Looking back on our first year of fulltiming

One year ago, on September 14, 2007, we retired and hit the road. Three months prior, we had sold our house in Olympia WA. In September, we left our RV lot at Lake Tyee for new adventures. Now, 15,000 miles later, what do we think?

Over these past 12 months, we have met the unexpected and gone away with it.

• Visited eight beautiful National Parks and camped next to an all night fuel station.
• Spent a week at a hot springs desert resort near Palm Springs and three weeks with no utilities on the Arizona desert.
• Endured weeks of repairs on our RV, and months of repairs to our own bodies.
• Basked in the Arizona winter sun and fled from Kansas spring tornadoes.
  

Through it all, we met generous, kind, caring comrades in ten states of the Union.

Fulltiming is challenging, exciting, uncommon, exhausting, impossible to duplicate. We wouldn’t have it any other way.

Can’t wait for the next year. We’re ready to hit the road again.

Bruce