Originally the plan was to move into our Newell to begin fulltiming the fall of 2011. That time table has just been accelerated to February 1st, 2011! Elaine and I have been talking about this since the summer, and now things have finally lined up for us to take the next step. Two of our children have agreed to lease our Ontario, CA home starting that date, which will in turn free up money in our budget to pay off the balances on our short term debt before we retire. We're looking for a park hosting position in one of the local county RV parks, but will be "renting" a spot until something opens up. We'll continue to work at our paying jobs, and live locally until next October and then hit the road.
Soooooo, we've got about 5 weeks to wrap things up in our home, and remove the stuff our kids don't want to use, which will really be much easier than renting to strangers and having to clear out the house completely. We did a major house cleaning about 10 months ago, so the hardest part is done.
We are very excited about beginning this new phase of our lives, and really looking forward to visiting as many of our Newell friends in the next few years as possible as we work our way around this great country. If you are interested, we have a blog called "Our Newell Adventure" that I started about a year ago to document our travels, and it's URL is:
http://whatsnewell.blogspot.com. We hope you will enjoy it!