Senior Living after RVing

[Bethers]

I just may have to take a drive tomorrow to the hill country and check out that property!

I'd come visit you!

[retiredhappy]

I bought a book entitled "Final Exit". It gave me a lot of food for thought as Texas is NOT an assisted suicide state. To me, the worst thing I can imagine is to linger in pain or helpless for a long time. I would rather die than go into any kind of a home. I do have family BUT they have busy lives and changing my diapers is abhorrent to me. I don't want to be a burden. I have a living will that is very specific about how much I want done to keep me going. I've told my daughter who to contact to take Sophie and Baxter (she volunteered) if anything happens to me. Frankly I can't imagine surviving without being able to snuggle with my furbabies.

[Cudedog]

Frankly I can't imagine surviving without being able to snuggle with my furbabies.

If and when the time comes that I can no longer have dogs, I want it to be over. Period.

This has been the most interesting thread that I have ever read on wRV, or just about anywhere else for that matter. Lots of food for thought here, and it has got me to thinking.

I was never much interested in the RV thing when I was younger, but as I entered my 60's it seemed something fun to do. I have a big interest in volcanoes, and I could see that having an RV would be an easy way to travel with my dogs to the various volcanoes in the West, and have a place to stay when I got there.

Now I am not so sure. Is it not possible that the RV lifestyle could be seen as a kind of global metaphor about our attempt to "drive away" and escape what is inevitable for all of us? As though any of us could escape it. . .

I have two beautiful and wonderful children that came to me relatively late in my life (40's). My daughter, 20-something, has stated rather blithely that she would take care of me "when I get old" (I found this rather charming, at the time - she doesn't yet see me as "old").

Since I am now of the age when things can Suddenly Go South (and not for the winter. . .) the thought of my beautiful, vibrant, newly-married, 20-something daughter being saddled with the withering husk of "me" for the next 30 years or so (my father lived to be 97) fills me with horror.

That and no dogs = Hell on Earth.

I'll be looking for the "Exit" door.

Anne

[BirdbyBird]

If driving away in our RVs is a global metaphor....maybe it is that many of us have arrived at a point in our lives that we don't have to be as "dependable" and "responsible" for everyone else all the time, either at work or at home and we are now trying to explore the world that we always read and thought about on our own terms.

As Pat's (dpf) post in the Campfire thread reminds us....none of us know when our expiration date will come around. I also heard this weekend that one of the women I met through showing dogs...she was about 60....had a major and unexpected stroke on Friday and passed away Saturday morning. I say plans are helpful, but play with "jello" and go where it takes you for as long as you can!

[sharon]

I just may have to take a drive tomorrow to the hill country and check out that property!

I'd come visit you!

Me too!!!! I'd even pay rent....

[Bethers]

Me too!!!! I'd even pay rent....

Oh, definitely! That's one of my fav places in the spring and fall!

[Redwahine]

Me too!!!! I'd even pay rent....

Oh, definitely! That's one of my fav places in the spring and fall!

Me three or four!! Only four hookups probably plenty room for boondockers too!

[Liz]

Looks like you'll have a crowd in no time, Vicki.

[BirdbyBird]

The plan will be ...if she can cover taxes and the mortgage.

[Yakn1]

I haven't even been up to look yet, and already have a full house!

[sharon]

I haven't even been up to look yet, and already have a full house!

Better get busy Missy, or we may be lining up on your street in SA demanding a parking spot!

[Yakn1]

Better get busy Missy, or we may be lining up on your street in SA demanding a parking spot! [/quote]

[Bethers]

What Sharon said! If I was looking to buy, I'd be looking. But I'm not close enough even if I wanted it.

[Yakn1]

Did a Google satellite map... The areas around it look really trashy, of course that may not be the case now. Maybe this week...

[Bethers]

Did a Google satellite map... The areas around it look really trashy, of course that may not be the case now. Maybe this week...

Maybe that would be a better purchase - as we might all decide it's not the place to be lol