{"id":184,"date":"2011-11-22T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2012-09-09T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T17:55:18","slug":"counting-the-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/counting-the-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting the weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Thanksgiving week which, in addition to turkey and cranberry jelly (which I truly don&#8217;t like, but don&#8217;t shoot me), means a short work week. Which brings us one easy week closer to hitting the road. The current count, not counting this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>44 weeks to departure (if we leave October 1, 2012)<\/li>\n<li>40 weeks to my retirement (assuming I work to the end of August)<\/li>\n<li>31 weeks to Jett&#8217;s retirement (assuming she works to the end of June)<\/li>\n<li>16 weeks until we actually become RV owners (assuming we complete the purchase by the middle of March)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can&#8217;t hardly wait!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I am thinking about how to earn money in 2013 (see <a title=\"Workcamping\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/P1VniU-2S\">&#8220;Workcamping&#8221;<\/a>) and planning, at a macro level, how our first 6 months on the road will play out. Here are my current thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leave October 1 and head south in small steps, stopping no more than 2 nights in any location.\u00a0 We need short trips to gain driving skills and confidence and a lot of set-up\/tear-down experience with the RV.\u00a0 And maneuvering it into campsites.<\/li>\n<li>Spend a week with Jett&#8217;s family in Virginia.<\/li>\n<li>Head west, though WV, KY and MO to arrive at the Grand Canyon by early November.\u00a0 Jett&#8217;s #1 &#8220;bucket list&#8221; item is seeing the Grand Canyon.<\/li>\n<li>Head northwest, to my sister&#8217;s home in Tillamook, OR, for Thanksgiving.<\/li>\n<li>Head south, probably ending up in San Diego by early January.<\/li>\n<li>Stay in San Diego until mid-April.\u00a0 This would be 3 or 4 months of workcamping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These plans are subject to change without notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Thanksgiving week which, in addition to turkey and cranberry jelly (which I truly don&#8217;t like, but don&#8217;t shoot me), means a short work week. Which brings us one easy week closer to hitting the road. The current count, not counting this week: 44 weeks to departure (if we leave October 1, 2012) 40 &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/counting-the-weeks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}