February 22, 2019. Eureka Springs, AR. The Plan

When Karen and I decided to go "on the road" we had a basic plan. Before we actually bought the motor home in September, 2013, we would load up our Hyundai Santa Fe and head out for what amounted to month-long road trips which took us all over the country, border to border and coast to coast, but always brought us back to Fort Collins, Colorado. It was fun, took us to many new places and whetted our appetite for longer trips, more time in places we enjoyed but always with the intent to return to Fort Collins to plan the next adventure.
But plans change, and sometimes quickly, and that's what happened when we took the motor home out for the first time in December, 2013. We have been back to Fort Collins, with the motor home twice in the past five years; Karen has been back in our car at least one each year for medical appointments and family/friend birthday events, but there has never been an extended motor home return to Colorado. In reality, we have enjoyed being " on the road" while not really putting miles on the motor home. It was February 22, 2018, one year ago today, that we parked in our spot 12 at the Passion Play for our fifth season and we are still here awaiting the start of our sixth season. In that one year we have only moved the motor home forward about ten feet, reset the blocks of wood under our front wheels, and backed up the ten feet to the exact same place and re-leveled the coach to eliminate the self-opening and self-closing of refrigerator and bathroom doors.
It's been a different year; no Florida, no Georgia, no Deep East Texas, no Colorado (for me).
We've seen the Arkansas Fall Colors for the first time, endured some pretty cold Arkansas weather and looking forward to what this season of the Passion Play has in store. Over the next three months some of our friends will be coming back for short-term volunteer stints; in a month there will be sign-ups for seasonal staff positions, cast and crew openings; and then it will be time for opening weekend on April 19-20 and a six month, 84-day performance schedule ending on October 26.
Anyway...........for now..........that's The Plan.

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