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An Alternative Lifestyle--Living and Traveling Full-time in a Recreational Vehicle

IT'S SO GOOD TO BE HOME
	*From the September 1992 Issue of Movin' On* Don't you agree that even after the most exciting vacation in paradise, it's good to get home and be back in your old routine? Somehow it's like a comfy old chair---good to curl up in with a book. And now that you're home, you might have time to read. Remember how you thought you'd read on your vacation? Even though eating out is fun, a steady diet of it isn't. Home again, you can fix that favorite dish, and you can have your coffee the way you like it, when you like it. Even if your routine means getting up early and going to work, there is comfort in knowing that the job and co-workers are there, the mail is in the mailbox and life can get back to normal. We carry our house with us so we are always home, but to us "being home" means being back in our chosen lifestyle---on the road and doing our thing. And even though we had a marvelous vacation in England and six delightful weeks at our home CCC park with lots of family around, it is good to be back on the road again in our home. We like our house, our bed, our cooking, time to read, time to work on the computer, finding a new radio station or new road, visiting a new restaurant, seeing new sights, talking to fellow campers, studying the map and ploting the next stop and packing up and moving down the road. This is our normal routine and after we sit a while, we are ready to get back to normal. This is hard for most people to understand. When we were at the LBJ ranch last spring, Mary Helen, a fellow volunteer and co-worker, was quite sick. The staff was concerned and wanted to make her comfortable. Ranger Sandy Hodges offered her house and a "real bed," but as we would have predicted, it was turned down. Non RVers have a difficult time comprehending anyone feeling "at home" in an RV. As I write this we are in up-state New York. We are publishing a little early then we will get busy seeing the sights in the east. But there will be lots of time to be at home in our house too. We don't go everyday. That's the beauty of this lifestyle. Since we have our house and all its comforts with us, we are home, no matter where we are, but it's especially good to be on the road again.

IT'S SO GOOD TO BE HOME

From the September 1992 Issue of Movin' On

Don't you agree that even after the most exciting vacation in paradise, it's good to get home and be back in your old routine?

Somehow it's like a comfy old chair---good to curl up in with a book. And now that you're home, you might have time to read. Remember how you thought you'd read on your vacation? Even though eating out is fun, a steady diet of it isn't. Home again, you can fix that favorite dish, and you can have your coffee the way you like it, when you like it. Even if your routine means getting up early and going to work, there is comfort in knowing that the job and co-workers are there, the mail is in the mailbox and life can get back to normal.

We carry our house with us so we are always home, but to us "being home" means being back in our chosen lifestyle---on the road and doing our thing. And even though we had a marvelous vacation in England and six delightful weeks at our home CCC park with lots of family around, it is good to be back on the road again in our home.

We like our house, our bed, our cooking, time to read, time to work on the computer, finding a new radio station or new road, visiting a new restaurant, seeing new sights, talking to fellow campers, studying the map and ploting the next stop and packing up and moving down the road. This is our normal routine and after we sit a while, we are ready to get back to normal. This is hard for most people to understand.

When we were at the LBJ ranch last spring, Mary Helen, a fellow volunteer and co-worker, was quite sick. The staff was concerned and wanted to make her comfortable. Ranger Sandy Hodges offered her house and a "real bed," but as we would have predicted, it was turned down. Non RVers have a difficult time comprehending anyone feeling "at home" in an RV.

As I write this we are in up-state New York. We are publishing a little early then we will get busy seeing the sights in the east.

But there will be lots of time to be at home in our house too. We don't go everyday. That's the beauty of this lifestyle. Since we have our house and all its comforts with us, we are home, no matter where we are, but it's especially good to be on the road again.