Getting Closer to getting on the Road

We are hoping the third time is a charm, as we have entered into contract for a 3rd time with a couple to purchase our home. The Professor and his wife seem to really love the house and have spent over a thousand bucks in appraisals, inspections even installed an upgrade on the septic system. But they asked to back up the transfer date a week just a couple of days ago so who knows what is going on with them.

Anyway, we are going on the assumption that they will be able to get act together and follow through with the purchase on the 15th of June and we will need to be moved out of the house and into the RV. We have given the RV the name "Mosey" partly in honor of her older Sister "Cozy" and partly to the fact that that is how we get 'er done as we "Mosey" on down the road.

I have started trying to learn how to edit videos a little bit so as we are traveling around, we can take lots of pictures and videos and share them. If you watch them, you may have to put up with some pretty goofey editing and transitioning effects but hopefully the content will be interesting. I may have to hook up with Aiden and get some pointers from a trained professional. I am sure he will be able to give me some tips and techniques to help it go a little more smoother.

I hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day Week-end.

Thousand Trails Membership

We are getting closer to having the sale on the house finalized and trying to figure out just how and where we will be traveling the next year or two before settling down in a new home and new retirement location.

Some of the main areas we will want to travel to are:

• Pacific Northwest to view the the beautiful country and the Northwest Caddels
• Southern California to get some time in the beautiful weather, ocean beaches and the California Caddels
• Texas to check out south Texas winter weather and stay away from the cold and the Texas Caddels & Canadas
• New England just because we haven't been there and want to see it
• Florida to winter in the nice warm weather in 2018 or 2019 (most likely)
• Northern Nevada to visit with friends and Family every chance we get in Reno and Spring Creek (our new official address will be Ronnie & Melissa's ) to do a little maintenance and pick up the mail. Ronnie and Melissa are checking out locations to retire to in a few years, but until then we are hoping to be able to drop in for a few days on occasion to catch up with their projects and simply decompress a bit.

We have decided to join the Thousand Trails campground group. We purchased a membership and should get all the paperwork in a couple of weeks, but the main highlight on how it works is that now that we are members, we pay $600 a year and get to camp free all year at any of their 80 plus rv parks scattered around the country (in exactly the areas we want to travel to). I have attached a map of their locations (hopefully the link works)

Our Thousand Trails Campground Locations

There are a lot of additional benefits that allow our immediate family to also camp for FREE as well as rent their cabins, yurts for about 50% off. Once we get all the paperwork and understand it better we will be able to post more specifics on the family benefits.

Many of the Thousand Trails campground are older and dated but many if not most are in the places we want to be and even though we won't be camping there exclusively, we will be able to save a hugh amount of money by staying free in these parks and not paying for RV sites when we can. WE love FREE