Since I have a living quarters horse trailer now, I have recently been so intrigued by people who sell their houses and live in an RV full-time. It sounds so freeing to not have a house to maintain and spend money on. I have read two books, one is Full-time RVing by Bill and Jan Moeller and the other is Great RV Trips by Charles Cadieux. I find the traveling lifestyle very fascinating.
Ideally, I would like to sell my house in St. Louis, Missouri and base myself out of Northern Michigan. I could live in Michigan four or five months out of the year and travel with my horses the rest of the year. Last winter I traveled to Tucson, Arizona with two horses and I am planning on doing that again this winter with my horses. The time I spend in St. Louis is short because after traveling to the southwest I come home to Missouri for just two months then I head up north to Michigan.
I can only take two horses with me while I am traveling and that means that one horse would be left back somewhere. That makes it more challenging because it is difficult to monitor and know what is going on with that horse while I am gone. But it can be worked out. Right now, I have one horse still in Missouri who is taken care of by my neighbor and that is working out fine. The important thing is to have someone very reliable taking care of that horse.
More challenging than the horses is selling furniture and getting down to just the things I want up here in the Michigan house, maybe a few things in storage but then the remaining items would need to be sold. And I would want to sell my house as well. That is going to be a lot of work. But I read about many people who have sold their houses and done what I want to do.
If I keep saying how hard it is going to be, then I am allowing the house to hold me down. It is going to be hard but I am sure it was hard for other people too and they managed to do it. I don't want the fact that something is hard to stop me from going forward with this change. I can do things step by step and break things down in to smaller tasks.
I am planning this fall to get a few major things done to the house such as repairing the front porch, putting a new roof on and continuing to sort through furniture and household items. Doing these things will help get it ready for listing in the spring of 2011.
One way I can feel if a decision is right for me is by my excitement level. When I think of making this change, I know that I have a lot of work ahead of me, but I feel excited about the future and what my life will be like. I feel energized. I can already envision my life and that helps motivate me to simplify my life.
Here is a view of a Michigan sunset on Sleeping Bear Bay from our beach--
