Our travels

Full Circle

Fri, 4 Jun 2010 22:03:19 -0600

A little over a week ago, almost exactly two years after we sold our house in Colorado and moved into the motorhome, we arrived back in Colorado. We’ve come full circle. Well, maybe two circles, to be precise, a West Coast circle and an East Coast circle. In any case, we’ve come back to the place we called home for twelve years, and it’s looking like it may be home again. More on that later.

For those of you who actually read these blog posts, you know that my last post was done over two months ago while we were parked in Austin. I promised to do another post near the end of our stay in Austin, but didn’t. I actually had one about half finished the day before leaving but then, for the very first time in the three years I’ve used it, my Macbook seized up and I had to power it down, losing what I’d done. (Huh?!! A Mac actually crashed? Somebody call Steve Jobs!) I then got busy with moving preparations and didn’t finish. Now it’s all “old news” so I’ll just give you a quick rundown and call it good.

In my last post I complained about the month of cold, rainy, even snowy weather we’d had since hitting Austin. Well, it changed. We enjoyed a glorious spring, all three days of it, and then it got hot (90+ degrees) and humid. That’s not really a complaint—we both like warm weather—but it was surprising how quickly things changed.

We had several more sets of friends and family visit while we were there. Our friends Jack and Dana from Russellville, AR spent a few days followed by a visit by Ann’s brother Colin from Cape Town, South Africa. Teri and Bob from Tulsa and Joe and Sandi from Fort Smith rounded out the crew. Thanks for honoring us with your visits, everyone! I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

We also made a lot of friends around the RV park, particularly Ken and Lydia, the wonderful owners of La Hacienda, and Gary, our new friend from Telluride, CO. We also found time to enjoy sailing, brewing beer, exploring the area, and just hanging out with friends and family. We continue to like Austin a lot. It may just be home some day.

We left Austin on May 19 and drove to Fort Worth for a reunion of my old Marine squadron. For four days we got reacquainted, repeated old lies and invented new ones, and generally enjoyed ourselves. It’s great to still feel so close to friends from forty years ago. I’m already looking forward to our next reunion.

We left Fort Worth on the 23rd and spent three days fighting winds on our way to Denver. The first day wasn’t too bad, with winds of around 25 gusting to 45. We spent the first night in Amarillo and enjoyed dinner with my adopted cousin Kim.

The second day was a different story. The weather folks were calling for winds of 30-40 with gusts to 60-70. I believe they were conservative. I unhooked the car and had Ann drive along behind, which helped, but it was still the most challenging driving I’ve done. One gust, in particular, required a steering correction of about 90 degrees. The world disappeared in a dust cloud, obscuring not only the road but also the two cars I was about to meet. Somehow, we all stayed in our lanes and passed in the dust without seeing one another. To say I was glad to pull into the RV park at the top of the pass north of Raton, NM is a huge understatement. My shoulders and arms were sore for two days afterward from the tension and exertion.

Luckily, the final day of the trip was uneventful, with the winds moderating. We pulled into Cherry Creek State Park in Denver on the 25th and began what has been almost two weeks of visiting with old friends and exploring familiar surroundings. It’s good to be “home.”

Now for the “More on that later” part. During our stay in Austin, we also began another very important process. When we started this adventure, we committed to two years on the road. We agreed that we’d then evaluate the situation and decide whether to continue or not. We agreed to base the decision on our health, whether we were having fun or not, how well the finances were holding up, and perhaps other factors that might arise. Well, our two years are up. It’s decision time.

Our health is good and we’re still having fun. The full-timer lifestyle has proven to be fairly inexpensive, one we could probably continue indefinitely if the economy continues to regain strength. If not, we (and a lot of other people) might find things getting tight some day. So the score is “Good health? — Yes”, “Still fun? — Yes”, and “Finances okay? — Probably.”

But there’s another factor that has arisen, one that is surprisingly important to us, one that is becoming a problem. We’re both Type-A personalities. We’re impatient, competitive, and ambitious. We like goals and deadlines. We like to have a plan. We like challenges. We like to feel like we’re doing something worthwhile, that we have a purpose for getting out of bed every morning.

