For the last six weeks, we have been bouncing around South Georgia and Florida. We have enjoyed some quality time with family, catching up with friends, and just being "home". Our busy season is soon approaching, so we have loved being able to have a little breather before one more month out west and then things ramping up during the truck buying season.
On the 9th, we'll leave for a two and half day trip back out to Colorado. We're super excited to join some from friends from NC and FL for a bucket list concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater on the 15th. From there we'll finish up our customer meetings in Colorado and then head back east for the winter. We'll have a stop in Alabama having warranty work done on the coach before heading back to GA/Fl for the holidays.
We're currently planning to move out of our house after the first of the year, and finding a long term renter for it. The biggest challenge with that is that we haven't been able to find a place to stay in the RV while we're down there. I'm sure that something will come available but that may leave us spending more time in GA over the winter than we'd planned on. The only downside with that we won't have time to reconnect with our church family like we had hoped to do.
We have loved our travels this year but have missed being actively engaged in our church community, so we had looked forward to having a few months down there to get reconnected before heading back out on the road again next spring. We loved the Northwest so much that it's tempting to just head back out there next year, but we have lots of folks to visit in the North and North East, so ultimately we'll probably head in that direction.
There's a lot of logistics to figure out with travel plans, finding a spot in Florida, and where we're going next year, so we're leaning heavily on God to show us the way. He's already provided with us an employee, our dear friend, Gwen, to manage our Florida operations which is going to be a major help. We'd been vacillating on whether or not to go to Fl in December or January to move out of the house, and just last night, a friend from church sent a message saying she and her new husband need a place to live for the month of December. So, He certainly helped us narrow in on January for the move.
The eight months we were out on the road this year meeting customers was an unbelievably educating experience and we feel so blessed to have been able to meet so many customers and peers in the industry!