{"id":28,"date":"2007-07-07T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:21:10","slug":"theres-no-place-like-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/07\/theres-no-place-like-home\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s no place like home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere\u2019s no place like home, there\u2019s no place like home\u201d \u2013 Dorothy, Wizard of Oz<\/font><\/p>\n

Home in MT or home on the road \u2013 both are \u201chome\u201d to me as they have their comforts in space and amenities and \u201cfamily\u201d in the form of my pets, but Montana and my little corner of it are truly HOME to me and it is good to be back.<\/font><\/p>\n

There is also that poignant sadness at having completed a trip \u2013 the \u201cadventure\u201d is over, the challenge of travel done.\u00a0 <\/span>I find myself reliving in my head all of the trip \u2013 each moment had it\u2019s own flavor \u2013 humor, frustration, beauty, disappointment, joy, difficulty\u2026special people and special family the highlight!<\/font><\/p>\n

This trip had it\u2019s challenges as well as it\u2019s delights.\u00a0 <\/span>Neither will be forgotten.\u00a0 <\/span>It is the challenges though that make the fun retelling \u2026 I don\u2019t think that I would have enjoyed Rving as a younger person.\u00a0 <\/span>We have a choice when things go a bit or a lot awry\u2026we can make the best of it, look for solutions and resolutions, laugh (after a few tears) or just get angry, frustrated, down\u2026.\u00a0 <\/span>It is all perspective as far as I\u2019m concerned and as an older adult with some experience in things not going as planned, I\u2019m better now at \u201cgoing with the flow\u201d than when I was younger.<\/font><\/p>\n

My mother\u2019s words to me as a child and young adult ring in my ears often, \u201cYou can bend like the willow or stand like the mighty oak which can break in a storm or strong wind\u201d\u2026 I like to think and dearly hope that I have learned (mostly) to \u201cbend like the willow\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>And I hope that is as true for me in my everyday life as it is to me in travel.<\/font><\/p>\n

So, this homecoming \u2013 different than any other.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m still thinking about it.\u00a0 <\/span>This is the first RV trip that I\u2019ve left my house (vs rental, i.e. temp house) and been gone some time and then returned.\u00a0 <\/span>A couple of things \u2013 I was gone 24 days and from the first night gone until the last night before returning I was in the company of other RVrs or friend or family \u2013 then abruptly back to the solitude of the woods, mountains and my little house.\u00a0 <\/span>This coupled with I haven\u2019t yet been a year in this house \u2013 June-mid-Aug are always tough for me \u2013 hating heat and the busy-ness of summer\u2026\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Also abruptly comes the loss of the need to manage power \u2013 I\u2019m in a house again\u2026I can turn on the microwave and the toaster and the blender and the fan is runnning\u2026\u00a0 <\/span>power management in my motorhome is somewhat constant and tends to govern what I will fix to eat and if I\u2019ll run the vacuum, etc.\u00a0 <\/span>Not huge in the scheme of things but tending towards over-importance as I \u201cmanage\u201d comfort.\u00a0 <\/span>Suddenly, it is all different \u2013 easier but I \u201cmiss\u201d the routine that was part of travel.<\/font><\/p>\n

Now, I do NOT miss not having\u00a0my washer and dryer \u2013 I like clean, fresh clothes and bedding and I tend to overdo according to every RV park I\u2019ve ever been \u2013 at home, no one knows but me!\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

However, downside to this habit \u2013 I accidentally washed my bluetooth headset <\/font>L<\/span><\/span>\u2026\u00a0 <\/span>It is charging and has the lights that say so\u00a0\u2013 maybe it will \u201cdry out\u201d ok\u2026\u00a0 <\/span>It is the 2nd<\/sup> headset I\u2019ve washed \u2013 same situation \u2013 stuck it in a shirt pocket then threw the shirt in the washer forgetting\u2026.\u00a0 <\/span>Oh, well \u2013 I do have a couple of spares and I\u2019ve been getting Motorola email offers \u2013 maybe it is just time to upgrade???<\/font><\/p>\n

For the record, this post IS from the front porch \u2013 it clouded up a bit, temp dropped to 87 and there is a breeze \u2013 warm\/hot, but manageable\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And another thing \u2013 I gave the spiders a respite \u2013 tomorrow is soon enough\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

Bob and Karl’s version of “there’s no place like home”…<\/p>\n

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\"Bob\"<\/p>\n

\"Karl\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere\u2019s no place like home, there\u2019s no place like home\u201d \u2013 Dorothy, Wizard of Oz Home in MT or home on the road \u2013 both are \u201chome\u201d to me as they have their comforts in space and amenities and \u201cfamily\u201d in the form of my pets, but Montana and my little corner of it are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-trips"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22547,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/22547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}