To Our Retirement Plan to Buy A Winnebago and Travel All Over the States

Sell the house and buy a Winnebago. Yes, it will mean getting rid of a lot of books, but there are libraries all over the country and really, we don’t need to be weighed down anymore.

Winter in Key West

We will spend winters in south Florida, maybe all the way down to the Keys. Maybe, now that the embargo is lifted, we will hop a boat over to Cuba and listen to live music while we roam the streets in our sandals and straw hats. When we tire of the east coast, we will simply put the thing into drive and head west, through Gulf Shores and Baton Rouge. Maybe we’ll stop near Santa Fe. We’ll head west to the watch the desert bloom in the spring. We will make it to the redwoods by May, the fog just beginning to lift.

Summers up north, maybe even Canada, Victoria with its gardens and high tea. Missoula in July and we will still need our jackets. The Badlands and all the lakes in Minnesota. We follow the Mississippi down to St. Louis for the bar-b-que. Nashville in August because live country music is best in the hottest month of the year. Nashville likes old people. We’ll fit right in.

Of course, we will have to park it. We should sign up to be camp hosts for state parks. We will set up a little patio and hammer a post into the ground that says “Welcome, Friend!” Families pull in with tents strapped to the top of the car. They want to know the best place to fish, where the sandy beach is.

Living the dream of Camp Host
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We will lie to them every time. At a park near Little Rock, we will make up stories about 10-pound bass caught every day last week. In Maine, we will tell them the nuclear reactor spilled 3 years ago and none of the water is safe. I can see you doing this, beautiful husband of mine. You can never resist. You have been making up stories our whole life and finally, I get it. When the sun goes down, we turn on the small twinkle lights above our lawn chairs. We will leave before they realize nothing we said is true. We will become legends in the park system. Who needs books when we will live the stories in them?