One week from today Jett and I hand the keys to our house over to the renters.\u00a0 At that moment we will have no place to live other than our fifth wheel.\u00a0 This is a condition known amongst the traveling crowd as “sticks and bricks homelessness”, abbreviated to “s&b homeless” when talking to other RVers.\u00a0 It seems that “s&b” is part of the lexicon of fulltimers and conveys a certain disdain for those who are stuck in houses that cannot move.<\/p>\n
We are now down to those last, irrevocable tasks that will confirm our fulltimer status: giving away or storing the final pieces of furniture, selling the second vehicle, cancelling newspaper delivery, arranging for the cable company to remove their hardware.\u00a0 I also donated four boxes of books – a mix of technical and fiction and over 300 in all – to a local charity.\u00a0 That was hard for me as some of those books have been with me since college.\u00a0 I had nearly a full set of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries – most of them printed over 40 years ago.\u00a0 But there is simply no room in an RV for pleasure reading material (yes, we may take a campground directory, a couple of blogging texts, and perhaps a couple of issues or Reader’s Digest<\/em> for the commode, but no fiction) – I will get paperbacks as necessary and will discard ruthlessly.\u00a0 Perhaps I will get a Kindle.\u00a0 But we are NOT turning our fiver into a mobile lending library.<\/p>\n I was feeling pretty confident that we wouldn’t have more stuff than would fit. But now, seeing the final set of boxes that need to be carted up to NH, I am not so sure.\u00a0 It is going to be packed. We will probably have to do some final weeding that second week of September, before we hit the road.<\/p>\n Maybe we can have a yard sale at the campground.\u00a0 Good stuff from the newly s&b homeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One week from today Jett and I hand the keys to our house over to the renters.\u00a0 At that moment we will have no place to live other than our fifth wheel.\u00a0 This is a condition known amongst the traveling crowd as “sticks and bricks homelessness”, abbreviated to “s&b homeless” when talking to other RVers.\u00a0 … Continue reading