Life on the Road

Life on the road can be amazing. You get an opportunity to see so many different and beautiful places. You also get an opportunity to experience things so differently than you would if you choose to stay planted in one place during your retirement. No matter how much you desire to be in perfect locations at the perfect time with the perfect weather, it doesn’t always happen.

Some sites that were full now sit empty

We’ve been planted in the Phoenix area much longer than we had hoped. Normally April is a gorgeous month with gorgeous spring weather. This April has been unique. We’ve gone from a high temperature that reached 100 degrees down to a high of half of that within a week’s time. As a matter of fact, even the Superstition Mountains received a good dusting of snow. That’s beautiful to look at but it tells about the unusually cool weather and rain the area has received.

Some winter visitors are still around and in the RV parks. Others have started their trek north for the summer. We see them packing up for their migration north. Summer is just around the corner and very few of the winter guests intend to hang around the desert during the heat of the summer.

Some folks have their summer plans all figured out and reservations made. Our plans definitely aren’t that well organized. We can’t even decide which way is best to head to Washington State. One minute we thought it was Utah but after checking the weather, figured this might be a better option for early fall. Next we thought about California but some of the places we thought we would stay have been washed out with all the rain. Who knows? Only time will tell but what we need most right now is to be able to get on the road.

We do have lots of plans for the summer months from spending time with family, taking a few plane trips, camping on the coast and even visiting an RVer friend on Whidbey Island. All we need is for the weather to cooperate just a bit but this is what life on the road is all about … waiting, planning and then going.