25 days to go!

The rental contract for our house is signed.  Yesterday, I submitted my resignation with an exit date of July 5th.  Looks like we are actually doing this!

Our evenings are spent wading through piles of stuff.  It either gets boxed for storage, bagged for the trash, or put in the “sell it” pile.  It’s hard for me to tell, but Trish tells me we should be more or less done by the time we have to move out on July 1st.

The “WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!” panic attacks come and go, but we soldier on.

I’m pretty sure, anyway:

Good luck Kellogg family! You can follow their adventures here.

     What does a man need – really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in – and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That’s all – in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade.

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

-Sterling Hayden, Wanderer

In an effort to get rid of more stuff, I’ve been converting the 100 or so software CDs I have to ISO files which can be mounted as a virtual CD as needed.  A one-Terabyte drive can hold about 1,500 CDs.

I had the realization today that our year of mobile living doesn’t have to be limited to travelling by RV.  Trish and I have talked about doing a family bike tour a few times, so why not start our year with a bike tour?  I’d much rather bike tour the Desert Southwest than the Northeast, but doing the tour at the beginning has the advantage of not having to take all the camping gear, etc. in the RV.  Not to mention that there’s nothing like tent living for a few weeks to make a person appreciate the palace on wheels that is our 26-foot RV.

Another thing do ponder while I’m prepping the RV or triaging my filing cabinet…