Preparation

Maureen retired first after 38 years of teaching.  Her last 15 years had been spent in the elementary Gifted/Talented classroom. 

She took the helm of preparing the house to be sold.  Quite the daunting task!  Over the next year, we sorted, cleaned, donated, painted, and stored.  Of course, there were some items we wanted to store, so we rented a 10'x15' controlled climate storage room at U-Haul.  (Hope to never see our unit on "Storage Wars"!)  After a year, we decided to list the house and continue the task of sorting, etc.  Afterall, it takes several months before a house sells, right?  Wrong!  And I even thought we had listed the house too high!  We had a full asking price offer within 40 hours!  And had to close in 20 days!  We were not ready!

Somehow, at the end of that month, we had finish moving out, stored what we wanted, and donated or trashed the rest.  We were now full-timers in our DRV Elite Suites.  I still had 19 months before retirement, and I counted down each day and month.  We located ourselves at Destiny RV Park in Denton.  It's a great park staffed with great people who are very friendly.  We will miss Destiny when it's time to leave.