That one word, purpose, or actually the lack thereof, is the problem. I believe I talked about this in a post several months ago. We live a very enjoyable life on the road, one filled with fun and adventure, but we lack purpose. We’re both a little surprised to discover how important this is and how empty our lives feel without it.

So, we’ve decided that we should suspend our adventure and return to a life that addresses our need for purpose. Enjoyable work provides purpose, so we’re planning to return to the work world. This will also address the financial uncertainty I mentioned above, as we’ll be able to bolster our savings in anticipation of full retirement within a few years.

With this in mind, we began to explore the job markets in Austin and Denver with the intent of seeking employment at the end of this summer’s travels. As luck would have it, Ann mentioned this to a colleague at her former place of employment in Denver who immediately said, “When can you start?” It turns out she wasn’t joking. I’ve been waiting to post this until the final piece fell into place, and it fell today. Ann signed a contract and will return to work on June 14th, bringing our travels to an end.

How do we feel about it? Our feelings are mixed. It’s the right thing to do and we’re glad it happened so quickly and easily. Ann loves her old company, “Sports Authority,” and is looking forward to returning. I look forward to returning to contract consulting or maybe writing a book, both of which I love. Being employed will reduce our concerns about the state of the economy and the health of our investments. We’re both excited about the prospect of finding that perfect little place to live—probably a lock-and-leave condo or townhome—and look forward to having a little more space, especially in the kitchen. So we generally feel good about the decision.

On the other hand, we are understandably a little sad to end our travels. In the past two years, we’ve enjoyed an incredible, non-stop, once-in-a-lifetime adventure. We’ve experienced the amazing diversity of this country, diversity found in its people and their cultures, in its farms and cities, in its food and drink and entertainment, and in its terrain and climate. We’ve met thousands of people and made quite a number of them our friends for life. We’ve watched the sun rise over the Atlantic and set over the Pacific. We’ve been lost in the wheat fields of eastern Oregon and tangled in Boston’s rush-hour traffic. Oh, and we’ve enjoyed the lovingly-made products of some of our nation’s most dedicated craftsmen at over a hundred brew pubs across the country. We have memories to last a lifetime, many captured in photographs and these blog entries. It’s been wonderful.

So it’s with mixed but generally good feelings that I bring this blog to its conclusion. I plan to leave it online for a year or two in hopes that it will encourage others, such as you, to seek out their own adventure. I may even do an occasional post just to keep those of you who use our RSS feed up to date on how things are going for us.

Thank you for reading these ramblings. I hope you’ve gotten half the enjoyment from reading them that I’ve gotten from writing them. And In particular, I hope I’ve heightened your sense of adventure a bit.

Please allow me to leave you with some heartfelt advice. Don’t postpone life. There’s one you, living one life, one time—no do-overs, no second chances. Don’t waste another moment of your life worrying about the future or regretting the past; you can do little about either. “Now” is all that’s real. Enjoy it.

Our best wishes to you all.

Alan

Austin for the Winter

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:25:01 -0600

We’ve been in Austin for a month and a half and I’ve not done a blog entry. I guess that’s normal, giving that we aren’t traveling. So, I’ll do one now and maybe another before we leave. Then I’ll pick up the pace as we begin our summer travels.

I closed my last blog entry with, “We made the drive to Austin in the rain on Monday and have been sitting in cold rain ever since. The weather forecast called for clearing this afternoon, but it’s 4:30 P.M. and still raining. Have I mentioned that I’m sick of cold, wet weather?! I think I may just brew some beer. More on that later.” Well, the weather continued cold and wet and I did brew some beer, so here’s the “more on that later” part.

First, the weather. As you can see in the photo, the weather went from bad to worse. It was cold, rainy, and even snowy for the first three weeks we were here. “So what?” you ask. Let me explain.

When weather keeps you indoors in your stick-and-brick house, you can still roam from room to room, cooking in the kitchen and eating in the dining room and watching TV in the family room and so on. You probably have a dozen or more comfy chairs to sit in and several places to lie down for a quick snooze. You can go out into the garage and tinker with your car or to your basement workshop to fix that widget that you’ve been putting off fixing for so long. Even though you’re trapped indoors, you have room and there’s plenty to do.

