Every day is a new beginning.
If you are healthy and feel good, a new day can bring wonderful possibilities!
My name is Eileen. I turned 62 exactly one month ago. I am the younger and more driven half of the Lorings. The other Loring is my husband, Charlie. He is a youthful 69 and for better or worse, is along for the ride on our life adventures.
Charlie and I just "celebrated" our 19th anniversary. We are parents of a relatively "un" blended family. Charlie's three children are substantially older than my two girls; our offspring ranging in age from 49 to 31 and being at different stages of their lives when we first met, probably accounts for a good portion of the lack of mixing in. Our kids are now all adults, most with kids of their own. As of this writing, I am expecting my first grandchild.
For a very long time I have been dreaming of retirement. I have wanted to make some changes, take some chances, do something off the beaten path but within reason as to not burn through our limited finances. So about 10 years ago, I came up with a plan.
Through Charlie, I acquired a taste for RVing. When we first met, he introduced me to his fully self-contained camper that slid into the back of his pick up truck. It was an adorable tiny living space and I became enamored with the idea of traveling with your home in tow. We used the slide on for a number of years until the squirrels ate through a wall, the roof began to leak and the hand jacks that lifted the camper up to slide into the truck bed had become rusty and too difficult to crank. Did I mention that my husband is not big on preventative maintenance? We eventually found a handy guy with some foresight and a pick up truck and gave the camper to him. As the story goes, handy guy passed the camper on to someone else and it is probably rotting away in a backyard somewhere in New England as I type this blog... (Better his yard than mine)
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