Mind-Boggling Homelessness 

Yes, being homeless is a mind-boggling experience. Katherine and I have now carried that title since the 20th of January, not even a month but it is going well so far. No mortgage, no handyman needed to fix one thing or another, no home insurance, no landscaping to maintain and no utility bills or HOA fees. Of course there are new expenses, we are in our second Air B&B. These places aren't cheap but we will find new and cheaper ways to live in the near future, perhaps in another country. There are many countries that welcome American retirees and their cost of living is much less.

 

 There are some 770,000 homeless people in the United States. most caused by a lack of affordable housing, poverty and unemployment. We are not like those people, and we don't pretend to be. We attach that title to ourselves lightly and with no desire to diminish the situations the truly homeless find themselves in. We have resources that give us an advantage. We wish we knew how to help those individuals with their homelessness.

 

Another good side of being homeless is you can keep moving. This place we are now residing provides everything we need and more. Yes, it's kind of small and the queen bed is in what would be normally called the living room or family room, so is the comfy couch, the TV and other furniture.The kitchen is good size and well outfitted with adequate space for two or three to eat. Outside the front door is a large covered patio. It is quiet, so quiet you can hear yourself think. That wasn't true in Green Valley, there are no trucks, no freeway, It's quiet. 

 

The road in and out of here is gravel, well in some spots it's hard packed dirt but much of it is washboard meaning 10 miles an hour to traverse the two miles to the paved road and of course to get back in here. Our first day here we made that two mile trip out and drove the 50 miles or so to Sierra Vista, a pretty town of around 45,000 inhabitants with a fairly large military base and the men and woman of the army. The purpose of our trip was to visit the nearest Safeway and get provisions for a couple of weeks.

 

Then yesterday we took a drive of about 100 miles to a mind-boggling place. The rock formations of The Chiricahuas. Incredible rock formations, unique, I've never seen anything like them. If I could figure out how to put pictures on this blog I would share them but of course everything keeps changing and I have not been able to figure it out yet. Maybe next time.

 

Stan the Man