A New Year

Pike's Peak

We are back!!

We are starting a new year and a new blog and a new chapter in our peripatetic lives! The house in Hawai'i is sold...we spent the month of December sorting through the accumulated "stuff" from almost two years. Some things we sold; some were tossed; many were given away to friends; and the rest was packed and shipped to our new "base of operations" in Colorado. We left Hawai'i with mixed emotions...many people asked, "What are you THINKING?"...but despite the beauty and mystique of the Big Island, it is one of the most remote places on earth, and both of us felt too detached from our families on the continent. That, coupled with the difficulties of owning a relatively high-maintainance property which we lived in only 4-5 months each year, was enough to convince us to pull the plug. The experience of planning and building the house...not to mention growing our own bananas, guavas, tangerines, lemons, pineapples, limes, etc. will never be forgotten. We will miss all of our friends and the aloha spirit, but we plan to return in the future.

Another motivation to relocate has been our enduring desire to return to the RVing life. Our experiences from two years of full-timing (2005-2007) kept calling us back to life on the road. Call it crazy with gas prices what they are, but we both have always had a "burr under our saddle"...we have nomadic gypsy blood in our veins. Perhaps if we had saltwater instead, we might have become wandering sailors? So we intend to start shopping for a motorhome to replace our beloved ROTR (a 24-foot Class C named Rumi On The Road) which we shipped to the Big island, lived in during construction, but sold after we moved into the new house. The new rig will probably be a larger Class A which will be our "home" for six months of the year when we are not settled into our cozy cottage on Afton lake in Prince Edward Island, Canada. This will give us the opportunity to visit friends and family who are scattered over much of North America.

Another motivation is our love affair with train travel...well, David has a love affair with trains; Katie is more enamoured with travelling by train! So expect to see some visits to excursion trains as well as long-distance journeys on some of the classic passenger trains in both the U.S. and Canada.

So, join us again as we embark on another "grand adventure." Visit this blog and our companion web albums at www.picasaweb.google.com/piscesman1946