May 21, Wednesday – Reflections

I have slowly adjusted to being back home in La Conner. Its taken many days to settle the struggle of: Am I sleeping in my RV in Florida and dreaming that I’m home in La Conner, or am I in La Conner asleep dreaming that I’m on a road trip in an RV? Being in the tiny house behind Joan’s place on the hill in La Conner convinced me that indeed I was back here for real. It was when I went to my house in Shelter Bay that things got very confusing because here was my space. When I left eleven weeks ago, I didn’t remove my personal effects from the house when the renter moved in. So when I unlocked the door, there were my pictures and photographs on the walls and the cooking utensils in the kitchen. My mind went “Where Am I???”
Affirmation is coming from friends by asking, “So how is your trip going?” If no one asked that question, then the reality of being on a road trip would have surely been in doubt. (The blog also helps me know what state of reality I’m in.)
With that resolved another reality has plunked down right beside me. A barrel of oil has topped $132. And articles are appearing on how the market for recreational vehicles has dropped. Here sits Ronny front and center of both. Oh, my, we just keep moving ahead and hope that the Circle Tour will survive. I budgeted the tour at 14,000 miles at $4/gallon at 10 miles/gallon. I figured it would cost around $6,000 for fuel.
On the flat pulling the VW Snee-Oosh gets 8.6 miles to the gallon as read out by my on-board computer as real time readings. If I have a tail wind, the mpg goes up to 9.6; if I have a head wind, it drops to 7.6. Also I can vary my speed by watching the mpg screen and drive with the best readout.
When I left Jacksonville, Florida last week, I was paying $3.69 per gallon (about the same price here at Costco). So I’m ahead in my budgeting in some areas such as price of gas, but behind in others such as mpg. So I just “Keep on Truckin’” (thanks, Crumb).
The weather while in La Conner has been the mix it’s well known for at a ratio of 3 to 1 – three days of rain to one day of sun. It’s raining now on my last day here at home. Tomorrow will bring a change both in weather and in place.