December 19, 2023 – Traveling with Rich & Julie
Home is wherever your heart is
Rich and I have lived in a lot of places since we met in 1985.
We both grew up having lived in the same house our whole lives. Rich may have moved one time when he was a young child but doesn’t remember much about the house before.
My mother still lives in the same house my dad was born in. He died in that house and so will she. She says that no other place could ever feel like home to her.
It’s not that I don’t have a home mentality, it’s just that I like change and so does Rich.
We started out in an apartment and then moved to a mobile home in a trailer park. We went to Florida and lived with friends for a few months before renting our first house. We rented a second house in Florida before moving back home to Ohio.
We bought our first house in Ohio after our first child was born and lived there for five years.
Having outgrown that house with three children, we bought a larger one. We lived there for sixteen years when we had to declare bankruptcy and give it up.
At that time we moved to a town twenty miles away where we both worked and rented a house. When they sold the house we were renting, we lived in three separate apartments until we found the house we were living in when we decided to become full-time RVers.
We lived in that house for nine years and now have been in the RV since April of 2022, not quite two years.
Since moving into the RV we have lived in many places. Each place is different but our home is the same. It’s really great to just close up and take our home with us wherever we go.
It is comfortable, and it is home. As long as we are together, we are happy with whatever type of dwelling we live in. I can make any place feel like home. I wonder where we will live tomorrow.
What does home mean to you?