Positivity Week, Day 2: Looking To The Future
Focusing too much on the past or future is never a good thing. However, it is good to visualize what you want in life, what you want to achieve, something you want to happen even if it is just a simple vacation. For this day, let’s look to the future for a few minutes and share what good, positive things we want in the future.
It can be achieving your dream, buying a new house at a good price or even something you are really looking forward to next year. ~ Eden
The reason I created Crackingmyegg was to chronicle my journey from a 35 hour a week regular job working, living in a big house with a mortgage, two cars (at had four at one point during all this), do the same thing day in day out, rut living kind of guy, into a full time RVer. An update on that evil plan fits right in with Eden’s second prompt.
377ish days ago I launched the 500 Days Project. With 123 days left to go in that project I’m not sure I’m on track to succeed. I’ve done a lot. Most my ‘things’ are gone. Some that aren’t gone are spoken for and will go when the time comes. I still have a house. Want to buy a beautiful home in rural Alabama?
It’s 200 days until ‘Drive Away Day’. When I sell the house, I’ll use that money to purchase either a Class A or Class C motor-home, something in the 27’ to 30’ range with at least one slide. I’m looking at used with 30,000 or fewer miles and a gas engine. I’ve actually looked at a lot of motor-homes and I have learned quite a bit about them.
Here are a few:
500 Days: Progress Report 11.23.12
462 days to go
I’m fixing everything I can fix on my jeep. It will be the towed vehicle. I’m thinking about putting it on a trailer. I’ll sell my pickup truck. I’m using it as my primary vehicle right now to keep miles off the jeep.
I’ve set up one income stream and I am working on setting up another. I’m working on getting online billing and banking running smoothly. Snail mail is still a problem. I have to address that. I also have to figure out how to deal with my routine medical/dental care and BP meds on the road.
The yard is a mess but it’s better. I need to do a little paining inside the house and a through cleaning is definitely in order.
All in all, I really do think I’ll make it one time and on budget!
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Nov 12, 2013 @ 18:32:07
This is so exciting!!! Continued good luck as you prep and work out the details for your evil plan…er…for Drive Away Day!!!
I can envision you on the road having adventures and taking photos and meeting people and blogging!!! 🙂 OH! Maybe you could put together a book of your photos and your stories as you travel!!! 🙂
Hmm…a lot of cities have clinics these days so if your insurance covered them you could do emergency or routine stuff as needed on the road.
But, I guess for most med stuff, and for snail-mail, you’d have to have a home-base…maybe a close friend could receive your snail-mail, etc., and as needed during the year you could stop where they live to do your yearly medical and dental stuff and pick up meds, etc.
???
I’m just thinking outloud here. 🙂
HUGS!!! 🙂
Nov 12, 2013 @ 18:54:54
It’s the routine stuff that is a pain. I don’t know that I’ll be back to a ‘home’ base once a year. I’ve already got a two year (possible three) year trip planned to Alaska.
I don’t know that I have a close enough friend to count on for mail. There are mail services for RVers. That is probably what I’ll use for that.
I like your thinking out loud. I need feed back and ideas other than my own. hugs
Nov 13, 2013 @ 00:10:37
Alaska! How cool! (No pun intended! :-D) Ah…I didn’t even know about the mail service for RV’ers, so that sounds like the way to go. 🙂
Nov 12, 2013 @ 21:12:14
You are on your way to a wonderful adventure.
Nov 13, 2013 @ 21:35:01
I hope so my friend
Nov 12, 2013 @ 23:43:44
That’s really exciting. I hope you get everything worked out so you can get your RV.
Nov 15, 2013 @ 16:38:45
Thank you Eden. I hope so too. So many pieces have to fit together. Keep your fingers crossed.