August 25, 2014

August 25, 2014

Today we sold the RV. For the last few years, as a lark, we put the motorhome up for sale every time we returned from a trip. This time somebody called our bluff. It is a bittersweet event. This motorhome has been our companion for all nine summers of Our Big Adventure. She has gotten us up close and personal with all the wonderful National Parks of this country. But like us she is aging and needs frequent maintenance.

As we close this chapter, we can’t help but reminisce about our journeys with her. We bought her without a lot of forethought but ended up traveling with her 76,000 miles, equivalent to 25 coast-to-coast trips. We slept in her 528 nights, almost a year and a half of our life. She guzzled expensive gasoline, over $22,000. While that is a lot of money, we bought her for less than a new car and she saved us tons of money we would have spent on hotel rooms and restaurants.

But ultimately we didn’t travel with her to save money; it was a lifestyle choice. Owning a motorhome meant we could travel like the wind, stopping wherever and whenever we wanted. No searching for hotel rooms; no unpacking needed. We slept in more than one parking lot, riverbank, cliff side, and deserted forest site. We had countless lunches on roadside pullouts with million-dollar views.

We may be moving into a new phase but Our Big Adventure is not over. There are still many sites to see and experiences to discover in this world. Who knows, another newer motorhome may yet be in our future.