Walking dogs on a fall day in 2015, I said to Liz, “I am done”, I want to buy an Airstream trailer and hit the road, so I did.
When you’re done, you’re done, at least that is me. Six months after that conversation, I pulled the plug and retired. Three years earlier than I should have retired, but when you are done you are done, and I was toast.
As we recently witnessed, people in Washington D.C. don’t know when to quit. Not me!
Sold my three-story row house, got rid of my stuff, furniture, professional clothes, everything must go, and hit the Road2Reinvention.
Seven years later, I am done. Again.
Scout (the Airstream) is for sale, and today I traded my big Toyota Tundra truck for a cute little Ford EcoSport. I love Scout, but I really hated the truck.
In 2016 I bought a 19-foot Airstream. I wanted a 20’ but couldn’t find one on the used market. A year later Scout II was found in New Hampshire, a 20’ Airstream the one I originally wanted. I sold my first Scout in a week for $1,000 more than I paid a year earlier.
The 20’ Airstream is perfect, a great floor plan, a great kitchen, a big shower, it’s the best small travel trailer on the market. Not this year, in this market. Three years ago, at the height of the pandemic, I could have made a couple thousand dollars, today not a single offer.
I finished my last campground hosting at First Landing State Park, Virginia Beach. My favorite campground, and my fifth year. I am glad to finish my hosting at First Landing.
I am ready to start my next chapter.
I have rented a place on Seclusion Court in Raleigh, NC. You gotta love the name, Seclusion Court. Back to sticks and bricks, no more road, but my reinvention continues.
Stay tuned.
