22 days to go

Help!!!!

I can almost see the day we leave.  How has it come around so quickly!
Keep focused!

I have posted a photo from our trip last year when we did a trial of travel in a motor home. We enjoyed it very much; we visited beautiful places.  We were camped beside  Lake Tahoe when the photo was taken.

What we will look like in 2 weeks!!!

47 days and counting ...

I am feeling the pressure!  So many decisions and arrangements to be made;  plans to finalized; appointments to keep with doctors, dentists, optometrists.  Ollie to lavish with company and food (that's not working. She is still unfriendly!) How could we leave her?  Instructions to Kim re Mace and to Mace re Kim.  I still have to sell my car and find tenants for our home. Tax returns to finalize. All necessary financial arrangements to put in place for the running of 3 houses. We still have to make wills! Only lawyers don't have wills??

And all the time in the back of my mind (almost in my mind's eye) is the question - what will it be like? will we manage? will I manage living in such a small space? And then there's driving a 35 foot vehicle; navigating with confidence and success; coping with technology ... and Trevor.  Now there's the thing ... the 2 T's!

79 Days

Pre-travel excitement is kept in check by numerous and anxious 'to do' lists.
There is so much to do or is it all in my mind.  There are probably 'to do's' I don't even know are 'to do'.
Small things amuse small minds - yep!  Don't sweat the small stuff - yep!!  I wallow in small things!

Retirement for Trevor is all encompassing. It consumes his time completely. That is when he is not looking at motor homes on line on RV Trader.  Many things are left up to me which is fine.  I can do that.
Planning what to do first; how long before the trip; what priority; what will I forget. And then of course there are the curved balls - the back fence falls down in a storm; my car is taking longer to sell; we don't have tenants yet for our home; Ollie (cat) already knows that we are going to desert her and is not talking to us; Trevor put his hand up to make soup for Crabs!!

Sad ? No time!  Excited? Very!  This is the challenge. Unfortunately, older does not mean wiser in uncharted places.
Two people in a motor home for 12 months, navigating vast spaces, driving on the wrong side of the road, the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car ... car?  It's a bus!

We have both spent more time with friends, workmates and our children than we have with each other over the last nearly 50 years.  Who says we will get on?  We have high expectations of this trip to set us up for the next stage/age of our lives. So - nervous? Only when I have the time.

Then there is the technology - iphone, ipad, ipod, laptop, wireless, internet, gps - all of which we have to become familiar with and embrace very quickly.

Current To Do List stands at 157 items......

Test Post

Testing ... testing ... testing.  Who's idea was this? From my fairly limited use of a computer to a blog? It will never work!

When Trevor retires we plan to leave Perth  for the US where we will  spend 12 months travelling around in a motor home. Trevor will say that this is his plan; that it is in his bucket list, but with our history of travel in the US, I think we were meant to do this. Another way of looking at it is that I no longer feel quite so guilty about the recent renovations at home.  That was big but this is huge!!!