out with the concept that we would only be active outside of the camp for four hours a day and then be around and recreate ourselves individually for four hours a day and then sleep and eat and do entertaining creative stuff together for the balance of our day. Now we have the vision and opportunity to do that reevaluation again and see how we want to design it. And we are and we will.
All types of opportunities continually present themselves on the road.
We just pulled into a really nice and well kept RV park this morning and met the really joyful Framingham, MA woman running the reception/check in desk. The place is clean and has just a real nice fell to it. (Believe me, you can almost sense it (the energy) from the road before you pull in after a while and you even get good at picking up on it on the phone when you call to reserve a spot) this place was good from the phone and proved good upon arrival.
But there is an interesting tweek to this place. Here's the scoop!
Megan went over to up our stay for an additional day and began talking to the two people that were at the front office and found that the owners were recently asked to leave by the bank and that the place is in some state of foreclosure or settlement with the bank. Those two, that megan was talking with, stay here free (separately, like not in relationship with each other) and care take the place for the bank with a limited time commitment required in exchange for there staying free and they run it joyfully. In the midst of their conversation they asked Megan if we would like to stay here for the month of May and take care of the place while the woman goes back to Mass to sell her house and help the guy who is helping out now and who is staying here by himself to run the place while Framingham goes back to Mass for the month. So we are considering it and even considering talking to the bank about what they might want for the property.
We are in Fort Davis, Texas. A small high desert town that is a little over a mile above sea level. The normal high temps for the summer are in the high 80's and the normal lows in winter is 30. It is not very green here grass wise but there are lots of varieties of green cactus, mesquite, evergreen trees and flowers. Who knows we will sleep on it and see what works for us. Jasper of course wants us to buy the place and run it. He already has designs of opening a trading post in the front restaurant and having a horse stable on the additional 6 acres to the west of the RV park.
The other really interesting part of this story for us is that we said we needed a break and a place to stop and rest, just yesterday and an opportunity arrives and presents itself the next morning. You may find this weird but we find it magical and as if we are tuned in like never before. This is what has been happening to us more and more frequently. We receive opportunity after opportunity within a very short time of discussing and talking about our options for what we have a desire to do. It is the miraculous part of the odyssey. We are very fortunate and happy as can be that life is working this way. I have many examples of these magical occurrences.
I am very certain that they are happening for all of us ongoingly, every day. But since we have been void of most of the usual business of life at home and focused on the events of our trip and living daily life, they are just very obvious and frequent. It is fun and fulfilling to know that is how life works.