Hi, thanks for stopping by! I’m Jeanne, intrepid daydreamer, sharing my thoughts and experiences about this Happy Life we all seek. Join the discussion, challenge my thoughts, share your wisdom!
For some, retirement means ‘stop working and enjoy the fruits of your labor’ but for me it took on a different meaning: it meant ‘stop working at your corporate job; sell your home, get a travel trailer and live in it and hit the road with it but keep on working till you die, because you have no retirement income except Social Security!’
Well, I got off the corporate treadmill, with gusto sold my home and now my living area is roughly 8′ by 18′ — translates to about 144 square feet. Heck, this would fit inside the bedroom I used to have! And in this tiny space I have a U-shaped couch/dinette combo, a refrigerator, stove, oven, double sink, pantry, double bed, two clothes closets, a single bunk above my bed, and a bath with shower and all the other necessities. When I’m parked in a campground I have a 8′ by 14′ covered patio.
As for the ‘work till I die’ part of this scenario: I must be part cowpoke, because I expect to die with my boots on, so to speak. And the work? Who’d have thought I could find a full-time job as a gardener! And in a campground where I get to live! What’s this, earning money doing what I love doing more than anything else in the world, in a setting surrounded by nature? Doing work that keeps my muscles toned and my joints agile and my belly fat under control? Every day getting dirt under my nails, growing my callouses, breathing clean country air? Participating in the coming-to-life of the earth every single spring, and nurturing all this new life until fall, and having our campers comment every day on how wonderful the gardens are?
And in the fall, returning to southwest Louisiana for four months of weather that doesn’t even qualify as winter!
Geez. No wonder I’m so crazy happy! How about YOU? What parts of YOUR life thrill your soul?
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Tags: Gardening, retirement, RV Living
Categories: RV Living
Like so many others, I’ve found one of the best things about Workamping is the people I meet, primarily in the campgrounds or other venues where I end up working. Interesting, puzzling, challenging, fascinating- there is no end to the diversity. Some have become life-long friends, a few I can (happily) never see again, but I always look forward optimistically to the next people I will be meeting in my travels.
Aha, Betty, I got you pegged as a Pollyanna too. But isn’t it fun to expect the best and then to find it so often! Hope you stop by often, and who knows, maybe we’ll run into each other — never say never!