May 2018 Preparing

In late April, Leslie turned in her retirement notice to her very surprised Boss. She had 22 days of PTO to use during the month of May. So Leslie went from working five days a week (and on call 24/7) to sorting, packing, donating and selling 30 plus years of accumulated stuff since we had to be out of the apartment in early June. Not exactly a relaxing transition into retirement. During the month, we got the RV repaired, David went and got his Class A Exempt drivers license and shuttled stuff to either the storage room or the RV. United RV allowed us access to our RV in the storage lot when ever they were open so we could get things prepared. The last weekend of the year we moved the RV from the storage lot to the front lot where we could run out the slide outs and run the air conditioners while we shuttled stuff from the storage unit and apartment to the RV and got it packed. Finally on 28 May we picked up the Wanderer and pulled it up to The Vineyard RV park in Grapevine Texas. This is by far the nicest RV park in the DFW area and we got a beautiful spot right on the lakefront. The rate was $52 a night. The pad was relatively level. Water pressure was excellent as was the WiFi signal. From the 28^thof May and on, we were living out of the Wanderer and making trips into Fort Worth to finish cleaning out the apartment. Everything we seemed to try to do, people and organizations threw roadblocks in our way. From something as simple as having an apartment sale to changing our address on accounts, there were always additional steps or checks that had to be accomplished before we could get it done. But we drove forward, determined to persevere and get on the road.