Thursday October 3rd 2024

My work toward living in two places rather than one continues slowly. I have been focusing on making the new base camp comfortable for living. That involves taking to the new base camp the things I carried all around the country for the last few years with the intent of using them in a future residence and thinning out some of the duplicates I used occasionally in the motorhome. By far the majority of things are new purchases. With the help of temporary things like an inflatable queen size bed, I can now “live” at the base camp. The only permanent furniture I have bought is a little computer desk and a computer chair. They will serve multiple purposes while I acquire living room and dinning furniture.

The task that I wasn’t thinking about and have only begun is getting the motorhome ready for part time living. It will be stored somewhere nearby when I’m not using it. The perishable foods need to be removed since it will not be powered. The majority of my clothes need to be thinned down. It makes more sense to keep the majority at my base camp and adjust the clothes in the motorhome for each trip. The overall goal is to be able to leave in the motorhome with short notice for trips in the Florida area. Travel north and west to other states will get a little more prep work.

I have tried to get in a little fun along with the work of moving into my new base camp. This morning I visited Disney’s Animal Kingdom. It was only a short visit. My thoughts were on the base camp related tasks I had planned for later in the day. I didn’t even wait in the long line for the safari ride. It was a doable 40 minutes when I arrived, but it had grown to 70 minutes by the time I reached the entrance at the back of the park. That was longer than my unfocused brain would allow, so my visit to Animal Kingdom turned into a mostly walking one. The only variation was a pause to attend the Finding Nemo show. The theater was loading just as I walked by.

My focus on visiting Animal Kingdom broke shortly after the noon hour. It turned out to be a good time to leave. The daily rain began shortly after I departed. I stopped at Walmart for a couple more odd purchases for the base camp. This time it was for a laundry basket and a small waste basic for the shed for lint from the dryer. Both of these purchases were called for by my first laundry session with my very own washer and dryer. No more campground laundry facilities for me.

Tonight I’m trying my first night in my new base camp. It is still a little more primitive than my RV home.