Sunday September 22nd 2024

I have been living and traveling in my motorhome full time for almost 9 years. Over the last few years my travels have slowed down partially because the motorhome needs some service to restore my confidence in travel and I also enjoy staying in one place for longer periods of time. The bottom line is it is time for a change.

I have purchased a lot with a park model in a gated fifty five plus community in Haines City Florida. The community is fairly active and seems like a good place to establish a base camp for my Rambling Road Trip. The road trip will continue after I get the motorhome serviced. I’ll travel for shorter periods in the state of Florida and for longer trips of several months in duration around North America. Eventually I will down size my motorhome, but continue to travel. I just have a place to return to.

The location is very close to the middle of the Florida peninsula. That makes getting to either coast of Florida easy. Going north and south is also fairly easy as well. The park model I found is not furnished. I looked at several that were furnished, but they were older and the furniture wasn’t exactly my cup of tea. I got a good deal on the place, so I can easily afford to furnish it the way I like it. So far I’ve pretty much got the kitchen ready to go except for a microwave oven.

Furnishing the kitchen was a task of dividing up some of the excess I carried in my RV home along with some stuff I had in the RV’s basement that I kept from my last home for this reason. The rest has come from Amazon, Walmart, Target and Big Lots. The living room and bedrooms are going to be more of a challenge. As an interim bedding solution, I bought an inflatable bed. My plan at the moment is to build a bed and a few end tables over the next few months.

The blog will also be changing. While I am in residence at my new base camp the blog will be published on Sunday night and Thursday night. When I am on the road it will be published daily once again. See you on Thursday.