Sunday, May 30, 2004
Another Big Sale...& Plan "B"
After a very short discussion, Mark and I decided not to try the flea market again. We'll have as many yardsales as we can between now and the last few weeks we're in our house. Then we'll call in an auctioneer to finish off the furniture and anything else we haven't sold.
This past week we had another huge yardsale. And in true Ohio fashion we managed to get rained on two of the three days of the sale! But we did manage to sell off a huge amount of the smaller stuff we've accummulated, plus most of the things donated to the sale by friends and family.
I'll be graduating from the apprenticeship on June 19th...Yay!! Ater 4 years, I'll be a full-fledged journeyman heavy equipment operator. We've decided to move out of our rental house by the end of July if at all possible. We'll use the rest of the time after that to finish our sales and to do some remaining wood trim in the RV. Plus, Mark wants to build wooden boxes to store his RC plane and the telescope.
Since we still haven't had any calls from the Union on jobs, we figure it's best to move out of the house and into a campground as soon as possible so we can stop spending our savings for rent and utilities. We can live for hundreds of dollars cheaper in an RV park. If the Union doesn't come through with some jobs soon, we'll probably take other jobs for the remainder of this summer and fall to augment our travel money and avoid spending our savings.
And then we'll be off on the road following Plan B, which is that we'll have to do some workcamping or find other places to work for few months to finance our travel plans. Either way, we're ready to get out of Ohio...and the rain...and the lack of work. We talked to a man the other day who lives in Las Vegas and he told us that Union heavy equipment operators have no trouble getting work in Vegas. Since it's someplace we've both wanted to visit, and we're heading Southwest anyway, we may just mosey on out there and see what we can see.
We are still excited about our plans to give up our stick-n-brick existence for a fulltime RV'ing lifestyle. We are a little bit bummed that after three years of planning, the bottom seems to have fallen out of the job market, but that would happen no matter what kind of house we lived in. At least with a motorhome, we can travel to places where there is more work and stay in the comfort of our own home at the same time!
This past week we had another huge yardsale. And in true Ohio fashion we managed to get rained on two of the three days of the sale! But we did manage to sell off a huge amount of the smaller stuff we've accummulated, plus most of the things donated to the sale by friends and family.
I'll be graduating from the apprenticeship on June 19th...Yay!! Ater 4 years, I'll be a full-fledged journeyman heavy equipment operator. We've decided to move out of our rental house by the end of July if at all possible. We'll use the rest of the time after that to finish our sales and to do some remaining wood trim in the RV. Plus, Mark wants to build wooden boxes to store his RC plane and the telescope.
Since we still haven't had any calls from the Union on jobs, we figure it's best to move out of the house and into a campground as soon as possible so we can stop spending our savings for rent and utilities. We can live for hundreds of dollars cheaper in an RV park. If the Union doesn't come through with some jobs soon, we'll probably take other jobs for the remainder of this summer and fall to augment our travel money and avoid spending our savings.
And then we'll be off on the road following Plan B, which is that we'll have to do some workcamping or find other places to work for few months to finance our travel plans. Either way, we're ready to get out of Ohio...and the rain...and the lack of work. We talked to a man the other day who lives in Las Vegas and he told us that Union heavy equipment operators have no trouble getting work in Vegas. Since it's someplace we've both wanted to visit, and we're heading Southwest anyway, we may just mosey on out there and see what we can see.
We are still excited about our plans to give up our stick-n-brick existence for a fulltime RV'ing lifestyle. We are a little bit bummed that after three years of planning, the bottom seems to have fallen out of the job market, but that would happen no matter what kind of house we lived in. At least with a motorhome, we can travel to places where there is more work and stay in the comfort of our own home at the same time!
