One of the very best things about our summer thus far is the number of new friends that we have made in our lighthouse experience! While we were at Cape Lookout we got to meet the Frost’s who are RVing folk from Oregon. Since we moved to Washburne park we have been able to meet the Kay’s, Sartwell’s, Webb’s, as well as all of the volunteer staff at each of the locations. We also got to reconnect with the Bennett’s who we spent time with in Missouri last summer before they sold their home there. We have been fortunate to also develop a great friendship with the Towner’s here and working with them at Hacate.

I have long believed that while the pictures, souvenirs, and memories that we collect as we travel by RV and through our volunteer work, the greatest treasure that we collect is the many friends that we have made along the way. We constantly marvel at the number of friends that we stay in touch with and the wide range of places they are from and diverse lives that they have led. How very fortunate we are to have been able to do what we do for so many years. This life is given us so many experience that we would only have dreamed of, had we not experienced life on the road!

I am sometimes totally amazed by how fortunate we are and by the blessed life that we seem to lead. As I look back to the poor farm family that I came from and yet we had so very much that has value far beyond money, I frequently thank my parents for having taught me to enjoy so much of nature and things which cost nothing at all. Dad was my inspiration for choosing this life and he instilled in me the courage to be different and to do things my way. My only regret is that he could not have lived a few more years to see us head out on the road, to live a lifestyle that he had long desired!