Now imagine being trapped in a “house” that has about 350 square feet of livable space. Imagine the kitchen and dining room and living room and family room all sharing the same 200 square feet. Imagine having only a couple of comfortable places to sit and no place for tinkering or hobbies. Toss in the fact that you’re sharing this tiny space with another person and a dog, and you’ll find that it very quickly gets very small, to say the least. It’s a brutal compatibility test, one that we passed with only a couple of minor skirmishes.

But the bad weather has passed and it’s warm and sunny with occasional springtime showers. Our time in weather-prison is now just a memory, at least until next time.

We like Austin. The terrain is hilly, at least on the west side, with lakes and rivers scattered around. The weather is hellishly hot in the summer but otherwise is nice. The people are..., well, they’re Austinites. They’re a mix of every race, religion, political persuasion, gender preference, and whatever you can imagine, and the amazing thing is that they all seem to get along. There’s a degree of tolerance that’s rarely seen in other areas of our country. Sure, there are the usual extreme right-wing nut-cases who can’t seem to get along with anyone, but most folks here live and let live. The local slogan, “Keep Austin weird,” is more than just a slogan; it’s a goal.

Austinites also enjoy a varied entertainment and the social life, both of which are a lot more laid back and low key than in other places we’ve lived. As an example, the photo on the left is of The Draught House, a local hangout for people who enjoy variety in their beer. It’s a pub with a large indoor seating area and a back patio with picnic tables, but many people just bring their lawn chairs and sit in the front parking lot. If you ask, “Why?” you’ll probably get an answer like, “Why not?” And it’s not just twenty-somethings; one of the groups in the photo is a three-generation family with ages that ranged from around five to probably seventy-five.

Speaking of beer and in keeping with the “more on that later” thread, my sons and I have been brewing beer. Mike, my oldest, lives near where we’re parked and he and Tonya have been generous enough to allow “the boys” to turn their garage and patio into a brewery. Mike brewed (and drank) a batch of Porter just before we arrived and since then we’ve brewed two IPAs and an Irish Red Ale. We opened the first two bottles of IPA yesterday for a taste test. Having only been in the bottle for a week, it was a little harsh and tart, but you can tell it’s going to be a good beer with a little more conditioning time. I really like brewing. It will be a great retirement hobby when I settle down in a stick-and-brick.

In addition to enjoying family and friends in the area, we’ve also enjoyed the company of three other couples from our past. Jerry and Nita, friends from Oklahoma we met in Brownsville last winter, were in the park when we arrived. We enjoyed spending a week with them, catching up on Jerry’s wheeling and dealing and sharing stories of places visited. Jerry and Nita, we look forward to crossing paths with you next time.

A few days later, our long-time friends from Arkansas, Kim and Doug, arrived in their motorhome for a long weekend. We had a great time talking and carousing around, including a trip to Luckenbach and Fredericksburg, two of our favorite places in the Hill Country.

We also went to Stubb’s BBQ in downtown Austin for “Gospel Brunch.” As you can see in the photo, Ann and Kim had a great time, including spending some time on stage swinging to gospel music. Stubb’s is an Austin fixture founded originally by C. B. “Stubb” Stubblefield, a famed cook, lover of blues and country music, and Purple Heart winner. It’s a ramshackle old building that city engineers recently tried but failed to close. The Gospel Brunch offers all-you-can eat breakfast and barbecue served with a topping of live gospel music. It’s worth a visit next time you’re in Austin. Oh, and be sure and try Stubb’s BBQ sauces and marinades, available in stores nationwide. They’re the only sauces and marinades we use.

To Muffin’s delight, KIm and Doug brought Mollee, their dog, along. The “in jail” photo is of the two of them wanting to follow us into the pool area. Kim and Doug, thanks for the visit. Let’s do it again soon, maybe in Colorado?

Speaking of Muffin, she’s a star in our local park. Everyone seems to know her name and we can’t go past the office without her getting a treat. This is partly due to the fact that she got all dressed up and participated in the Mardi Gras Parade and Party hosted by Ken and Lydia, the owners and managers of the park. They’re a great couple who are dedicated to the comfort and enjoyment of their customers. We recommend La Hacienda RV Resort without qualification.

