Thoughts About Next Year

It's probably a little too early to make these kind of decisions, but we have been talking about whether or not we want to return here next year. This area is one of the best we've stayed since we started. The job is probably a little too fast paced at the front desk to suit me, and the Gift Shop is probably a little too slow for Josie. If we could find a good mix with our assignments here, we would probably come back in a heartbeat. The other factor we are considering is that the goal for this adventure is to see as much of the country as possible while we can still travel this way. We have talked about spending the entire year next year on the East coast since we will be ending the year in Florida after we leave our Amazon jobs in December. A lot depends on the availability of jobs for us and we have considered just working our way up the coast. There are some great locations that we have read about in the Carolinas for one, and upper New York state for another. It would be nice to spend an autumn in the Northeast and see the beautiful colors in that area in the fall.

Another goal of ours is to spend a summer in Alaska. That trip will probably be in 2012, as we would like to start that trip from somewhere in the West. We need to somehow schedule a trip through Arizona in the next year as we have to clean out our storage unit that we have there. After not having access to the "stuff" that we have in storage, we have decided that we can get rid of about 90% of it. It's foolish to keep paying for that storage unit but we wanted to make absolutely sure that we would like this lifestyle before letting go of our "sticks and bricks" furniture and other household items that can be replaced - for a lot less than the cumulative cost for storage. Eventually, we won't have to work so much and can probably stay for long periods with short work schedules that would be a day or two a week just to pay for our site. We're almost there. We always have our membership campgrounds which will allow us to stay for up to three weeks in an area without cost, or very minimal cost.

It is fun for us to think about the possibilities and all the places that we want to, and are able to go. Anyway, it's just some thoughts about next year...