Hump Day

Yes, today is hump day and I am sooo glad that I made it this far after a hard weekend of framing. Did I mention that I voted Friday. Did I mention that I had jury duty Monday? Gee what a busy weekend. Yes I am glad that today is hump day and I can leave soon to see my grand kids go Trick or Treating in Wills Point. We bought the two little ones their costumes. Kris is going as Spiderman and Frankie is going as a Lady Bug. They will be so cute!

Sherri and I will once again meet in Wills Point...her returning from Tyler and I will be heading that way after work here in Dallas. This is what our lives have been reduced to...both working to get enough diesel to make the first leg of our adventure.

We will start out solo on our adventure so we can work at our budget and see what adjustments we will have to make in order to stay on the road. How long we travel will be determine by the budget and how we can squeeze every mile out of it.

We plan on meeting up with as many of our friends as possible but to test our budget we have to solo on the travel so we can track our expenses and we wont be slowing down anyone in the process. I recommend this to anyone out there that is just starting out on a restricted budget like ours. If you are planning on traveling you must know what you can and can't do on the money you have allotted yourself through your budget.

Another thing to think about is how long you can stay on the road without having to return to the base camp to recoup your resources. Or maybe for a G-Kid fix LOL. Believe me I am not ashamed or embarrassed to tell anyone out there that we lost a ton of money in the Stock Market in the early 2000's due to the Dot Com crash and then again a few weeks back!!! We wont have the money we would have had years ago to retire on and travel the country. Here is the thing...we could have said...we can't do it...and given up our dream but not Sherri and I...no we just made a new plan and kept right on going.

We saved and put together every dime we could and ended up paying off our trailer truck and all the bills we had and still had money to re-invest in the safe side of the market and made money there. Sherri got a job and takes all her money and puts it up for diesel to travel on for the next five years. We will be doing OK as long as we don't go crazy and spend it all on the first adventure. This will be our goal...to travel to all the places we have always wanted to see at our own pace and stretch out our budget to make it all happen.

We will start in May of next year and I think we will head to Colorado first....We will probably go by way of Kansas City so we can see our two grandsons there...and their Mom and Dad too. We know we want to be cool in the summer and as the weather gets cooler we will track south until we return to our base camp in Wills Point. If Sherri and I ever have time to set down together we might have a trip planned out but so far we have not had one moments time together since she has started her job.

Well this is the plan and if all goes well we will be two happy campers. Oh I forgot one thing that will help us along. When Obama is elected and gets in the White House he is going to spread the wealth around so the other half of our problems will be solved! Ain't life grand??? Only in America can people that are poor collect from those that are rich!! Until next time I will go count my blessings...

Somewhere in Time