A Quick Update

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One of our cows awaits her turn at the outhouse.

 

I thought you might enjoy the above photo, although it has nothing to do with today's post, which is an update about our life since the sale of our home and property. Since January 11th we have been living in a fifth wheel trailer in a campground just across the state line from Chattanooga. Coming from a 2,800-square-foot house to 350 square feet of well-laid-out trailer space, we are amazingly comfortable now that we have found places for most of the stuff we intend to keep with us and have all the boxes off the floor. Anything we want to keep long-term will go in our storage unit. 

So why would we choose to downsize so radically? Three reasons, really. 

One, the obvious one; we love to travel and hope to do a great deal more of it in whatever time we have left on this earth. 

Second, we enjoy the relative freedom after years of maintaining a large home and property.

Third, and this is a very important reason -- we don't know where we would want to settle if we ever decided to live in a house or apartment again. This time in an RV will give us an opportunity to look around a bit and work out the pros and cons of various places to settle -- or not to settle at all. 

As some of you know, Louise has had serious problems with her back for many years. This Tuesday she will be having surgery to fuse vertebrae in her neck and remove bone cysts that are bearing on the nerve root. After about six weeks recuperation she will have surgery to fuse two vertebrae in her lower back. So we will be here in the travel park until sometime in May. 

After that, if all goes well, we will go to Florida for a few weeks and then return to Georgia to work on the second edition of Backroads and Byways of Georgia, which I have to complete by the end of the year. We are eager to be on the road again.

Photograph copyright David B. Jenkins 2021

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Soli Gloria Deo

To the glory of God alone 

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