Once we found our “dream” motorhome, our next big hurdle besides selling the house was reducing our belongings.

Letting go of years of accumulated “things” was what we had expected to be our biggest challenge however it turned out to be easier than we had initially thought. Getting our heads around the concept that “things” are only material assets that tie you down wasn’t as hard to grasp as determining what we truly did need versus what we thought we needed. Moving from 7200 square feet into a little over 300 square feet wasn’t difficult either especially when everything is so well put together in a motorhome. We actually lived aboard the coach parked beside our home for five full months while we waited for the right buyer to come along and we quickly felt more at home in it than in the bricks and mortar one. We have reduced our “things” into boxes that would fit into a small 6 x 6 space and put them in storage for some day in the future when we permanently park our rig.

For us, fulltiming gave us the ability to be in Vancouver, BC for three months waiting for our grandson, Makai to be born and three months after to enjoy his development. We will be returning there again this summer while we await the birth of his sibling, due in July. It allowed us to spend the last summer in Ontario visiting with our other children, our siblings and our mothers. We see places other people only dream about and we try to go where the good weather is. If we find a place we particularly like we stay until we want to move on and if we arrive someplace we don’t like, we simply go elsewhere. And do we miss having the responsibility of maintaining a stationary home, the property taxes, gardening, lawn mowing and shovelling snow? heck no!