Our Comfort Zone

We're into our third week as fulltimers, and we've found something very important.

We found our comfort zone.

Yes, these days, our comfort zone is a spacious pull-through at a super-friendly park just off the highway in the westernmost part of Oregon. It's a special place filled with good friends and great people. It was the perfect place to spend week number two in our life as fulltimers. We shared stories, laughs, plans for the future, good food, wine and stuff that looks like wine. Each day started with coffee (if we were up early enough) and sometimes muffins, and each evening began with a community happy hour. In between, we explored the coast, picked up a few geocaches and snapped a bunch of great looking pictures that will seal this very special week in our memories. We really like it there!

This morning we didn't really want to leave.

In fact, we could imagine ourselves spending the rest of the summer there.

It would've been a whole lot of fun.

As we readied ourselves to hit the road, we reflected on the conversations of the week.

A few days ago, a neighbor asked us where our "home park" was. When we explained we were newbie fulltimers and didn't yet have a park to call home, she responded with a big smile.

"Oh! You're exploring!" she said, and assured us we'd find a place to settle down when the time was right. Meanwhile, she wished us many happy and trouble-free miles.

Our own Godfadda told us we needed to get out there on the road, on to the next chapter of our fulltiming adventures. (And, we don't think he was just trying to get rid of us!)

This morning, his lovely bride Juanita captured the lesson of the day.

"It's time for you to get out of your comfort zone," she said. And, boy was she right.

One of the greatest things about fulltiming is the freedom. If you want to keep the jacks down and hang out awhile you can. If you want to go, you can do that to.

We're learning that there are days when as much as you want to stay, it really is time to go. As newbie fulltimers we are out here to explore. Our mission is to see the country and meet great people. To do that, we need to go places...and keep on stepping outside our comfort zone.