Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
4 September 2007I do, and we’ll be seeing it shortly. It’s time to go home.
We’re back in Tacoma today, south from Port Townsend. We really enjoyed the past few days on the Quimper Peninsula, which is a sub-peninsula of the Olympic Peninsula. Port Townsend is a fine town that I’ve written about a post or two back, and the surrounding area is just beautiful. Some of the homes we saw were absolutely charming.
Four days, at 200 miles per day, will see us back in the land of 408. The stops seem to be Salem, OR, Grants Pass, OR, Red Bluff, CA and then home. The deadline is Rosh Hashana, which is a week from Wednesday — nine days away. Actually, we could plop ourselves down anywhere for Rosh Hashana, at least, anywhere with a Chabad House, but we’ve been asked by the apartment managers to be home while they do some maintenance, so we have decided to spend Rosh Hashana at home.
We’ve been on the road for seven weeks now. By December, we want to be permanently on the road. There. I wrote it. We said we’d make a decision by Labor Day, and we have made it. When we get back, we’ll start selling, donating, giving and trashing, those things that we don’t want to take with us. After 24 years of married life, 18 of them in our current apartment, we’ve got lots of “stuff.”
Most full timers advise that storage is a losing proposition. You spend money storing stuff, and when/if you finally reclaim it, it’s not worth what you paid to store it. That said, it’s hard to part with posessions. They say that the first one to go is the hardest. Then it gets easy.
2 Responses to “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”
September 5th, 2007 at 4:31 am
Ed,
That’s quite a decision and I’m sure you will enjoy it. I hope you can stop in St. Louis one of these days.
– Art Z.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:52 am
The road goes on forever
Loves!