Sell, donate, give away.....lighten the load

On the road again - only staying in Phx at Aaron's to have a garage sale with him and We cleaned out, compressed, were ruthless in throwing out "stuff - yet Aaron had a collection of wonderful, exotic furniture to sell. His neighborhood is an old established one - Arcadia, in Phx/Scottsdale and near an enclave of Hispanics. In two days we sold almost all of his stuff, most of our's and then some - mainly to Hispanics who peeled off $100 bills - off of money rolls. This was a better sale than those we held in Fountain Hills - go figure. At the end of the sale, I was exhausted from bargaining and Robert was just exhausted. We had managed to downsize: do the math - three years, if we last that long cruising x $79/mo, for stuff? We can afford to buy this "stuff" with the money we saved. Then, we get back to the boat and guess what? Rented another smaller locker near the boat

in order to hang up winter clothes. We had put them all in storage as Mexico is the tropics. Again, go figure. But our skis, bikes and possibly our kayaks will fit in there.

Then there is Bishop Jake who is famous world wide. he was featured with a bishop's mitre and cassock in a calendar. He danced and snorted all during our "unbirthday dinner".

The neat thing about unbirthdays is we can just celebrate being with friends such as Shelley and Doug, Eileen & Kenny, and Debbie and ...who? Where is Harold? Falling on his head somewhere while we drink champagne and watch Jake dance. I love it when Shelley explains all of us as family - which we have become. This isn't the family where you go when you have nowhere else to go -but the family that rejoices in your triumphs and mourns in your losses and sorrows. This is the family you would travel miles and miles to be there with for any old occaision. We really love you guys.

The elegant garage sale- it is telling that all that stuff was in storage!

And we are back on the road for Thanksgiving at Bridget and Dave's. On the road again------