Nomadic doesn’t mean being constantly in motion. It just means being poised to be mobile. Our own desires for how much motion we’re undergoing in a time period changes often.
Sometimes, we really enjoy moving around every couple of days and exploring lots of new locations. Such as our past summer.
Sometimes it makes sense to make a rapid long distance repositioning, like this time last year.
At other times, we love plopping ourselves down in one location for a bit. We like getting to know what is around us, finding our favorite restaurants, knowing exactly where the gluten free tortillas are in the grocery story and learning to navigate without the aid of a GPS.
We pulled into a spot last week in the Melbourne, FL area and gladly paid a month in advance. When we found out our spot is available through the end of the year, we asked to put a tentative hold on it.
It’s a totally different experience for us to arrive somewhere with the intentions of staying put for a bit. Unlike when we pulled into Austin or St. Louis this last spring and kept extending our stays for several weeks.
It’s a different kind of nesting.
Our thoughts turn to how to best make our RV spot feel more like ours, investing time in community, bus improvement projects and maybe joining a nearby gym. Maybe we’ll even find new primary care physicians to get ourselves re-established with (our prior one quit his practice).
We’ve selected a location that is in walking distance to a lot of things, and have been thoroughly taking advantage of it.
We’ve also been crazy busy attending to some logistics related to the business I run (and will be taking over this year) with my parents.
So it’s been a good thing to be still to focus on work, family time and nesting. We’re very happy to be in nomadic nesting mode.. for now.
I find it curious when Doctors just up and pack it in like that. My wife had a doc a few years back that she thought the world of, and we’re pretty sure she (the doc) joined “Doctors without Borders”, which is an entirely noble endeavour, but kinda sucks for the patients that get left behind.
Enjoy the new digs.
It’s a tough business to be in, and I totally get why doctors get fed up with it and decide to follow other passions.
But yeah, totally sucks for the patients who have formed trusted relationships with their health care provider. I really liked this guy, particularly since he was very nomad-friendly.
Sometimes a little “nesting” is really, really nice. You just have to be careful you don’t end up with 50 plants around your bus, and a little zoo of animals 🙂
Nina
Oh crap… we just brought home our first plant yesterday. This doesn’t bode well. 😀
Nice lookin spot!
Thanks.. unfortunately, that’s not the view out our window. 🙂
Take care of your pops and enjoy the scenery.
Thanks, Dave… quality time with family is the main reason for being here.
Love the beach spot….my kind of place…If you are near Melbourne there use to be a Irish Pub there that had some good food…I think the only one in town but I just don’t remember the name 🙁
I believe you are referring to Meg O’Malleys in downtown Melbourne? Yup, it’s still here 🙂
Sounds like a perfect spot–for now.
Exactly.. it certainly is 🙂
It’s not so bad to be in one spot for a short while when frequently traveling. It does give a sort of tranquility, knowing where you will be the following day 🙂
The wonderful thing about a nomadic life is you can choose when you want that sort of tranquility. It’s definitely what we want right now. But the itch will hit eventually.