a traveling house...

If you remember, in an earlier blog I whined about the hassles of packing up everything and securing it to handle the bumps and jiggles of driving down the road. I questioned WHY anyone would think this was a good idea?!!

Well, besides the obvious of an RV being cheaper lodging than staying in hotels, more weather-proof lodging than tent-camping, and feeling more like "home" when surrounded by your own things, there IS one other big advantage of a moving house...always changing views out the windows!!

For a person like me who not only likes change but NEEDS it, having new views every time we move to a new location saves a lot of hassles. It saves money and energy when compared with rearranging furniture, repainting, re-wallpapering, re-tiling floors, or other forms of changing a "stick house." Maybe this will end up being a good compromise between me (and Anna) who thrive on change and Randy (and Jakob) who get stressed out by it. At least this still looks and feels like "home" while the window views are changing...

As a summary, here are some of the views we have had so far...

The view out our bedroom window (at the back of the RV), looking at the ever changing sights of the Clear Creek in Golden, CO.

The views in Glenwood Canyon, CO were wonderful because there were mountains in every direction we could look. This is out the front door---I kept it open to watch the rosy sunset gradually move across the mountains in that direction.

The views toward the back of the RV at the Spanish Trail RV Park in Moab, Utah were beautiful---facing the red rock wall that runs beside the road for miles. I spent time lounging on the couch, watching out this window as the shadows changed and moved along the wall with the sun's movement.

I must confess, however, that I didn't bother to take any photos of the views out the windows while at the Trailer Village at the Grand Canyon. They had worked hard to angle the sites so we didn't actually look directly into any other RV's windows...but all we could see out our windows was views of other RVs. But...we spent most of our time either at the canyon itself, tiredly eating in the RV, or SLEEPING (to recover from that day's walking and recharge for the next day's exertions :-)