The Purging Begins

This morning I spent some time packing up boxes of books to take to Half-Price books to sell. I also started a box of beading books and supplies for Amy's mom, Fay. I plan on getting rid of a lot of my beads and other art/craft supplies I don't use. In fact, a couple of months ago when we where cleaning out the garage, I went through my closet in the studio and got rid of a bunch of fabric and other sewing supplies I had been carrying around for years.

I spent last night reading pages on the Escapee website. They are an organization dedicated to full-time rv'ers. They have a lot of great information including some downloadable PDF booklets. Last night I read the one entitled, Full Time RVing: Is It For You? that reassured me that I'm not doing anything really crazy by giving up my home and going full-time in an RV.

Amy and I also talked about moving out to our mobile home in Marble Falls before buying the truck and RV so that we can save up for both. And for money while we are on the road. It is looking like that we want to travel around more then just move to Seattle area to settle down. Maybe my dream of living up there part of the year (summer time )and here in Austin part of the year (winter time) can really be a reality. And in between we can live lots of other places too.

This way we can keep the mobile home which will be paid off sometime next year. It will be our home base (our domicile) so that we can claim Texas residency (read no state income tax and other taxes lower than Washington state). Escapees even have a park 8 miles south of Port Townsend. A place I'd love to live for a while, especially during ArtFest. It is about an hour and a half from Seattle so we could visit Mom and Brian and Kelly.

I think I'm getting EXCITED!!!