Day 157 –
I’m still counting the days, because we’ve still living in the bus. Even if it’s parked in the side yard of our house. Marty is already back at work – his beloved brewery took him right back and loaded him up with hours. It’s weird that we aren’t together 24/7. It’s also weird being home – knowing where the best thai food is, the best bottle shop, the library that actually lends us books, etc. Day 178 – Kids are off on their first day of school. It’s supposed to be magic. For the first time EVA – a bus will pick them up from our home. They will eat lunch at school, and then return on that magical orange bus. This is going to be ok, right? I miss them so much already. It’s been ten minutes. Day 192 – We brought the bus to the shop. We’ve had some concerns…I mean, the bus basically had a heart attack in New Mexico. But, imagine that you’re 40 years old, running up hills, in New Mexico; you might have a heart attack too! Anyway, we’re dropping it off for a while. Day 222 – Just picked the bus up. Yes – it was in the shop for a full month! The estimate for all the work it needs was FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS! No – it didn’t get all the work done that it needed! We had the amazing technician address the things that might kill us, in order, until our budget was spent. The rest will have to wait. Day 248 – We know when we can leave. When we came back, we knew we’d be here until December – maybe May. Now we know that we can* leave in December. If we want to. Well, we do…but it’s not that easy. We came back and enrolled the kids in school. So, if we leave again, we have to pull them out, again. We put off some doctor appointments and whatnot, so now we have to catch up. We still haven’t sold our house….so let’s do that. It’s bewildering how quickly we find ourselves entangled in commitments. We ran – long and hard and fast- from this life we had built, but then came right back to it. And we’re in danger of getting stuck again.
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