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Life Really Is Like That Proverbial Box Of Chocolates.

© Barry Houseknecht

Life really is more like that proverbial box of chocolates than we might like to think. Here is just how fast your life can change completely. Last month my wife and I were just avid part-time Rvers. My wife and I both had what we thought were good secure jobs. Our plan was to work at these jobs until the spring of 2003 when hopefully we could follow our dream of traveling, working doing some volunteer work and seeing this great country of ours.

Now here it is less than a month later. My wife was laid off from her job after 15 years with no notice. Luckily she found another job almost within a week, with nearly the same income and benefits. We resolve to make some adjustments to our lifestyle that will allow our travel plans to stay on track. With a sigh of relief we go back to our daily routines and then you guessed I was laid off. As for me wasn't quite so lucky the only employment that I was able to find in my field is approximately 70 miles away from home.

The choices as I saw them were to stay at home and draw unemployment and slowly go broke. Or fire up motorhome that had been in storage, move it to an RV park near my new job and live in it during the week and visit my wife on the weekends. Well I did the latter I have been living in motorhome for about two weeks and the new job is going quite well.

As for our being able to maintain our planned schedule for spring of 2003, it is a little up in the air at this time. Our dilemma is that we want work and camp in the "north" during spring and summer and return south for the winter. So don't don't get that early spring jump then as we see it we might as well stay where we are until the following spring I don't need to tell you that the thought of having to wait another year is very depressing to me.

Times are different now than they were a year or so ago or even a few months past. The economy has been down and a concern for all of us. The attacks of September 11 have shaken our country to the core. All of us need to take stock of where we are in our lives and what we want do with our future. After we do I would suggest to you that one needs to develop a plan "B, and maybe even a plan "C". Through the recent events in our lives have we realized that having only one direction to reach a goal may not be sufficient, we must be aware, ready and flexible.

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