Over the weekend, we turned in our keys to our rental house and parked our Alfa SeeYa at our new home in a RV park in Largo, FL. It wasn’t a far move, but it’s now official, we are full-timers.
I’m glad that we took the “training wheel” path and started living in the RV in the back yard of our rental house. Things were already in place and it seems to be a fairly easy transition, but we are still early in our adventure. When we were parked in the backyard of the rental house, we didn’t use the shower or bathroom so that we wouldn’t fill the black and grey water tanks. We would trapse accross the yard to use the house bathroom. It wasn’t too bad really, but now that we are at the RV park with full hook-ups, it’s so much nicer.
So far, the biggest transition is caring for our three little wiener dogs. We were used to a fenced in yard and it was so easy to simply let them out anytime the would wine at the door. They pretty much would go in and out as they pleased. We all were spoiled in that respect.
Now that we are here at the RV park, we must make sure the dogs are on leases and take them to the dog area. It’s not bad really, just an adjustment. Robert and I both feel it’s good for all of us because we feel we all get exercise. We have found ourselves making more plans to involve the dogs for outings.
We are concerned about the dogs hearing noises from cars or neighbors when we are gone and barking up a storm. We’ve decided to turn on the radio for background noise when we are gone. We hope it’s working, at least we haven’t gotten any complaints from our neighbors yet.
The neighborhood seems more friendly in the RV park and both Robert and I seem to have a peacefulness about us. We both have to work and typically there is a certain amount of stress that goes along with it, but something about the RV atmosphere has made us both more relaxed.
