Transitioning to the Transition

It must have been in late January or early February when Suzy asked me one morning what I thought about selling the house and traveling the country in an RV for a year. I wasn't expecting this question from my resident nester. Suzy has always found the most comfort in her home surrounded by familiar surroundings and umbilicalized to the community through the library and school. So I wasn't sure she was serious but just in case, I displayed excitement about this idea. From this one conversation our resolve and interest only increased.

We decided that there wasn't a better time on our lives to take a year and put the show on the road. Suzy would be retiring from life as an educator after 38 years in June. Tom was looking for an excuse to get out of the consulting business which was becoming too much like work. We were both healthy and our kids lives were aligned to us being mobile. Timing isn't everything, but it greases the skids of major decisions. Our previous travels in life (three years in Europe) had taught us we could not only cope with travel but thrive on it. So we now had another dream to follow. Suzy, the bibliophile, had read about practically every area of the U.S. and Canada but not visited many of them. Tom had done lots of job related travel but had not had the chance to spend much free time in his travels.