We’ve also spent time with our friends Al and Nancy, who live nearby. Al and I were in the Marines together many more years ago that we like to admit. We reconnected several years ago and have been close friends since. Al has a beautiful airplane, a Cirrus SR22 Turbo, complete with a “glass panel” and all the electronics one could wish for. Al was kind enough to invite me and my son-in-law, Rich, to fly with him one day. (I had my camera but didn’t take a single photo!) Flying along watching all the electronic magic do its job, Al and I reminisced about the “good old days” in the A-4 Skyhawk in which you were lucky to have a working radio. Somehow, without nav computers, GPS, radar, or any of the other modern aids, we flew our A-4’s from the USS Independence day and night, in all kinds of weather, and survived. Aviation has come a long way. Anyway, thanks for the ride, Al, and for being such a great friend.

That’s about it. We’ve decided to stay in Austin until late May. We’ll spend the time with family and friends as well as surveying the local housing and job markets, in case we decide to settle here some day. From what we’ve seen so far, the housing market is a buyer’s market, with home prices depressed and the market glutted with properties for sale. Unfortunately, the flip side of this is that the job market is tight, so employment may be hard to find. Time will tell.
Alan

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The Gulf Coast

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:41:50 -0700

You may have noticed that it’s been a while—five days shy of a month, to be exact—since I did the last post to this blog. When that happens, you should know that either we’re having too much fun to stop and write about it, or we’re having no fun at all and thus have nothing to talk about, or maybe I’m just being lazy. In this case, it’s been all three.

We’ve had fun, no doubt. Lots of it. A week with old friends was a week full of laughs. A week on the beach at Pensacola was fun. But we’ve also continued to be plagued by cold, rainy, windy weather, which takes a lot of the fun out of this lifestyle. And I’ve been lazy.

I ended the last post in Tampa as we prepared to start our trip around the Gulf Coast to Austin. We’re now safe and sound in Austin, parked in the same spot we spent part of last winter in, with cold rain pouring outside. Ugh. Will this weather ever improve?!

Our first stop on the trip was at our friend’s place near Chiefland, FL. I’ve known and loved Mac and Karen for many years. Mac and I served together in the Air National Guard back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. We were quite a team. Their place is in the country very near the Manatee Springs State Park, a beautiful and quiet area in rural Florida. We spent the week catching up, telling tales on one another, and arguing politics. Thanks for a great week, my friends!

We left Chiefland bound for Pensacola, but decided to stop en route at Marianna, FL. I have absolutely nothing to say about Marianna other than, “Don’t bother.”

We pulled in to the Oak Grove RV Park on Naval Air Station Pensacola and were assigned a nice site with a view of the water. My “Beach Babes,” Ann and Muffin, spent hours running and splashing and digging on the nearby beach. I guess we should try to settle near a beach, as much as they love them, but rich folks have bought up all the desirable coastline property so I guess we’ll just have to settle for annual visits to the shore.

As much as Ann and Muffin love the beach, I love the Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola even more. It’s one of the best air museums you’ll find, especially if you have any interest in naval aviation. I flew several of the airplanes in the museum, including the two pictured here, so the museum is like a homecoming to me. I highly recommend it.

After a fun week at Pensacola, we traveled west a ways to Gulfport/Biloxi, MS, to visit another Air Guard buddy. Denny was my boss for two or three years back in the late 80’s, one of the best bosses I’ve ever had. He also became a good friend who I hadn’t seen in a long time, so our visit with him and Mary Ann was special. Unfortunately, a forecast of stormy weather forced us to leave a day early to avoid driving in storms, which made our visit with them painfully short. We promise to stay longer next time!

Our final stop before Austin was in Houston, TX to visit my youngest son and his girlfriend, Cynthia. John moved there a year or two ago and works for a consulting company as a Sharepoint Architect (which means something to techies). We arrived a day early, having beat the storms in by a hair, and spent most of the weekend in record cold and rains. The nice part of the rain and cold is that we were able to spend a lot of time visiting while hanging out at some of Houston’s best bars and restaurants. The bad part is that we don’t know what the town looks like. Maybe next time!

We made the drive to Austin in the rain on Monday and have been sitting in cold rain ever since. The weather forecast called for clearing this afternoon, but it’s 4:30 P.M. and still raining. Have I mentioned that I’m sick of cold, wet weather?! I think I may just brew some beer. More on that later.

