A leap of faith. When we left Oregon, in October 2014, just shy of 1 year ago, we never looked back.  Not even once.  When you feel it in your gut, and you know you’re doing the right thing, you just take that leap of faith and run with it.

341 Days

When I say just shy of one year ago it’s hard to imagine the past year has slipped by with us barely noticing.  I would almost say it wasn’t so if it weren’t for the fact that I placed a daily counter on the blog to mark the day we left Oregon and to give me a point of focus for the passing days.  Today, it reads, 341 days.  Three-hundred-forty-one days.  Where did they go?

Southern Oregon

You know how people say, “If you had told me five years ago that I’d be (fill in the blank), I’d say I don’t think so!”  Well, if you had told me five years ago that not only would we buy and operate a Bed & Breakfast in southern Oregon and after just three years we’d sell said Bed & Breakfast and move across the country. I would have definitely said, “I don’t think so!”  And yet, here we are.

Chapter 4

It’s a new time zone and a new chapter.  I’ve always thought of our lives in chapters; chapters in a really good book.  The start of Chapter 4 finds us ensconced on the east coast building ourselves a nest to call home.

• In 1955 Mr. and Mrs. Jones bought 5.25 acres of land where they built a sweet little brick house.  For the next sixty years – yes, sixty years – they lived in their house. They raised their son and daughter and a few moo cows and chickens as well. It was a good life.  Now both Mr. and Mrs. are living in nursing homes. Mr. and Mrs. Jones relied on their daughter, who has memories of roller skating in the basement, to sift through and pack away sixty years of life and memories.  So special was her childhood home, it took their daughter 1 1/2 years to work her way through the process. Eventually, she was ready to place the home on the market.

The Little Brick House

This past June, just seven days after arriving back in the United States and after spending three months abroad, we found that sweet little brick house. We signed on the dotted line and made it our own.  We definitely won’t make sixty years. But, we’ll do our damnedest to fill the house with family, friends, life and memories.

Our front yard!

So what will the pages of Chapter 4 reveal?  Come October we’ll move in to our sweet little brick house just in time to welcome fall, my absolute most favorite time of the year.  There’s a road trip south to Florida in our near future and we plan to make the most of living on the east coast by thoroughly exploring the north eastern states, eastern Canada and Prince Edward Island.

And… drum roll please… there are exciting updates coming to One Road at a Time!  Here’s a hint as to what’s coming!

• “How much do baby boomers love to travel? According to industry research, we spend $157 billion on trips every year and many polls rank travel as our No. 1 leisure activity. Recently, the Preferred Hotel Group teamed up with Harrison Group, a marketing research firm, to learn more about [baby] boomers’ travel preferences… “This generation is passionate about travel and want to have fun, says Lindsey Ueberroth, hotel group president.” And for professionals that are not focusing on this, it will be their mistake.”

My brain is working overtime with possibilities for our site, while we’re looking forward to filling the pages of Chapter 4 with life on the east coast, a new home and upcoming travel plans.  Stay with us as we continue to travel the world… One Road at a Time.

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