A New Start

After nearly 5 months of hard work and good luck we are finally back to heading out again. It has been an eventful time and what seemed like a crazy idea and a fantasy last January has actually come to pass. As we sat in our cozy rig sipping our morning coffee in a wildlife preserve near Madera Canyon in Arizona last winter we got the idea of how to travel longer and further. So we came home, rested up for a couple of weeks, and put what seemed like a far fetched plan into action. There were a lot of adversities and set backs, but things fell together for us and we managed to finish the remodeling of our 'back room/mud room, finish all the details on our house that we had been ignoring, such as exterior shingling on the back bedroom wall, baseboards, wiring that didn't get covered.etc, and sort, pack, and store over 30 years accumulation of "stuff" that were spread out over several acres, (phew), found tenants for our house for at least a year, had several great going away parties and goodbyes and are on the road for a long adventure this time. We have found our way through the logistics of mail, bills, communications, etc and while we will miss our friends and family we are really excited to be having this adventure. 

That is now us. We have got our new business up and running and are excited to be starting this chapter in our lives. So you will have to put up with a little advertising every once in a while. We plan to become dealers and installers for AM Solar out of Oregon and be one of their mobile installer for their products. Steve has completed the training program with them (in the middle of the craziness of moving our stuff) and with our already extensive background in installing and living with solar for the last 25 years, we think it is a good fit for us. And Steve has already successfully installed a system for his first customer. Yay! We hope to be able to supplement our incredibly meager retirement income and continue to travel as we do it. Sounds like a fantasy for now, but we hope to make it be a reality. While there is not a lot of demand for solar on RV's for locals in the rainy northwest, the sunny winter travelers are jumping on this technology. So since sunny warm winters is what we are looking for, this just might be the way for us. We will return to the northwest in spring/summer, or before if needed, but for now we are happy to be back on the road.