Finally getting ready for launch

[waldenbound]

Hello all, 
I'm back. Actually never left, I stay logged on all day, habit. 
I got my freedom papers, gave notice at work, sold my condo in one day. My launch date is April 27, give or take a day. 
Me and my neighbor have been deep cleaning for all of March. I've got tendinitis in my hand from scrubbing so much. Everything is gone, except for a few pieces of furniture, and the stuff going to the dump in the last load. 

Collapsing my life, that's what it feels like. My old life is collapsing with everything I push over the side of the dump.

I'm incredibly sad to leave work. Retirement, can hardly believe it. At least for once in my life, I had the chance to work in paradise. Eleven days of work left. Buy stock in Kleenex, it's going up. 

Starting to move things in the van. I was freaking out at first, it seemed like I still had so much crap, but most of it was in half filled boxes. Everything so far is fitting. 

When I'm at home like this, I start You Tube surfing, and I get so incredibly excited to leave. I got the gear, I got the skills, I'm ready to do  this. 

This month, later this month I will be on the road. May we meet someday under a big desert sky.

[Texjbird]

  Whooppe!  I'm very very happy for you too.

Jewellann

[Cammalu]

Yahooooo. Where are you heading first???

[rvpopeye]

Whichever way the wind blows ?
(that helps with gas mileage)

[waldenbound]

I called Coyote Howls, but the east camp closes April 30 for the season. So, I went to plan B, got a mailbox in Pahrump, and will do my 30 days in a campground, get a bank account, maybe some casino club card from the Nugget, make it look like I'm getting established. Get my Nevada license and registration, sign up with the local VA hospital. Establish a domicile.

After that, part of me is jonesing to go to the eastern Sierras, around Bishop, Big Pine, Lone Pine. I think it gets really hot there too, so maybe Flagstaff, Grand Canyon, Lowell Observatory, then start looking for tribe for winter camp.
I'll go to the Sierras next summer. Too many places I want to go, and I want to go now!

[Cammalu]

I hear ya! I want to go too many places and NOW too!!!

[AbuelaLoca]

Woo hoo!!! So very very happy for you! Can't wait to see where you wind up!!

[cute Annie]

I called Coyote Howls, but the east camp closes April 30 for the season. So, I went to plan B, got a mailbox in Pahrump, and will do my 30 days in a campground, get a bank account, maybe some casino club card from the Nugget, make it look like I'm getting established. Get my Nevada license and registration, sign up with the local VA hospital. Establish a domicile.

This is very helpful for Newbies to know what to do. Thank you.
Will you be working at the VA hospital ?

[waldenbound]

This is very helpful for Newbies to know what to do. Thank you.
Will you be working at the VA hospital ?

Just getting care there.

[Ballenxj]

Congrats on your plans coming together.  Pahrump is a neat little town that has been growing.