Out with the old...

...guess that means me! Just about one month from now my next phase of life will start. The first step (trip) has been taken and like water under the bridge, life keeps moving on. Photos and report already posted.

Over the past several months I have attempted to apply logic, sense and reason to what has become my "plan B." The basic logic seems to be, get out in the world, do something. Sitting on a sofa watching old homes being beautified doesn't cut it. As a "couch potato", I am a failure. V should be for victory, not vegetating. 

This next month is going to be hectic. Accounts to close, address changes, Doctors to visit, new prescriptions, auctioneers, ad nauseum. I must visit everyone except..."Indian chiefs!" They will be in the future. This house must be cleared. I must divest myself of all the superfluous in my life. The RV seems to be imposing a monastic style of life...notice any irony there?

March 1st will arrive, without fanfare, much more quickly than I can anticipate. The pure beauty of this trek is that I only need to plan the first day. There are many places along the way to park the RV, some expensive, some not and a few free. Since you are required to wear the same cheap shower shoes regardless of the grandeur of the location, this is where basic economics will win. 

The first stop will most likely be south of here. Some point between here and there (Miami), perhaps for a game or two of Red Sox pre-season baseball. Or, maybe a couple of state parks...we'll see. "Spot?" She gets to adjust on the fly. Her plan B is in San Antonio with Karen and Bryan. Again, we'll see. I won't kick her to the curb.

The initial loosely assembled "grand plan" has no attached time frame, no written in stone set of stops, sites or places. It's extremely loose! South, north, west, San Antonio, west, north...a squirrel could do better. About the only immutable point is to be back in warm weather before snow hits. Open house at Karen's...date tbd! Then I'll consider the next aspect.

You that know me, know what I feel about phones...a necessary evil, and that's about all. Where I am headed the service will be spotty, I won't be calling from roadside very often. The official recorded version of this trek will be on my blog and from there onto Facebook. This, I will try and keep as up to date as service permits. It could be sporadic, but I'll try. Hope that works for all and hope you will pass it forward.

Some have mentioned that I can be compulsive, obsessed, perhaps passionately obsessed, so, to not state definitive objectives is a strange and rare moment for me. There are many stops along the route, but in this instance the route is what remains undefined. So be it.

Now, back to the chaos. There is a timeline for it and its March 1st, so as Bryan might say, I had better "Be Prepared!"