Alan

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Key West and Tampa

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:47:21 -0700

Well, our weather luck (bad luck) continues to hold. We arrived in Key West and had one warm day. Then came cool temperatures and high winds, followed by rain, then a warm day and then cold wind and rain, and so on. As a result, I’m afraid that our experience in Key West isn’t what it could have been. Nonetheless, we enjoyed our visit.

I guess I should first mention that we stopped in Key Largo for an overnighter on our way down. Key Largo is next door to the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, a one-of-a-kind underwater park. It’s also home to a lot of retirees and other escapees from the modern world. There’s not much going on there but it has its charm. We spent part of the afternoon on the deck at the Pilot House Marine restaurant, a great place to relax after a hard drive through south Florida traffic.

The next day we made the surprisingly easy drive down the Keys to Sigsbee Island, the housing area and RV park for the Key West Naval Air Station. We went into dry camping (no electric, water, or sewer hookups) and were told to expect to move to full hookups within a week. After getting set up, we wandered over to the Sunset Lounge, a beachside club and restaurant on the Sigsbee base. Visiting the Sunset became part of our daily routine. It’s a nice little club and is, as you can see from the photo on the left taken from the club, aptly named. The manager, Steve, and his wife Jill, are great people, as is our favorite bartender, Seann. Thanks for the good times, guys!

The town of Key West is unique. It’s old, with narrow streets and no parking, and is crowded with tourists, many of whom are ashore from the many cruise ships that visit the port. It’s a very active port, with many recreational and working boats and ships lining the shore and piers. One of those was the Appledore, the tall ship that we sailed on in Camden, ME last summer, which spends winters in Key West. We took a sunset cruise with them and thoroughly enjoyed both the sail and the opportunity to visit with Justin, the Captain, again. Maybe we’ll catch up with them again some day.

Bars seem to be the primary source of income and means of entertainment in Key West. Two stood out to us, the Schooner Wharf Bar and El Meson de Pepe. The Schooner is crowded with tourists but has great live entertainment in a very rustic nautical atmosphere. Pepe’s is a restaurant, which we didn’t visit, with an outdoor bar, which we did visit—several times. I hung at the bar while Ann danced and the pup kept the chickens away. Key West is a do-whatever-you-want and dress-(or undress)-however-you-want kind of place, so people-watching is great sport.

Our other favorite place in the area was the Hogfish Bar & Grille on Stock Island. It’s in the working area of Safe Harbor and, like Singleton’s in Mayport, looks like the next high wind will bring it down. But they have great food and a friendly atmosphere, along with the scenes of the little harbor. If you go there, try the “Killer” hogfish sandwich!

We celebrated Christmas and New Year’s while in Key West. With no friends or family in the area, Christmas was a very quiet event for us, consisting mostly of a pot luck dinner hosted by the RV park workers. The fact that we had moved from dry camping to full hookups by then was a nice Christmas gift. New Year’s, on the other hand, was a little more celebratory. We attended a party at the Sunset Lounge, complete with a steak and lobster dinner and all the (hiccup) booze you cared to drink. We had fun!

So how do we feel about Key West? Well, it’s a great place to visit—once. We met people who have spent every winter there for years and love it more every year. I guess this just confirms something I observed some time ago, that it’s a good thing that people like different things. If everyone liked the same things, there would be, for example, only one kind of car. Everyone would be in love with the same man or woman and the rest of us would be left out. And if everyone loved Key West, it would quickly lose its charm and become a terrible place to be. I understand the appeal of Key West and I’m very glad we visited, but it’s unlikely we’ll be back.

We left Key West on Monday, stopped overnight in the Homestead area, and arrived at MacDill AFB in Tampa, FL, on Tuesday. MacDill is a great base, large and surrounded on three sides by water, with great facilities. We’ve noticed during our travels that Air Force bases seem to be a cut above the others, and MacDill is no exception.

