RV Poetry

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While waiting for one dream to materialize what can you do?

Why, live another!  We are moving to a rental condo on the beach, as in on the beach, not across from the beach or two blocks from the beach. While we wait for the pieces to fall in place for our dream to RV and spend time at an RV resort in the Pacific Northwest, we will just live another one, walks at sunrise and late evening on a quiet beach, just steps from our temporary home. So, we will settle for a “recreation vehicle” rather than an RV - and smile doing it.

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When you want to become a full time RVer or at least 3/4 time, you must learn to let go of things - and space. We moved from 1746 square feet to around 400. A step in the right direction, though it was not intentional, just all we could find cheap in a hurry when we moved back to Florida.

This move we are going up, to 640 square feet or so. I don’t think that is conducive to learning to live with less in a considerably smaller space, do you?

I do think it would be easier for us to live in a smaller space if we were in the Pacific Northwest where the climate is great and we could be outside more. So, hopefully, when the time comes, we can make the adjustment completely to less is more, we know it is true, but not here in Florida, for us.

Tags: moving, small space

Leon loves large spaces, not that he has lived in many most would deem large. However, in a hurried move to Florida, we landed in a 400 square foot apartment two room apartment. It would not be that bad really if it were not for the window shakers (A/C wall units). They blow hard and in your face through most of the room. Since we are working at home most days the desks take up so much room, we live in our comfortable desk chairs. There would be room for a small couch if we didn’t have to avoid the A/C. So, we are not happy here.

Same space with central air and multi use furniture would be usable in spite of our desks, tight, but usable. It was also designed with more space in the bedroom than need be, but again, the window shaker negates much of the usable space.

Last night he said that living for long periods in an RV would be a major adjustment, and though he is right on the one hand, I just had to (grin) remind him just how much he was already there in a manner of speaking.

In this apartment he spends 90% of his day/evening in one small corner of the apartment. He works there; eats there, by shoving his laptop to one side; watches DVDs on his laptop, his back does not allow him the “luxury” of reclining in bed and enjoying TV or reading there for long. He, also, turns slightly to watch TV which shares the same 6 foot long desk. He does get up to walk around the bookcase and counter into the kitchen to grab a snack. And it is a walk of a whole 9 steps or so to the bathroom and a couple more to the bedroom, but he does not lounge in either space.

So, a park model with central air that has a good floor plan would be a vast improvement over this apartment; same square footage, better use of space. Tah dah! And, a large RV would be almost comparable, but we do not want to drive a large RV.

But, realizing he stares at one small wall most of the day (except when he turns to throw work at me, or rather my desk on the opposite wall) and that in an RV parked where we want it there would be a view and lots of outdoor time, it wouldn’t be much different - well except the fabulous closets, the one thing this apartment owner did right! But I suppose that just means yet more downsizing.

Point made.

Tags: apartment living, park model, RV, small spaces