Changing Course

It's time for a change

I'm tired of that same ol' same
The same ol' words the same ol' lines
The same ol' tricks and the same ol' rhymes

~ Boats to Build - Jimmy Buffett

We bought an RV!! 

We are switching from waterways to byways and highways! We have loved the six years we have spent boating. It is bittersweet to give up chasing those elusive perfect days on the water when the sun glimmers and turns the bay into a beautiful path of diamonds before us. We will miss tying up at The Big Owl for great music and fish tacos, buzzing around the Magothy River, trips to St. Michaels, and being rocked to sleep by swirling currents and the soothing sound of rippling water. We have loved all of the precious moments spent with family and friends on the water and will cherish those memories forever. We were indeed Lucky Enough to spend so many days and nights Sol Searching. 

Here's the BUT and our REASON WHY for changing course -- there are so many places to go and things to see and a boat can only take us so far. 

We have researched, gone to RV shows, watched countless hours of YouTube videos, and I've listened to podcasts galore. We have planned and plotted and researched. We signed up for the RV Life app and Harvest Hosts, which will provide opportunities to stay in some pretty cool places, planned our trip to Tampa to pick up our coach, and we are excited to get started!

I revisited my favorite poem when we were thinking about making the change to a "land yacht", as Greg likes to call it. This poem has spoken to me many times, and once again, it did not disappoint. 

The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

~Mary Oliver

I want to make more time to pay attention, spend more time taking notice, and strolling through fields and taking in the grasshoppers, swans, and black bears. I want to drink in beauty, make memories with Greg, our family, and our friends. This is what I want to do with my one wild and precious life as we travel along in our new RV.

Check back soon to read all about our adventure to pick up the RV in Tampa!!