The city of Tampa, especially the part lining the bay, is pretty and an interesting place to visit. Ybor City, a tiny Cuban enclave in the heart of Tampa, has a lot of nice restaurants and shops. We had a Cuban lunch yesterday at the elegant old Columbia Restaurant, repeating a visit we made there about 15 years ago. It hadn’t changed. I also managed to find a couple of brew pubs and, despite the fact that January is a “dry” month for us, I had to sample their IPA’s. About our only complaint about the area is the incredibly strange weather we’re having. As I write this, it’s 35 degrees with rain and high winds, an absolutely miserable day. Ann has taken pity on me and is making lamb curry. That should help my mood a little.

We’ll be at MacDill until Monday, when we make the short trip to Chiefland, FL, to visit our friends Mac and Karen. We haven’t seen them since they came through Colorado on a motorcycle trip about a dozen years ago. It will be great to spend time with them. After that, we’ll travel around the Gulf Coast and land in Austin about the first of February. Who knows, maybe it will be warm in Austin!

Alan

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Florida at Last

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:46:12 -0700

After so many weeks of being stuck in big cities and bad weather, we were like racehorses heading for the feed trough as we traveled south along the Georgia coast bound for Florida. Dreams of warm, sunny days filled our heads. The trip down was fine with only a few showers.

We arrived in at the Mayport Naval Station just east of Jacksonville, FL, on the third of December and pulled into the Pelican Roost RV Park on the base. We got lucky again and were assigned Site #1, the best in the park. We were parked facing the ship channel that connects the naval base and civilian port to the ocean. We spent the week watching ships of all descriptions come and go. It was a nice distraction, particularly considering that the weather turned cool and rainy for a couple of days.

Then we found the beach. One whole side of the base is beach, long and flat and beautiful. The Atlantic stayed relatively calm during our stay, making the beach perfect for long walks and romps in the surf with Muffin. Ann and Muffin both have seawater in their blood and sand permanently lodged between their toes, so they were in heaven. We feel so exceptionally lucky to have access to military bases such as Mayport.

We spent a week at Mayport, mostly bumming around the beach and finding little pubs and seafood shacks. Our favorite was Singleton’s Seafood Shack. The “Shack” in the name is for real; the entire building is made of reclaimed wood and particle board. The walls are crooked and the floor is undulating. The building looks like it will fall over in the first wind that comes along, but it’s been there a long time so I guess its safe. A lunchtime shrimp basket goes for $6.95 and includes a baker’s-dozen large shrimp, fresh off their boat tied up out back, french fries and cold slaw. I lost count of how many shrimp I ate there. Singleton’s is a little hard to find and looks a bit seedy when you first see it, but I highly recommend a visit.

We left Mayport and fought traffic to Orlando, a mercifully short trip. We pulled into the Fort Wilderness Campground on Disney property and set up camp. Within an hour, we were at Epcot having beers and dinner. We visited Disney World ten years ago on our tenth anniversary and fell for Epcot. It’s especially nice at this time of year, as their holiday decorations are already in place. We love to wander around the property, experiencing the offerings of the different nations represented there and sampling their foods and drink. It was in the French district that I met the beautiful young mademoiselle on your left. We had a great evening, and Ann didn’t even mind!

Despite our partiality to Epcot, the rest of Disney World is fun. We visited all the properties except for the water parks: the Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and Downtown Disney. I like the Magic Kingdom the most, probably because it brings back memories from my childhood, memories of The Wonderful World of Disney TV program. My aunt and uncle had one of the first TVs in our area. I’d walk two miles to their farm and go into a trance in front of their twelve-inch black and white TV. It was truly magic, and still is. Ann really got into the spirit of things and came away with a couple of T-shirts and other goodies.We had a great time, ending each day completely worn out. We’ve already decided to return in another ten years for out thirtieth anniversary.

The Fort Wilderness Campground is nice, kind of like a nice state park campground. Buses run through the property every few minutes providing transportation to wherever you want to go. The place was pretty well packed, with many of the sites filled by people who return there every year and spend the month of December lost in the magic. Their campsites are decorated with thousands of Christmas lights and dozens of lighted Disney characters. One site even had an outdoor projection TV screen on which they continually projected Disney movies and cartoons. It’s quite a scene.

After four days—the right length of time for a couple with no kids—we said goodbye and headed south. We did an overnight stop in Key Largo and then made our way across the bridges to Key West, arriving Thursday. I’ll have a Key West report soon. Until then, stay safe and have a great holiday!

Alan

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