A Final Farewell

We watched our beloved Therapy leave our driveway this morning for the last time – with someone else at the wheel.  


We sold it to a couple from New Mexico, Bob and Diana.  Bob will be 86 in a couple of months and is a former Lazy Daze owner.  He wanted a new rig but the wait now to have one built is a year!!  Bob and Diana were happy to get the motor home and the Fit and we were glad they went to a good home.  Sorta like re-homing your pup!!  (well, maybe not quite!!)





Russ drove the Toyota and they followed him out to the freeway.  He got them headed southbound on I-5 so they are on their way home.  Good luck Bob and Diana and enjoy the rig.

As for us, I think we are done with travel.  If we want to go somewhere, we will stay at Mr. Marriott’s campground and let him take care of the maintenance and upkeep!  He can even make the bed and serve us a free breakfast!

I have nothing but the greatest respect for those who choose to travel in RVs so please do not think I am disrespecting you at all.  We have had an RV of one type or another most of our married lives – and we have enjoyed them.  We both grew up “camping” with our families and we continued that lifestyle with our kids.  Our dream was to continue that lifestyle into our retirement years.

But things have changed.  Russ has had too many problems with his diabetes for us to be comfortable with him driving the motorhome for long distances.  I can drive it, but I don’t enjoy it.  Plus the Lazy Daze seemed a lot smaller than we thought it was going to be and we just weren’t all that comfortable – especially when traveling with our poochies!!

And speaking of poochies – we are very happy with our two little mini-Aussies (actually they are registered now as Miniature American Shepherds).  I guess we found that we like dogs more than we like to travel.  Both dogs do great in the car and are fine day travelers but Ollie has problems with being in places that are new to him.  If you think of a child with autism, that would be about how Ollie reacts.  He cannot help it, it is just the way he is wired. He cannot handle too much sensory input.  We are helping him learn to deal with his issues but it is taking time, medication and patience to work through it all.  One trip in the motorhome with Ollie was about all I wanted to do!!



We LOVE where we live – our old house, our big backyard, and our geographic location.  We can be at the lake or either one of our two local rivers in a matter of minutes.  We can be at the coast in an hour or in the mountains in just a little over an hour.  And I can do more of the driving and give Russ a break!!  

So don’t feel bad for us – we are right where we need to be and are still enjoying life.  I may write about our day trips from time to time or about our adventures with our little dogs.  It won’t be an RV blog but I feel I have become friends with so many of you that I don’t want to totally give up that sense of community.  I was going to start a whole new blog but what the heck - I LIKE you people!! I guess if what I write is of no interest to anyone then I will still have a written record for my own purposes.

And if any of you are in the Eugene area, please give us a call.  We’ll be here!!