A FEW LAUGHS

For the last couple months I have been living my million dollar dream. My dream is to travel all 50 states a little at a time. It may take me several years, but I am not in a hurry. My health is good and I earn money with my home based business on the road. My home based business travels with me. It can be done anywhere anytime.

My husband and I are in the process of purchasing an RV. We have not decided on what type yet, so we are currently traveling by pickup truck and tent. I know it is hard to believe at 64 I would be sleeping on an air mattress inside of a tent and eating off paper plates. I love it. I do not have to wash dishes!

I am grateful I am healthy, alive, walking, talking and seeing this beautiful world. I have seen some beautiful places. Our travels have been happy times.

When living in a tent the world on the outside and inside is your home. Since I was a young girl I have been coloring my hair. It has been every color in the rainbow. When you color your hair while you are living in a house no one sees the process except your family members.

One day recently I decided I could not wait another day without coloring my hair. So if you can picture this…..I was sitting at the picnic table in my screen tent. The screen tent became my beauty salon. My husband helps me color my hair. He has on plastic gloves mixing the color getting ready to separate and color my hair. He has been coloring my hair for years, so he has it down to a science. The rest is wait and see. So for 40 minutes I wait for the color to take so I can wash the color out of my hair. And it came out just as good as any beauty parlor has ever done it!

It is a funny thing when you are living in a campground. People walk over to introduce themselves and say “hello.” Imagine this…a very nice man walks up to our camp site to say “hello.” I had no place to hide, so I just said “hello.” I caught him off guard, but he started laughing. He is a full timer. A full timer is someone who lives and travels the road 12 months of the year. He has seen a lot over the years. He has been on the road for 4 years. I have met families who have been traveling for 10-12 years. They love it.

The picnic table we used to color my hair is my all purpose table. I only have one. It is used has our office to send and receive e-mails, write letters, cooking, putting on makeup, playing games and you name it.

I must laugh and be grateful for the beautiful sky, my dry tent, great sleeping bag, great husband, and I could go on and on.

Right now we are in VA, but we leave tomorrow for Lake Placid. My son and his sister-in-law are particating in the IronMan race. They will swim 2.4 miles, run 110 miles, and ran a marathon 26.2 miles. I am going to watch and cheer him on. That is one of his million dollar dreams. [This is being posted after the race and I am pleased to report that both of them finished through some of the worst weather they have had in the ten years of running the race. It rained from the time they finished the swim until just before my son finished 15 hours later. His sister-in-law finished an hour and a half before him.]

My home based business allows me the time and money to travel and see and enjoy the world. This whole experience has been life changing. Ten years ago I was working 50/60 hours per week selling yellow pages. My time was not my own. I worked all the time. I took my paperwork with me wherever I went.

All of our kids think their parents have lost our minds. I wish I had learned about a home based business years ago. I would have fired my boss and hit the road.

Linda Baccus
BraveHeart Women Global Community, Founding Member

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