The Road to Nowhere
Within a 14 month period, my 19 year marriage ended, my only 2 children left for college and I became disabled and unable to work at the job I loved for 11 years. Because of this disability, I live with severe chronic pain every day of my life, and have had to give up many hobbies and pastimes. I can no longer afford to pay mortgage, utilities, car payment and insurance on my disability pay.
I am trying to take lemons and make lemonade...
I am selling almost all my possessions and hitting the road! I plan on visiting many states and camping in a tent, enjoying nature and beauty that is all around me.
My only income will be my Social Security Disability check of about 1200 per month. Can I pay for gas, car payments, insurance, Doctor bills, psupplies and food on this? That is my challenge. I will be documenting everywhere I go, deals I find, and tips and tricks I learn along the way.
I feel like I may be the only person crazy enough to do this, or even to dream it! Then I found:
Bernie and Mar at Bellaontheroad.blogspot.com, Suzi Dow at Forestcamping.com, andLynn Limpari at http://lynnsroadtrip.homestead.com
What an inspiration they have been to me! These women are my heroes. I hope to one day meet them on the road of life on the road!
Send me an email or fill out the comment form and let me know what you think of this venture. I welcome advice, help, tips, tricks, donations, canned beans and weenies, whatever ya got!
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"Every single person on this Earth knows something that you don't. So listen carefully."
This is my philosophy. I live by these words. I am not a chatty person. I really don't like mindless banter of trivial meaning....like the back and forth type stuff with the cashier at the grocery store. The "HI how are you? How's your family? How's work?" type stuff because I think that people really don't care, they only say it out of habit, and don't really listen to the answer anyway. It is this type of banal conversation that makes me hate talking on the phone. However, I believe that everyone, young, old, rich, poor, black, white, etc, Knows something meaningful. Can teach me something. Can make me richer by learning from them. Has experienced things I will never experience (except through their eyes). I suppose if I have to wade through the fluff to get to it, I will.