The worst part of adventure

[MOAK]

This resonates with me. Stuff is a pain to maintain!!!

My life has become like living in those tiny houses… It’s like “Aim small, hit small” in shooting. When I retired, we decided to move. Going thru our “stuff” I said we are not taking things that we have carried around for 25 years. Yet still it took 2 U-Haul’s to move.

The cycle of collecting stuff, debt and the random pack rat mentality has really taken hold of many I know. I have successfully been able to break from that mentality. Besides my tools, which will never fit in this category, if I don’t use something for a year and then find it again, away it goes. Sometimes it bites me and I have to buy it again for that 1 time use but we are living small now and it feels nice. Yes I miss my garage and pole barns….but it’s just stuff.

Sometimes I do miss having my small shop that I used for everything from wrenching on my vehicles to doing light woodwork. I gave all my heavy duty tools away to a good friend, sold some other stuff. The rest of the stuff? Paid a junk collector to empty out the carriage house, two full 5 yard loads, another 5 yards out of our basement and two pickup truck loads to goodwill. I will never again tie myself down to any more stuff. here’s a sample of the kind of simple Craftsman styled woodworking I did as we restored the 1914 house . I don’t miss doing this stuff nearly as much as the fond memories my wife and I share at what we accomplished with the old house. We realized long ago that when we were traveling part time, we didn’t miss the home. When we were home, we sure did miss being in the back country.

 

[lolzhax]

Hmmm- that’s the whole point of going where we go- it’s empty- the emptier the better. If we must use interstates it would be 70 across Kansas, 80 most everywhere west of the Mississippi are two of our favorite interstate drives, when we use interstates. In the east, the drive from Albany to Erie Pa I-86 & I-88 are about as empty as it gets east of the Mississippi. Nice drives thru central and the Southern Tier of NY.

I like empty forests, rivers, streams, mountains, hills, and trees over empty barren flat landscapes.

 

[Corrie]

I like empty forests, rivers, streams, mountains, hills, and trees over empty barren flat landscapes.

Roseville = Close to all those options, too.