Life without our travel trailer has proven difficult and more expensive than we initially realized. We have seen, for ourselves, why RVs are so popular for retirees and other long term travelers. Our cats find traveling with our dog, in the backseat of our truck, a taxing experience at best. Our cats prefer more quality, one on one time with my daughters and being squeezed into a living breathing blob of kids and pets in the backseat of our truck, is not our cats idea of having fun. As for our wonderful dog, Paco, he is as chill as any dog could be considering all the commotion and constant meowing from our cats.
Though traveling is more complicated than before our accommodations are proving to be quite nice and having the additional space is appreciated. We are using on-line house rental companies to find these places and to date we have had two spacious and clean homes that we stayed at. One of the best things about these home rentals is having our own washer and dryer again. The ease of washing clothes when you are ready to wash them is a simple joy that we missed while using public laundromats over the last 3 months. While RVing we could only do the laundry when the machines were available, but not anymore as the house is ours.
Once we get over the initial stress of traveling between rental homes our animals actually find the new house smells, and experiences to be a new playground. We have also agreed to staying at homes for a minimum of a week to further minimize the stresses of packing and moving on each of us. Coincidentally, we are all waking up now, not sure where we are. We haven't had this disorienting sensation since driving in South America, 3 years ago. Elise and I laugh at our complete confusion of "place" when we wake up thoroughly discombobulated. Hopefully, we can find a community and new place to call home shortly, as we are hot on the trail now. Until then, we have to make lite of waking up and not knowing where the heck we are, until we stumble upon clues that jolt our memories. We have not yet woken up in heaven, with all the puffy clouds; or in hell with all the brimstone and fire. At least we can count our blessings that we are still alive, no matter where that is in our minds.
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| Our first home outside of the trailer. Not bad, right? |
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| We do enjoy the added space of a home. |
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| Elise was amazed how big this place was compared to the travel trailer. |
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| Nice large yard for us to enjoy. |
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| We stayed in a historic neighborhood with original adobe homes, some of which are falling down. |
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| Nice sunset to welcome us to our first rental house. |
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| I loved the art work hanging on the wall of the rental. |
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