PACKING AND PREPARING
We are in the process of deciding what to keep, what to donate, and what to toss.  Here's our donation pile from this week

 I thought it would be difficult to "purge" the things we have collected over the last 30 years that we lived in our current home.  However, I am feeling lighter and have a sense of liberation from all the "stuff".  I am keeping the things that have memories--photos, memorabilia that we collected on some of our trips--but the other things I am gladly selling on virtual garage sale sites, giving away to relatives and friends, donating, or tossing.  You can only keep so much in a 35 foot RV, so I keep our end goal in mind:  going on the road!

George is preparing a place to keep our RV when we spend some time at our place in Arkansas.  He cut down a tree (see video below) with our friend, Patrick, and laid some stone down during our last trip to Arkansas.  Patrick will install 50 amp service, and then we'll be set.

Here's the designated spot in Arkansas for our 5th wheel:

This is our view of Bull Shoals Lake from our property in Arkansas: